Nahum 3:7

It will come about that everyone who looks at you will flee from you and say, 1 'Nineveh is destroyed; who will weep for her?' 1 Where can I find anyone to comfort you?” 1

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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

6I will throw disgusting filth on you and make you vile; I will make you someone that everyone will look at. 1

8Nineveh, are you better than Thebes, that was built on the Nile River, that had water around her, 1 whose defense was the ocean, whose wall was the sea itself? 1

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Cross References

Numbers 16:34All Israel around them fled from their cries. They exclaimed, “The earth may swallow us up also!”

Jeremiah 15:5For who will have compassion for you, Jerusalem? Who will grieve for you? 1

Jeremiah 51:41How Babylon has been captured! So the praise of all the earth is seized. 1 How Babylon has become a ruined place among the nations. 1

Nahum 1:1The declaration about Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum, the Elkoshite. 1

Revelation 18:10They will stand off at a distance, afraid of her torment, saying, 1 “Woe, woe to the great city, 2 Babylon, the powerful city! 1 For in a single hour your punishment has come.”

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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