Nahum 2:10

Nineveh is empty and ruined. Everyone's heart melts, everyone's knees strike together, 1 and anguish is in everyone; their faces are all pale. 1

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She is empty, and void, and waste: and the heart melteth, and the knees smite together, and much pain is in all loins, and the faces of them all gather blackness.

In Context

9Take the silver plunder, take the gold plunder, for there is no end to it, 1 to the splendor of all Nineveh's beautiful things. 1

11Where now is the lions' den, the place where the young lion cubs were fed, 1 the place where the lion and lioness walked, with the cubs, where they were afraid of nothing? 1

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Cross References

Genesis 1:2The earth was without form and empty. Darkness was upon the surface of the deep. The Spirit of God was moving above the surface of the waters.

Psalms 22:14I am being poured out like water, 1 and all my bones are dislocated. 1 My heart is like wax; 1 it melts away within my inner parts. 1

Isaiah 13:19Then Babylon, the most admired of kingdoms, the splendor of Chaldean pride, 1 will be overthrown by God like Sodom and Gomorrah. 1

Isaiah 21:3Therefore my loins are filled with pain; 1 pains like the pains of a woman in labor have taken hold of me; 1 I am bowed down by what I heard; I am disturbed by what I saw. 1

Isaiah 34:10It will burn night and day; its smoke will rise forever; 1 from generation to generation it will be a wasteland; no one will pass through it forever and ever. 1

Jeremiah 30:6Ask and see if a man bears a child. 1 Why do I see every young man with his hand on his loins like a woman bearing a child? 1 Why have all their faces become pale? 1

Matthew Henry on Nahum 2:2-11

The Judgment of Nineveh. ( b. c. 710.) 1 He that dasheth in pieces is come up before thy face: keep the munition, watch the way, make thy loins strong, fortify thy power mightily. 2 For the Lord hath turned away the excellency of Jacob, as the excellency of Israel: for the emptiers have emptied them out, and marred their vine branches. 3 The shield of his mighty men is made red, the valiant men are in scarlet: the chariots shall be with flaming torches in the day of his preparation, and the fir trees shall be… Read the whole commentary →

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