Nahum 3:10

Judgment

⁸ Are you better than Thebes, stationed by the Nile with water around her, whose rampart was the sea, whose wall was the water?

⁹ Cush and Egypt were her boundless strength; Put and Libya were her allies.

Yet she became an exile; she went into captivity. Her infants were dashed to pieces at the head of every street. They cast lots for her dignitaries, and all her nobles were bound in chains.

¹¹ You too will become drunk; you will go into hiding and seek refuge from the enemy.

¹² All your fortresses are fig trees with the first ripe figs; when shaken, they fall into the mouth of the eater!

This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

Compare

BSB: Yet she became an exile; she went into captivity. Her infants were dashed to pieces at the head of every street. They cast lots for her dignitaries, and all her nobles were bound in chains.
KJV: 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.
WEB: Yet was she carried away. She went into captivity. Her young children also were dashed in pieces at the head of all the streets, and they cast lots for her honorable men, and all her great men were bound in chains.
ASV: Yet was she carried away, she went into captivity; her young children also were dashed in pieces at the head of all the streets; and they cast lots for her honorable men, and all her great men were bound in chains.
DARBY: She too was carried away, she went into captivity: her infants 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 with chains.
BLB: Yet she [was] as an exile; she went into captivity; even her infants were dashed to pieces at the head of every street, and over her honored ones they cast lots, and all her great ones were bound in chains.

ÅB: Også det måtte gå i landflyktighet som fange, også dets små barn ble knust på alle gatehjørner, og om dets ærede menn ble det kastet lodd, og alle dets stormenn ble bundet med lenker.
OTB: Likevel ble hun en flyktning,
Hun gikk i fangenskap;
Også hennes små barn ble knust i stykker
Ved hodet av hver gate;
De kastet lodd om hennes ærefulle menn,
Og alle hennes store menn ble bundet med lenker.
B1930: Også det måtte gå i landflyktighet som fange, også dets små barn blev knust på alle gatehjørner, og om dets ærede menn blev det kastet lodd, og alle dets stormenn blev bundet med lenker.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

Isaiah 20:4
so the king of Assyria will lead away the captives of Egypt and the exiles of Cush, young and old alike, naked and barefoot, with bared buttocks—to Egypt’s shame.
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Hosea 13:16
Samaria will bear her guilt because she has rebelled against her God. They will fall by the sword; their little ones will be dashed to pieces, and their pregnant women ripped open.
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Obadiah 1:11
On the day you stood aloof while strangers carried off his wealth and foreigners entered his gate and cast lots for Jerusalem, you were just like one of them.
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Joel 3:3
They cast lots for My people; they bartered a boy for a prostitute and sold a girl for wine to drink.
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Isaiah 13:16
Their infants will be dashed to pieces before their eyes, their houses will be looted, and their wives will be ravished.
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Lamentations 2:19
Arise, cry out in the night from the first watch of the night. Pour out your heart like water in the presence of the Lord. Lift up your hands to Him for the lives of your children who are fainting from hunger on the corner of every street.
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Psalms 137:8
O Daughter of Babylon, doomed to destruction, blessed is he who repays you as you have done to us.
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Isaiah 13:6
Wail, for the Day of the LORD is near; it will come as destruction from the Almighty.
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