Nahum 3:7

And it shall be that every one that sees you shall go down from you, and shall say, Wretched Nineve! who shall lament for her? whence shall I seek comfort for her?

LXX2012 (US English)

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 you according to your unclean ways, and will make you a public example.

8Prepare you 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 + 16:34 Gr. saying. they said, Lest the earth swallow us up also.

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

Nahum 1:1The burden of Nineve: the book of the vision of Naum the Elkesite.

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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