Nahum 3:7

And it shall be that everyone that sees thee shall go down from thee, and shall say, Wretched Nineveh! who shall lament for her? whence shall I seek comfort for her?

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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 will cast abominable filth upon thee according to thine unclean ways, and will make thee a public example.

8Prepare thee a portion, tune the chord, prepare a portion for Ammon: she that dwells among the rivers, water is round about her, whose dominion is the sea, and whose walls are water.

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Cross References

Numbers 16:34And all Israel round about them fled from the sound of them, for they said, Lest the earth swallow us up also.

Jeremiah 15:5Who will spare thee, O Jerusalem? and who will fear for thee? or who will turn back to ask for thy welfare?

Nahum 1:1The burden 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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