Nahum 3

¹Ey kanlı kent! Bütünüyle yalan ve haksızlıkla doludur; avı el yordamıyla bile aranmayacak kadar ortadadır.

²Kırbaçların sesi, tekerleklerin sarsıntısının gürültüsü, kovalayan atların ve sarsılarak köpüren savaş arabalarının sesi duyuluyor!

³Saldıran süvariler, parıldayan kılıçlar, şimşek gibi çakan silahlar, yaralıların çokluğu ve dehşetli bir ceset yığını! Uluslarının sonu yoktu; fuhuşlarının çokluğundan ötürü kendi bedenlerinde zayıf düşecekler.

⁴Güzel, çekici ve büyülerin lideri olan bir fahişedir o; fuhşuyla ulusları, büyüleriyle halkları satan odur.

⁵İşte, sana karşıyım, diyor Her Şeye Gücü Yeten Rab Tanrı; senin mahremini yüzünün üzerine açacak, uluslara çıplaklığını ve krallıklara onursuzluğunu göstereceğim.

⁶Ve senin pisliklerine göre üzerine iğrenç şeyler fırlatacak, seni kamusal alanda ibretlik bir levha kılacağım.

⁷Ve seni her gören senden uzaklaşacak ve şöyle diyecek: ‘Perişan Nineve! Onun için kim yas tutacak? Onun için teselli edecek birini nereden arayıp bulayım?’

⁸Kendine bir pay hazırla, teli akort et, bir pay hazırla; ey nehirler arasında yaşayan, çevresi sularla kaplı, egemenliği deniz ve surları su olan Ammon!

⁹Etiyopya ve Mısır onun gücüydü, kaçışın ise sonu yoktu; Libyalılar da onun yardımcıları oldular.

¹⁰Yine de o sürgüne gidecek, tutsak düşecek; bebeklerini her sokağın başında yere çalıp ezecekler, saygın kişileri için kuralar atacaklar ve tüm soyluları kelepçelerle zincirlenecek.

¹¹Sen de sarhoş olacaksın ve hor görülüp göz ardı edileceksin; sen de düşman yüzünden kendine bir sığınak arayacaksın.

¹²Bütün kalelerin, gözetleme kuleleri olan incir ağaçları gibidir; eğer sallanırlarsa, doğrudan yiyenin ağzına düşerler.

¹³İşte, içindeki halkın kadınlar gibidir; ülkenin kapıları düşmanlarına açılarak ardına kadar açılacak ve ateş senin kapı sürgülerini yiyip bitirecek.

¹⁴Kuşatma için kendine su çek ve kalelerini güçlendir; balçığa gir, samanların içinde çiğne ve tuğla kalıbından daha güçlü ol!

¹⁵Orada ateş seni yiyip bitirecek, kılıç seni yok edecek; çekirge gibi seni yiyip bitirecek ve tırtıl gibi sayıca çoğalıp hantallaşacaksın.

¹⁶Ticaretini gökteki yıldızlardan daha çok çoğalttın; tırtıl saldırdı ve kanat açıp uçup gitti.

¹⁷Senin karma halkın kanatsız çekirge gibi sıçradı; soğuk günde çitlerin üzerine konan çekirgeler gibi, güneş doğunca sıçrayıp kaçtılar ve yerleri bilinmez oldu; vay hallerine!

¹⁸Çobanların uyukladı, Asur kralı senin güçlü adamlarını uyuttu; halkın dağlara dağıldı ve onları toplayıp kabul edecek kimse yoktu.

¹⁹Senin kırığına şifa yoktur, yaran iltihaplandı; seninle ilgili haberi duyan herkes senin için el çırpacak. Çünkü senin bitmek bilmeyen kötülüğün her zaman kimin üzerine gelmedi ki?

¹Ω πόλις αἱμάτων, ὅλη ψευδής, ἀδικίας πλήρης, οὐ ψηλαφηθήσεται θήρα.

