Bible Verses About Nineveh

For ADONAI is restoring the pride of Ya'akov, along with the pride of Isra'el; because plunderers have plundered them and ravaged their vines.

The shields of [Ninveh's] warriors are [dyed] red; the soldiers are wearing scarlet. The steel of the chariots flashes like fire as they prepare for battle. The cypress [spears] are poisoned.

The chariots rush madly about in the streets, jostling each other in the open places; their appearance is like torches, they run here and there like lightning.

The gates of the rivers are opened, and the palace melts away.

Its mistress is stripped and carried away; her handmaids moan, they sound like doves, as they beat their breasts.

Ninveh is like a pool whose water ebbs away. "Stop! Stop!" But none of it goes back.

Plunder the silver! Plunder the gold! There is no end to the treasure, weighed down with precious things.

Woe to the city of blood, steeped in lies, full of prey, with no end to the plunder!

The crack of the whip! The rattle of wheels! Galloping horses, jolting chariots,

cavalry charging, swords flashing, spears glittering - and hosts of slain, heaps of bodies; there is no end to the corpses; they stumble over their corpses.

"Because of the continual whoring of this whore, this alluring mistress of sorcery, who sells nations with her whoring and families with her sorcery;

I am against you," says ADONAI-Tzva'ot. "I will uncover your skirts on your face; I will show the nations your private parts and the kingdoms your shame.

I will pelt you with disgusting filth, disgrace you and make a spectacle of you.

Then all who see you will recoil from you; they will say, 'Ninveh is destroyed!' Who will mourn for her? Where can I find people to comfort you?"

Still she went captive into exile, her infants torn to pieces at every streetcorner. Lots were drawn for her nobles, and all her great men were bound in chains.

You too, [Ninveh,] will be drunk; your senses completely overcome. You too will seek a refuge from the enemy.

All your fortifications will be like fig trees with early ripening figs; the moment they are shaken, they fall into the mouth of the eater.

Look at your troops! They behave like women! Your country's gates are wide open to your foes; fire has consumed their bars.

You had more merchants than stars in the sky. The locust sheds its skin and flies away.

He will stretch out his hand against the north; he will destroy Ashur; he will make Ninveh desolate, as dry as the desert.

Herds will lie down in it, and all kinds of wild animals too - jackdaws and owls will roost on her columns, voices screeching in the windows, desolation on the doorsteps, for its cedarwork is stripped bare.

This is the city, once so joyful, whose people felt themselves secure, who used to say to herself, "I am [the greatest]! I have no rival." What a ruin she has become a place for wild animals to lie down! Everyone passing by her hisses and shakes his fist!

The people of Ninveh will stand up at the Judgment with this generation and condemn it, for they turned from their sins to God when Yonah preached, but what is here now is greater than Yonah.

The people of Ninveh will stand up at the Judgment with this generation and condemn it, for they turned to God from their sins when Yonah preached, and what is here now is greater than Yonah.