Nahum 3:1-4

There is no nation that is above the wrath of God. He shows no favoritism and He alone has the final word. God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son to live, die and rise again in glory and gives the gift of eternal life to those who choose to place their hearts into His hands. Nations cannot allow money to be their god.


Nineveh was known throughout the Middle East as a city that excelled in violence and bloodshed. Horses and chariots were instruments of war. Verse 3 describes the horrors of the nation’s war machine, which resulted in countless corpses. Harlotries refers to paganism. Any worship of gods other than the God of Scripture is an act of spiritual prostitution. Nineveh was so adept at pagan practices that the city earned the descriptive title, the mistress of sorceries.

Nahum 3:1-4

3 Woe to the bloody city!


It is all full of lies and robbery.


Its victim never departs.

2 The noise of a whip

And the noise of rattling wheels,

Of galloping horses,

Of clattering chariots!

3 Horsemen charge with bright sword and glittering spear.

There is a multitude of slain,

A great number of bodies,

Countless corpses—

They stumble over the corpses—

4 Because of the multitude of harlotries of the seductive harlot,


The mistress of sorceries,