Sons of Adam are a vapor, sons of man are an illusion. In balanced scales they go up— altogether they are less than a breath.
Nahum 3:1 - Tree of Life Version Oy , bloody city! Full of deceit, full of plunder. The prey never departs. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Woe to the bloody city! it is all full of lies and robbery; the prey departeth not; Amplified Bible - Classic Edition WOE TO the bloody city! It is full of lies and booty and [there is] no end to the plunder! [Ezek. 24:6, 9, 10; Hab. 2:12.] American Standard Version (1901) Woe to the bloody city! it is all full of lies and rapine; the prey departeth not. Common English Bible Doom, city of bloodshed—all deceit, full of plunder: prey cannot get away. Catholic Public Domain Version Woe to the city of blood, filled with all manner of lies and violence. Crime shall not depart from you: Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Woe to thee, O city of blood, all full of lies and violence: rapine shall not depart from thee. |
Sons of Adam are a vapor, sons of man are an illusion. In balanced scales they go up— altogether they are less than a breath.
At evening time—sudden terror! Before morning, they are no more. This is the reward of those who plunder us and the lot of those who pillage us.
They no longer drink wine with song. Liquor is bitter to those drinking it.
Who gave Jacob to the looter, Israel to the plunderers? Was it not Adonai? Have we not sinned against Him? In His ways they were unwilling to walk and His Torah they did not obey.
Curse, deceive, murder, steal, commit adultery! They practice violence, and bloodshed follows bloodshed.
Where is the lions’ den, the feeding place for young lions— where the lion went for a lion’s cub— with nothing to disturb them?
The lion rips enough for his cubs, strangles prey for his lionesses. Yes, he fills his den with prey, his lair with torn flesh.
Oy to him who builds a city by bloodshed, and establishes a town with injustice!