Nahum 3:7

Then everyone who sees you will shun you saying, “Nineveh is ruined! But who is going to mourn your loss?” Where should I look to find anyone to comfort you?

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In The King James Version

And it shall come to pass, that all they that look upon thee shall flee from thee, and say, Nineveh is laid waste: who will bemoan her? whence shall I seek comforters for thee?

In Context

6I will throw filth at you. I will treat you with contempt, and make a spectacle of you.

8Are you any better than the city of Thebes on the River Nile, surrounded by water? Water was its defense, water was its wall.

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Cross References

Numbers 16:34When they heard their cries, all the Israelites nearby ran away, shouting, “Watch out! The earth could swallow us too!”

Jeremiah 15:5Who will be sorry for you, Jerusalem? Who will mourn for you? Who will stop to ask you how you are?

Jeremiah 51:41How could it be? Babylon has fallen! The most famous city in the world has been conquered! What a horrible sight Babylon has become to everyone watching!

Nahum 1:1A prophecy about Nineveh: the scroll of the vision that came to Nahum the Elkoshite.

Revelation 18:10Standing off at a distance because they are afraid they will suffer the same agony as her, they say, ‘Disaster, disaster has struck Babylon, the great city! In just one hour your sentence of doom was executed!’

Matthew Henry on Nahum 3:2-8

The Judgment of Nineveh. ( b. c. 710.) 1 Woe to the bloody city! it is all full of lies and robbery; the prey departeth not; 2 The noise of a whip, and the noise of the rattling of the wheels, and of the pransing horses, and of the jumping chariots. 3 The horseman lifteth up both the bright sword and the glittering spear: and there is a multitude of slain, and a great number of carcases; and there is none end of their corpses; they stumble upon their corpses: 4 Because of the multitude of the whoredoms of the… Read the whole commentary →

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