Nahum 3:7

And it has come to pass, || Each of your beholders flees from you, || And has said: Nineveh is spoiled, || Who bemoans for her? From where do I seek comforters for 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

6And I have cast on you abominations, || And dishonored you, and made you as a sight.

8Are you better than No-Ammon, || That is dwelling among brooks? Waters she has around her, || Whose bulwark [is] the sea, waters her wall.

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Cross References

Numbers 16:34and all Israel who [are] around them have fled at their voice, for they said, “Lest the earth swallow us”;

Jeremiah 15:5For who has pity on you, O Jerusalem? And who bemoans for you? And who turns aside to ask of your welfare?

Jeremiah 51:41How Sheshach has been captured, || Indeed, the praise of the whole earth is caught, || How Babylon has been for an astonishment among nations.

Nahum 1:1Burden of Nineveh. The Scroll of the Vision of Nahum the Elkoshite.

Revelation 18:10having stood from afar because of the fear of her torment, saying, Woe, woe, the great city! Babylon, the strong city! Because in one hour your judgment came.

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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