²φωνὴ μαστίγων καὶ φωνὴ σεισμοῦ τροχῶν καὶ ἵππου διώκοντος καὶ ἅρματος ἀναβράσσοντος

³καὶ ἱππέως ἀναβαίνοντος καὶ στιλβούσης ῥομφαίας καὶ ἐξαστραπτόντων ὅπλων καὶ πλήθους τραυματιῶν καὶ βαρείας πτώσεως· καὶ οὐκ ἦν πέρας τοῖς ἔθνεσιν αὐτῆς, καὶ ἀσθενήσουσιν ἐν τοῖς σώμασιν αὐτῶν ἀπὸ πλήθους πορνείας.

⁴πόρνη καλὴ καὶ ἐπίχαρις ἡγουμένη φαρμάκων, ἡ πωλοῦσα ἔθνη ἐν τῇ πορνείᾳ αὐτῆς καὶ λαοὺς ἐν τοῖς φαρμάκοις αὐτῆς.

⁵ἰδοὺ ἐγὼ ἐπὶ σέ, λέγει Κύριος ὁ Θεὸς ὁ παντοκράτωρ, καὶ ἀποκαλύψω τὰ ὀπίσω σου ἐπὶ τὸ πρόσωπόν σου καὶ δείξω ἔθνεσι τὴν αἰσχύνην σου καὶ βασιλείαις τὴν ἀτιμίαν σου.

⁶καὶ ἐπιρρίψω ἐπὶ σὲ βδελυγμὸν κατὰ τὰς ἀκαθαρσίας σου καὶ θήσομαί σε εἰς παράδειγμα,

⁷καὶ ἔσται πᾶς ὁ ὁρῶν σε καταβήσεται ἀπὸ σοῦ καὶ ἐρεῖ· δειλαία Νινευή· τίς στενάξει αὐτήν; πόθεν ζητήσω παράκλησιν αὐτῇ;

⁸ἑτοίμασαι μερίδα, ἅρμοσαι χορδήν, ἑτοίμασαι μερίδα, ᾿Αμμὼν ἡ κατοικοῦσα ἐν ποταμοῖς, ὕδωρ κύκλῳ αὐτῆς, ἧς ἡ ἀρχὴ θάλασσα καὶ ὕδωρ τὰ τείχη αὐτῆς,

⁹καὶ Αἰθιοπία ἰσχὺς αὐτῆς καὶ Αἴγυπτος, καὶ οὐκ ἔστη πέρας τῆς φυγῆς, καὶ Λίβυες ἐγένοντο βοηθοὶ αὐτῆς.

¹⁰καὶ αὐτὴ εἰς μετοικεσίαν πορεύσεται αἰχμάλωτος, καὶ τὰ νήπια αὐτῆς ἐδαφιοῦσιν ἐπ᾿ ἀρχὰς πασῶν τῶν ὁδῶν αὐτῆς, καὶ ἐπὶ πάντα τὰ ἔνδοξα αὐτῆς βαλοῦσι κλήρους, καὶ πάντες οἱ μεγιστᾶνες αὐτῆς δεθήσονται χειροπέδαις.

¹¹καὶ σὺ μεθυσθήσῃ καὶ ἔσῃ ὐπερεωραμένη, καὶ σὺ ζητήσεις σεαυτῇ στάσιν ἐξ ἐχθρῶν.

¹²πάντα τὰ ὀχυρώματά σου συκαῖ σκοποὺς ἔχουσαι· ἐὰν σαλευθῶσι, καὶ πεσοῦνται εἰς στόμα ἔσθοντος.

¹³ἰδοὺ ὁ λαός σου ὡς γυναῖκες ἐν σοί· τοῖς ἐχθροῖς σου ἀνοιγόμεναι ἀνοιχθήσονται πύλαι τῆς γῆς σου, καὶ καταφάγεται πῦρ τοὺς μοχλούς σου.

¹⁴ὕδωρ περιοχῆς ἐπίσπασαι σεαυτῇ καὶ κατακράτησον τῶν ὀχυρωμάτων σου, ἔμβηθι εἰς πηλὸν καὶ συμπατήθητι ἐν ἀχύροις, κατακράτησον ὑπὲρ πλίνθον·

¹⁵ἐκεῖ καταφάγεταί σε πῦρ, ἐξολοθρεύσει σε ρομφαία, καταφάγεταί σε ὡς ἀκρίς, καὶ βαρυνθήσῃ ὡς βροῦχος.

