Nahum 3:1-3

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

Ruin Imminent and Inevitable

3 Ah! City of bloodshed,

    utterly deceitful, full of booty—
    no end to the plunder!
²The crack of whip and rumble of wheel,
    galloping horse and bounding chariot!
³Horsemen charging,
    flashing sword and glittering spear,
piles of dead,
    heaps of corpses,
dead bodies without end—
    they stumble over the bodies!

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