Nahum 2:10

Nahum 2:10 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)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.
• New International Version (NIV)She is pillaged, plundered, stripped! Hearts melt, knees give way, bodies tremble, every face grows pale.
• New King James Version (NKJV)She is empty, desolate, and waste! The heart melts, and the knees shake; Much pain is in every side, And all their faces are drained of color.
• New Living Translation (NLT)Soon the city is plundered, empty, and ruined. Hearts melt and knees shake. The people stand aghast, their faces pale and trembling.

Context of Nahum 2:10

8Nineveh is like a pool whose waters run away. "Halt! Halt!" they cry, but none turns back. 9Plunder the silver, plunder the gold! There is no end of the treasure or of the wealth of all precious things. Desolate! Desolation and ruin! Hearts melt and knees tremble; anguish is in all loins; all faces grow pale! 11Where is the lions' den, the feeding place of the young lions, where the lion and lioness went, where his cubs were, with none to disturb? 12The lion tore enough for his cubs and strangled prey for his lionesses; he filled his caves with prey and his dens with torn flesh.

Nahum 2:10 word by word

בּוּקָ֥ה וּמְבוּקָ֖ה וּמְבֻלָּקָ֑ה וְלֵ֨ב נָמֵ֜ס וּפִ֣ק בִּרְכַּ֗יִם וְחַלְחָלָה֙ בְּכָל־מָתְנַ֔יִם וּפְנֵ֥י כֻלָּ֖ם קִבְּצ֥וּ פָארֽוּר׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• She is emptyבּוּקָהbûqâh · emptinessH950
• and voidמְבוּקָהmebûqâh · emptinessH4003
• and wasteבָּלַקbâlaq · to wasteH1110
• and the heartלֵבlêb · heartH3820
• meltethמָסַסmâsas · to meltH4549
• and the kneesבֶּ֫רֶךְberek · kneeH1290
• smite togetherפִּיקpîyq · totteringH6375
• and much painחַלְחָלָהchalchâlâh · anguishH2479
• in all loinsמׇתְנַ֫יִםmôthen · loinH4975
• and the facesפָּנֶהpânîym · face ofH6440
• of them all gatherקָבַץqâbats · to gatherH6908
• blacknessפָּארוּרpâ'rûr · glowH6289

Cross-references for Nahum 2:10

• Nahum 3:7And all who look at you will shrink from you and say, "Wasted is Nineveh; who will grieve for her?" Where shall I seek comforters for you?
• Genesis 1:2The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.
• Isaiah 13:19And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the splendor and pomp of the Chaldeans, will be like Sodom and Gomorrah when God overthrew them.
• Isaiah 14:23"And I will make it a possession of the hedgehog, and pools of water, and I will sweep it with the broom of destruction," declares the Lord of hosts.
• Isaiah 24:1Behold, the Lord will empty the earth and make it desolate, and he will twist its surface and scatter its inhabitants.
• Isaiah 34:10Night and day it shall not be quenched; its smoke shall go up forever. From generation to generation it shall lie waste; none shall pass through it forever and ever.
• Jeremiah 4:23I looked on the earth, and behold, it was without form and void; and to the heavens, and they had no light.
• Jeremiah 51:62and say, 'O Lord, you have said concerning this place that you will cut it off, so that nothing shall dwell in it, neither man nor beast, and it shall be desolate forever.'
• Zephaniah 2:13And he will stretch out his hand against the north and destroy Assyria, and he will make Nineveh a desolation, a dry waste like the desert.
• Zephaniah 3:6"I have cut off nations; their battlements are in ruins; I have laid waste their streets so that no one walks in them; their cities have been made desolate, without a man, without an inhabitant.
• Revelation 18:21Then a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone and threw it into the sea, saying, "So will Babylon the great city be thrown down with violence, and will be found no more;
• Joshua 2:11And as soon as we heard it, our hearts melted, and there was no spirit left in any man because of you, for the Lord your God, he is God in the heavens above and on the earth beneath.
• Psalms 22:14I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint; my heart is like wax; it is melted within my breast;
• Isaiah 13:7Therefore all hands will be feeble, and every human heart will melt.
• Daniel 5:6Then the king's color changed, and his thoughts alarmed him; his limbs gave way, and his knees knocked together.
• Isaiah 21:3Therefore my loins are filled with anguish; pangs have seized me, like the pangs of a woman in labor; I am bowed down so that I cannot hear; I am dismayed so that I cannot see.

Commentaries on Nahum 2:10

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 10She is empty, and void, and waste - The original is strongly emphatic; the words are of the same sound; and increase in their length as they point out great, greater, and greatest desolation. ומבלקה ומבוקה בוקה Bukah, umebukah, umebullakah . She is void, empty, and desolate. The faces of them all gather blackness - This marks the diseased state into which the people had been brought by reason of famine, etc.; for, as Mr. Ward justly remarks, "sickness…Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 10She is empty and void and waste - The completeness of her judgment is declared first under that solemn number, Three, and the three words in Hebrew are nearly the same, with the same meaning, only each word fuller than the former, as picturing a growing desolation; and then under four heads (in all seven) also a growing fear. First the heart, the seat of courage and resolve and high purpose, melteth; then the knees smite together, tremble, shake, under…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 10emptied … desolate … laid waste: The Hebrew words here use alliteration (repeating similar sounds) to create a strong effect: buqah umbuqah umbullaqah. This sound pattern emphasizes how complete the destruction was. A similar effect in English would be “devastated, despoiled, and destroyed.”Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1010. Literally, "emptiness, and emptiedness, and devastation." The accumulation of substantives without a verb (as in Na 3:2), the two first of the three being derivatives of the same root, and like in sound, and the number of syllables in them increasing in a kind of climax, intensify the gloomy effectiveness of the expression. Hebrew, Bukah, Mebukah, Mebullakah (compare Is 24:1, 3, 4; Zep 1:15). faces of all gather blackness--(See on Joe 2:6). Calvin…Read the comment

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In the dictionaries

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• Empty
• Hole
• Justle
• Mightily
• Nineveh
• Prophecy
• Rage
• Raven
• Smite

Commentaries on Nahum 2

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings