Y’all must not trust in oppression. Y’all must not vainly hope in robbery. If riches increase, y’all must not set your heart on them.
Nahum 3:1 - Y'all Version Bible Woe to the bloody city! It is all full of lies and robbery—no end to the prey. 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. |
Y’all must not trust in oppression. Y’all must not vainly hope in robbery. If riches increase, y’all must not set your heart on them.
At evening, sudden terror! Before the morning, they are no more. This is the portion of those who plunder us, and the lot of those who rob us.
They will not drink wine with a song. Beer will be bitter to those who drink it.
Who gave Jacob as plunder, and Israel to the robbers? Was it not YHWH, against whom we have sinned? For they would not walk in ʜɪꜱ ways, and they disobeyed ʜɪꜱ law.
There is cursing, lying, murder, stealing, and committing adultery; they break boundaries, and bloodshed causes bloodshed.
The lion tore in pieces enough for his cubs, and strangled prey for his lionesses, and filled his caves with the kill and his dens with prey.
“I am against you!” declares YHWH Almighty. “I will burn her chariots in the smoke, and the sword will devour your young lions; and I will cut off your prey from the earth, and the voice of your messengers will no longer be heard.”
Woe to him who builds a town with blood, and establishes a city by iniquity!