Woe to the bloody city! it is all full of lies and robbery; the prey departeth not;
to.
Isaiah 24:9 They shall not drink wine with a song; strong drink shall be bitter …
Ezekiel 22:2,3 Now, you son of man, will you judge, will you judge the bloody city? …
Ezekiel 24:6-9 Why thus said the Lord GOD; Woe to the bloody city, to the pot whose …
Habakkuk 2:12 Woe to him that builds a town with blood, and establishes a city by iniquity!
Zephaniah 3:1-3 Woe to her that is filthy and polluted, to the oppressing city!…
bloody city. Heb. city of bloods. full.
Nahum 2:12 The lion did tear in pieces enough for his whelps, and strangled …
Isaiah 17:14 And behold at evening trouble; and before the morning he is not. …
Isaiah 42:24 Who gave Jacob for a spoil, and Israel to the robbers? did not the …
Hosea 4:2 By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing …
The noise of a whip, and the noise of the rattling of the wheels, and of the pransing horses, and of the jumping chariots.
The horseman lifteth up both the bright sword and the glittering spear: and there is a multitude of slain, and a great number of carcases; and there is none end of their corpses; they stumble upon their corpses:
Because of the multitude of the whoredoms of the wellfavoured harlot, the mistress of witchcrafts, that selleth nations through her whoredoms, and families through her witchcrafts.
the mistress.
Isaiah 23:15-17 And it shall come to pass in that day, that Tyre shall be forgotten …
Isaiah 47:9,12,13 But these two things shall come to you in a moment in one day, the …
Revelation 17:1-5 And there came one of the seven angels which had the seven vials, …
Revelation 18:2,3,9,23 And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great …
Behold, I am against thee, saith the LORD of hosts; and I will discover thy skirts upon thy face, and I will shew the nations thy nakedness, and the kingdoms thy shame.
I am. See on ch.
Nahum 2:13 Behold, I am against you, said the LORD of hosts, and I will burn …
Ezekiel 23:25 And I will set my jealousy against you, and they shall deal furiously …
I will discover.
Isaiah 47:2,3 Take the millstones, and grind meal: uncover your locks, make bore …
Jeremiah 13:22,26 And if you say in your heart, Why come these things on me? For the …
Ezekiel 16:37 Behold, therefore I will gather all your lovers, with whom you have …
Ezekiel 23:29 And they shall deal with you hatefully, and shall take away all your …
Micah 1:11 Pass you away, you inhabitant of Saphir, having your shame naked: …
Habakkuk 2:16 You are filled with shame for glory: drink you also, and let your …
And I will cast abominable filth upon thee, and make thee vile, and will set thee as a gazingstock.
I will cast.
Job 9:31 Yet shall you plunge me in the ditch, and my own clothes shall abhor me.
Job 30:19 He has cast me into the mire, and I am become like dust and ashes.
Psalm 38:5-7 My wounds stink and are corrupt because of my foolishness…
Lamentations 3:16 He has also broken my teeth with gravel stones, he has covered me with ashes.
Malachi 2:2 If you will not hear, and if you will not lay it to heart, to give …
1 Corinthians 4:13 Being defamed, we entreat: we are made as the filth of the world, …
make.
Nahum 1:14 And the LORD has given a commandment concerning you, that no more …
Job 30:8 They were children of fools, yes, children of base men: they were …
Malachi 2:9 Therefore have I also made you contemptible and base before all the …
will set.
1 Kings 9:7,8 Then will I cut off Israel out of the land which I have given them; …
Isaiah 14:16-19 They that see you shall narrowly look on you, and consider you, saying, …
Jeremiah 51:37 And Babylon shall become heaps, a dwelling place for dragons, an …
Zephaniah 2:15 This is the rejoicing city that dwelled carelessly, that said in …
1 Corinthians 4:9 For I think that God has set forth us the apostles last, as it were …
Hebrews 10:33 Partly, whilst you were made a spectacle both by reproaches and afflictions; …
Jude 1:7 Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, …
And it shall come to pass, that all they that look upon thee shall flee from thee, and say, Nineveh is laid waste: who will bemoan her? whence shall I seek comforters for thee?
that all.
Numbers 16:34 And all Israel that were round about them fled at the cry of them: …
Jeremiah 51:9 We would have healed Babylon, but she is not healed: forsake her, …
Revelation 18:10 Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas …
Nineveh.
