Nahum 3:19

No healing is possible for your wounds. Your wounds are severe. 1 Everyone who hears the news about you will clap their hands in joy over you. 1 Who has escaped your constant wickedness?

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There is no healing of thy bruise; thy wound is grievous: all that hear the bruit of thee shall clap the hands over thee: for upon whom hath not thy wickedness passed continually?

In Context

18King of Assyria, your shepherds are asleep; your rulers are lying down resting. 1 Your people are scattered on the mountains, and there is no one to gather them. 1

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Cross References

Isaiah 10:6I send him against an arrogant nation and against the people who bear my overflowing wrath. 1 I order him to take the spoil, to take the prey, and to trample them like mud in the streets. 1

Isaiah 37:11See, you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands by destroying them completely. So will you be rescued?

Jeremiah 10:22The report of news has arrived, “See! It is coming, a great earthquake is coming from the land of the north 1 To make the cities of Judah into ruins, hideouts for jackals.” 1

Jeremiah 30:13There is no one to plead your case; there is no remedy for your wound to heal you. 1

Jeremiah 46:11Go up to Gilead and obtain medicine, virgin daughter of Egypt. 1 It is useless that you put much medicine on yourself. There is no cure for you. 1

Ezekiel 25:6For the Lord Yahweh says this: You have clapped your hands and stamped your feet, and rejoiced with all the contempt within you against the land of Israel.

Matthew Henry on Nahum 3:9-19

The Judgment of Nineveh. ( b. c. 710.) 8 Art thou better than populous No, that was situate among the rivers, that had the waters round about it, whose rampart was the sea, and her wall was from the sea? 9 Ethiopia and Egypt were her strength, and it was infinite; Put and Lubim were thy helpers. 10 Yet was she carried away, she went into captivity: her young children also were dashed in pieces at the top of all the streets: and they cast lots for her honourable men, and all her great men were bound in chains. 11… Read the whole commentary →

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