Nahum 3:1
Good News Translation
Doomed is the lying, murderous city, full of wealth to be looted and plundered!

New Revised Standard Version
Ah! City of bloodshed, utterly deceitful, full of booty— no end to the plunder!

Contemporary English Version
Doom to the crime capital! Nineveh, city of murder and treachery,

New American Bible
Ah! The bloody city, all lies, Full of plunder, whose looting never stops!

Douay-Rheims Bible
Woe to thee, O city of blood, all full of lies and violence: rapine shall not depart from thee.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Woe to thee, O city of blood, all full of lies and violence: rapine shall not depart from thee.

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Isaiah 24:9 They shall not drink wine with a song: the drink shall be bitter to them that drink it.

Ezekiel 22:2,3 And thou son of man, dost thou not judge, dost thou not judge the city of blood? . . .

Ezekiel 24:6-9 Therefore thus saith the Lord God: Woe to the bloody city, to the pot whose rust is in it, and its rust is not gone out of it: cast it out piece by piece, there hath no lot fallen upon it. . . .

Habakkuk 2:12 Woe to him that buildeth a town with blood, and prepareth a city by iniquity.

Zephaniah 3:1-3 Woe to the provoking and redeemed city, the dove. . . .

bloody city.

Nahum 2:12 The lion caught enough for his whelps, and killed for his lionesses: and he filled his holes with prey, and his den with rapine.

Isaiah 17:14 In the time of the evening, behold there shall be trouble: the morning shall come, and he shall not be: this is the portion of them that have wasted us, and the lot of them that spoiled us.

Isaiah 42:24 Who hath given Jacob for a spoil, and Israel to robbers? hath not the Lord himself, against whom we have sinned? And they would not walk in his ways, and they have not hearkened to his law.

Hosea 4:2 Cursing, and lying, and killing, and theft, and adultery, have overflowed, and blood hath touched blood.

Context
Judgment Against Nineveh
1Woe to thee, O city of blood, all full of lies and violence: rapine shall not depart from thee.2The noise of the whip, and the noise of the rattling of the wheels, and of the neighing horse; and of the running chariot, and of the horsemen coming up,…
Cross References
Psalm 62:10
Trust not in iniquity, and covet not robberies: if riches abound, set not your heart upon them.

Ezekiel 24:6
Therefore thus saith the Lord God: Woe to the bloody city, to the pot whose rust is in it, and its rust is not gone out of it: cast it out piece by piece, there hath no lot fallen upon it.

Ezekiel 24:9
Therefore thus saith the Lord God: Woe to the bloody city, of which I will make a great bonfire.

Nahum 2:13
Behold I come against thee, saith the Lord of hosts, and I will burn thy chariots even to smoke, and the sword shall devour thy young lions: and I will cut off thy prey out of the land, and the voice of thy messengers shall be heard no more.

Habakkuk 2:12
Woe to him that buildeth a town with blood, and prepareth a city by iniquity.

Nahum 2:13
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