Nahum 2:9,10 Take you the spoil of silver, take the spoil of gold: for there is …
Jeremiah 51:41-43 How is Sheshach taken! and how is the praise of the whole earth surprised! …
Revelation 18:16-19 And saying, Alas, alas that great city, that was clothed in fine …
who.
Isaiah 51:19 These two things are come to you; who shall be sorry for you? desolation, …
Jeremiah 15:5 For who shall have pity on you, O Jerusalem? or who shall bemoan …
Lamentations 2:13 What thing shall I take to witness for you? what thing shall I liken …
Art thou better than populous No, that was situate among the rivers, that had the waters round about it, whose rampart was the sea, and her wall was from the sea?
thou.
Ezekiel 31:2,3 Son of man, speak to Pharaoh king of Egypt, and to his multitude; …
Amos 6:2 Pass you to Calneh, and see; and from there go you to Hamath the …
populous No. or, nourishing No. Heb. No-amon.
Jeremiah 46:25,26 The LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, said; Behold, I will punish …
Ezekiel 30:14-16 And I will make Pathros desolate, and will set fire in Zoan, and …
that had.
Isaiah 19:5-10 And the waters shall fail from the sea, and the river shall be wasted …
Ethiopia and Egypt were her strength, and it was infinite; Put and Lubim were thy helpers.
Ethiopia.
Isaiah 20:5 And they shall be afraid and ashamed of Ethiopia their expectation, …
Jeremiah 46:9 Come up, you horses; and rage, you chariots; and let the mighty men …
Put.
Genesis 10:6 And the sons of Ham; Cush, and Mizraim, and Phut, and Canaan.
1 Chronicles 1:8 The sons of Ham; Cush, and Mizraim, Put, and Canaan.
Ezekiel 27:10 They of Persia and of Lud and of Phut were in your army, your men …
Ezekiel 30:5 Ethiopia, and Libya, and Lydia, and all the mingled people, and Chub, …
Ezekiel 38:5 Persia, Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them with shield and helmet:
thy helpers. Heb. in thy help.
Yet was she carried away, she went into captivity: her young children also were dashed in pieces at the top of all the streets: and they cast lots for her honourable men, and all her great men were bound in chains.
Thou also shalt be drunken: thou shalt be hid, thou also shalt seek strength because of the enemy.
Thou also. Diodorus relates, that while the Assyrian army were feasting for their former victories, those about Arbaces being informed of their negligence and drunkenness, fell upon them unexpectedly, slew many, and drove the rest into the city.
shalt be drunken.
Nahum 1:10 For while they be entwined together as thorns, and while they are …
Psalm 75:8 For in the hand of the LORD there is a cup, and the wine is red; …
Isaiah 29:9 Stay yourselves, and wonder; cry you out, and cry: they are drunken, …
Isaiah 49:26 And I will feed them that oppress you with their own flesh; and they …
Isaiah 63:6 And I will tread down the people in my anger, and make them drunk …
Jeremiah 25:15-27 For thus said the LORD God of Israel to me; Take the wine cup of …
Jeremiah 51:57 And I will make drunk her princes, and her wise men, her captains, …
thou shalt be hid.
1 Samuel 13:6 When the men of Israel saw that they were in a strait, (for the people …
1 Samuel 14:11 And both of them discovered themselves to the garrison of the Philistines: …
Isaiah 2:10,19 Enter into the rock, and hide you in the dust, for fear of the LORD, …
Hosea 10:8 The high places also of Aven, the sin of Israel, shall be destroyed: …
Amos 9:3 And though they hide themselves in the top of Carmel, I will search …
Micah 7:17 They shall lick the dust like a serpent, they shall move out of their …
Luke 23:30 Then shall they begin to say to the mountains, Fall on us; and to …
Revelation 6:15-17 And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, …
thou also.
Nahum 2:1 He that dashes in pieces is come up before your face: keep the fortification, …
Jeremiah 4:5 Declare you in Judah, and publish in Jerusalem; and say, Blow you …
Jeremiah 8:14 Why do we sit still? assemble yourselves, and let us enter into the …
All thy strong holds shall be like fig trees with the firstripe figs: if they be shaken, they shall even fall into the mouth of the eater.
Behold, thy people in the midst of thee are women: the gates of thy land shall be set wide open unto thine enemies: the fire shall devour thy bars.
Draw thee waters for the siege, fortify thy strong holds: go into clay, and tread the morter, make strong the brickkiln.
