Nahum often wrote prophecy in the form of poetry. Hebrew poetry uses different kinds of parallelism. Here he continues to describe the destruction of Nineveh. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/writing-poetry]] and [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-parallelism]])
Here the word "blood" represents bloodshed and refers to the people who have committed murder. AT: "the city full of murderers" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metonymy]])
# It is all full of lies
Here the word "lies" is a metonym for those who tell lies. AT: "It is full of liars" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metonymy]])
# the noise of whips and the sound of rattling wheels, prancing horses, and bounding chariots