Nahum 3:7

And it shall come to pass that, all who see thee, shall flee from thee, and shall say, Destroyed is Nineveh! Who will bemoan her?—Whence shall I seek any to comfort thee?

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

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 upon thee abominable filth, and treat thee as foolish,—and set thee as a gazing-stock.

8Art thou better than No-amon, who sat among the Nile-streams, waters round about her,—whose fortress was the sea, from the sea, her wall.

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Cross References

Numbers 16:34And, all Israel who were round about them, fled at their cry,—for they said, Lest the earth swallow us up.

Jeremiah 15:5For who shall have pity upon thee O Jerusalem? And who shall lament for thee? And who shall turn aside, to ask for thy welfare?

Jeremiah 51:41How hath Sheshach, been captured! How hath the praise of all the earth been seized! How hath Babylon become an astonishment among the nations!

Nahum 1:1The oracle, on Nineveh,—the scroll of the vision of Nahum, the Elkoshite.

Revelation 18:10afar off, standing, because of their fear of her torment, saying—Alas! alas! the great city! Babylon, the mighty city! That, in one hour, hath come thy judgment.

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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