¹⁶ἐπλήθυνας τὰς ἐμπορίας σου ὑπὲρ τὰ ἄστρα τοῦ οὐρανοῦ· βροῦχος ὥρμησε καὶ ἐξεπετάσθη.

¹⁷ἐξήλατο ὡς ἀττέλεβος ὁ σύμμεικτός σου, ὡς ἀκρὶς ἐπιβεβηκυῖα ἐπὶ φραγμὸν ἐν ἡμέρᾳ πάγους· ὁ ἥλιος ἀνέτειλε, καὶ ἀφήλατο, καὶ οὐκ ἔγνω τὸν τόπον αὐτῆς· οὐαὶ αὐτοῖς.

¹⁸ἐνύσταξαν οἱ ποιμένες σου, βασιλεὺς ᾿Ασσύριος ἐκοίμισε τοὺς δυνάστας σου· ἀπῇρεν ὁ λαός σου ἐπὶ τὰ ὄρη, καὶ οὐκ ἦν ὁ ἐκδεχόμενος.

¹⁹οὐκ ἔστιν ἴασις τῇ συντριβῇ σου, ἐφλέγμανεν ἡ πληγή σου· πάντες οἱ ἀκούοντες τὴν ἀγγελίαν σου κροτήσουσι χεῖρας ἐπὶ σέ· διότι ἐπὶ τίνα οὐκ ἐπῆλθεν ἡ κακία σου διαπαντός;

¹O city of blood, wholly false, full of unrighteousness; the prey shall not be handled.

²The noise of whips, and the noise of the rumbling of wheels, and of the pursuing horse, and of the bounding chariot,

³and of the mounting rider, and of the glittering sword, and of the gleaming arms, and of a multitude of slain, and of heavy falling: and there was no end to her nations, but they shall be weak in their bodies

⁴because of the abundance of fornication: [she is] a fair harlot, and well-favoured, skilled in sorcery, that sells the nations by her fornication, and peoples by her sorceries.

⁵Behold, I am against thee, saith the Lord God Almighty, and I will uncover thy skirts in thy presence, and I will shew the nations thy shame, and the kingdoms thy disgrace.

⁶And I will cast abominable filth upon thee according to thine unclean ways, and will make thee a public example.

⁷And it shall be [that] every one that sees thee shall go down from thee, and shall say, Wretched Nineve! who shall lament for her? whence shall I seek comfort for her?

⁸Prepare thee a portion, tune the chord, prepare a portion for Ammon: she that dwells among the rivers, water is round about her, whose dominion is the sea, and whose walls are water.

⁹And Ethiopia is her strength, and Egypt; and there was no limit of the flight [of her enemies]; and the Libyans became her helpers.

¹⁰Yet she shall go as a prisoner into captivity, and they shall dash her infants against the ground at the top of all her ways: and they shall cast lots upon all her glorious [possessions], and all her nobles shall be bound in chains.

¹¹And thou shalt be drunken, and shalt be overlooked; and thou shalt seek for thyself strength because of [thine] enemies.

¹²All thy strong-holds are as fig-trees having watchers: if they be shaken, they shall fall into the mouth of the eater.

¹³Behold, thy people within thee are as women: the gates of thy land shall surely be opened to thine enemies: the fire shall devour thy bars.

¹⁴Draw thee water for a siege, and well secure thy strong-holds: enter into the clay, and be thou trodden in the chaff, make [the fortifications] stronger than brick.

¹⁵There the fire shall devour thee; the sword shall utterly destroy thee, it shall devour thee as the locust, and thou shalt be pressed down as a palmerworm.

¹⁶Thou hast multiplied thy merchandise beyond the stars of heaven: the palmerworm has attacked [it], and has flown away.

¹⁷Thy mixed [multitude] has suddenly departed as the grasshopper, as the locust perched on a hedge in a frosty day; the sun arises, and it flies off, and knows not its place: woe to them!18 Thy shepherds have slumbered, the Assyrian king has laid low thy mighty men: thy people departed to the mountains, and there was none to receive [them].

¹⁹There is no healing for thy bruise; thy wound has rankled: all that hear the report of thee shall clap their hands against thee; for upon whom has not thy wickedness passed continually?