Nahum 3:7

And it shall come to pass, that all they that see thee shall flee from thee, and say, Laid waste is Nineveh: who will condole with her? whence shall I seek comforters for thee?

Leeser Tanakh

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

6And I will cast abominable filth upon thee, and defile thee, and will render thee a dirt-heap.

8Art thou better than No-amon, that was situated on the rivers, that had water round about her, the rampart of which was the sea, and the walls of which rose out of the sea?

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Cross References

Numbers 16:34And all Israel that were round about them fled at their cry; for they said, Perhaps the earth may swallow us up [also].

Jeremiah 15:5For who will have pity upon thee, O Jerusalem? or who will condole with thee? or who will go aside to ask after thy welfare?

Jeremiah 51:41How is Sheshach captured! and how is conquered the praise of the whole earth! how is Babylon become an astonishment among the nations!

Nahum 1:1The doom of Nineveh, The book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite.

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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