Nahum 3:1 meaning and explanation
Woe to the city of blood, full of lies, full of plunder, never without prey.
Nahum 3:1, Berean Standard Bible
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Nahum 3 opens the final oracle against Nineveh, the Assyrian capital, and verse 1 pronounces woe on it. The Hebrew word for woe, hoy, is a cry of judgment, and the city is called "of blood" because Assyria built its empire on conquest and cruelty.
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