Nahum 3:2 Explained in Context

Verse 1. ¹ Woe to the bloody city! it is all full of lies and robbery; the prey departeth not;

Verse 2. ² The noise of a whip, and the noise of the rattling of the wheels, and of the pransing horses, and of the jumping chariots.

Verse 3. ³ 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:

Verse 4. ⁴ 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.

Verse 5. ⁵ 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.

Verse 6. ⁶ And I will cast abominable filth upon thee, and make thee vile, and will set thee as a gazingstock.

Verse 7. ⁷ 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?