Draw.
2 Chronicles 32:3,4,11 He took counsel with his princes and his mighty men to stop the waters …
Isaiah 22:9-11 You have seen also the breaches of the city of David, that they are …
Isaiah 37:25 I have dig, and drunk water; and with the sole of my feet have I …
fortify.
Nahum 2:1 He that dashes in pieces is come up before your face: keep the fortification, …
Isaiah 8:9 Associate yourselves, O you people, and you shall be broken in pieces; …
Jeremiah 46:3,4,9 Order you the buckler and shield, and draw near to battle…
Joel 3:9-11 Proclaim you this among the Gentiles; Prepare war, wake up the mighty …
There shall the fire devour thee; the sword shall cut thee off, it shall eat thee up like the cankerworm: make thyself many as the cankerworm, make thyself many as the locusts.
Thou hast multiplied thy merchants above the stars of heaven: the cankerworm spoileth, and flieth away.
Thy crowned are as the locusts, and thy captains as the great grasshoppers, which camp in the hedges in the cold day, but when the sun ariseth they flee away, and their place is not known where they are.
Thy shepherds slumber, O king of Assyria: thy nobles shall dwell in the dust: thy people is scattered upon the mountains, and no man gathereth them.
Thy shepherds. That is, the rulers and tributary princes, who, as Herodotus informs us, deserted Nineveh in the day of her distress, and came not to her succour. Diodorus also says, that when the enemy shut up the king in the city, many nations revolted; each going over to the besiegers for the sake of their liberty; that the king despatched messengers to all his subjects, requiring power from them to succour him, and that he thought himself able to endure the siege, and remained in expectation of armies which were to be raised throughout his empire, relying on the oracle, that the city would not be taken till the river became its enemy. See on ch.
Nahum 2:6 The gates of the rivers shall be opened, and the palace shall be dissolved.
Exodus 15:16 Fear and dread shall fall on them; by the greatness of your arm they …
Psalm 76:5,6 The stouthearted are spoiled, they have slept their sleep: and none …
Isaiah 56:9,10 All you beasts of the field, come to devour, yes, all you beasts …
Jeremiah 51:39,57 In their heat I will make their feasts, and I will make them drunken, …
O King.
Jeremiah 50:18 Therefore thus said the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, …
Ezekiel 31:3-18 Behold, the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon with fair branches, and …
Ezekiel 32:22,23 Asshur is there and all her company: his graves are about him: all …
nobles. or, valiant ones.
Isaiah 47:1 Come down, and sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon, sit …
Revelation 6:15 And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, …
thy people.
1 Kings 22:17 And he said, I saw all Israel scattered on the hills, as sheep that …
Isaiah 13:14 And it shall be as the chased roe, and as a sheep that no man takes …
There is no healing of thy bruise; thy wound is grievous: all that hear the bruit of thee shall clap the hands over thee: for upon whom hath not thy wickedness passed continually?
no.
Jeremiah 30:13-15 There is none to plead your cause, that you may be bound up: you …
Jeremiah 46:11 Go up into Gilead, and take balm, O virgin, the daughter of Egypt: …
Ezekiel 30:21,22 Son of man, I have broken the arm of Pharaoh king of Egypt; and, …
Micah 1:9 For her wound is incurable; for it is come to Judah; he is come to …
Zephaniah 2:13-15 And he will stretch out his hand against the north, and destroy Assyria; …
healing. Heb. wrinkling. the bruit.
Jeremiah 10:22 Behold, the noise of the bruit is come, and a great commotion out …
shall.
Job 27:23 Men shall clap their hands at him, and shall hiss him out of his place.
Isaiah 14:8-21 Yes, the fir trees rejoice at you, and the cedars of Lebanon, saying, …
Lamentations 2:15 All that pass by clap their hands at you; they hiss and wag their …
Ezekiel 25:6 For thus said the Lord GOD; Because you have clapped your hands, …
Revelation 18:20 Rejoice over her, you heaven, and you holy apostles and prophets; …
upon.
Nahum 2:11,12 Where is the dwelling of the lions, and the feeding place of the …
Isaiah 10:6-14 I will send him against an hypocritical nation, and against the people …
Isaiah 37:18 Of a truth, LORD, the kings of Assyria have laid waste all the nations, …
Revelation 13:7 And it was given to him to make war with the saints, and to overcome …
Revelation 17:2 With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication…
Revelation 18:2,3 And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great …
