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.
• English Standard Version (ESV)Desolate! Desolation and ruin! Hearts melt and knees tremble; anguish is in all loins; all faces grow 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.

Context of Nahum 2:10

8Though Nineveh was like a pool of water throughout her days, Now they are fleeing; “Stop, stop,” But no one turns back. 9Plunder the silver! Plunder the gold! For there is no limit to the treasure-- Wealth from every kind of desirable object. She is emptied! Yes, she is desolate and waste! Hearts are melting and knees knocking! Also anguish is in the whole body And all their faces are grown pale! 11Where is the den of the lions And the feeding place of the young lions, Where the lion, lioness and lion’s cub prowled, With nothing to disturb them? 12The lion tore enough for his cubs, Killed enough for his lionesses, And filled his lairs 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

• emptiedבּוּקָהbûqâh · emptinessH950
• Yes, she is desolateמְבוּקָהmebûqâh · emptinessH4003
• and wasteבָּלַקbâlaq · to wasteH1110
• Heartsלֵבlêb · heartH3820
• are meltingמָסַסmâsas · to meltH4549
• and kneesבֶּ֫רֶךְberek · kneeH1290
• knockingפִּיקpîyq · totteringH6375
• Also anguishחַלְחָלָהchalchâlâh · anguishH2479
• the wholeכֹּלkôl kôl · allH3605
• bodyמׇתְנַ֫יִםmôthen · loinH4975
• facesפָּנֶהpânîym · face ofH6440
• are grownקָבַץqâbats · to gatherH6908
• paleפָּארוּרpâ'rûr · glowH6289

Cross-references for Nahum 2:10

• Nahum 3:7And it will come about that all who see you Will shrink from you and say, ‘Nineveh is devastated! Who will grieve for her?’ Where will I seek comforters for you?”
• Genesis 1:2The earth was formless and void, and darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was moving over the surface of the waters.
• Isaiah 13:19And Babylon, the beauty of kingdoms, the glory of the Chaldeans’ pride, Will be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.
• Isaiah 14:23“I will also make it a possession for the hedgehog and swamps of water, and I will sweep it with the broom of destruction,” declares the Lord of hosts.
• Isaiah 24:1Behold, the Lord lays the earth waste, devastates it, distorts its surface and scatters its inhabitants.
• Isaiah 34:10It will not be quenched night or day; Its smoke will go up forever. From generation to generation it will be desolate; None will pass through it forever and ever.
• Jeremiah 4:23I looked on the earth, and behold, it was formless and void; And to the heavens, and they had no light.
• Jeremiah 51:62and say, ‘You, O Lord, have promised concerning this place to cut it off, so that there will be nothing dwelling in it, whether man or beast, but it will be a perpetual desolation.’
• Zephaniah 2:13And He will stretch out His hand against the north And destroy Assyria, And He will make Nineveh a desolation, Parched like the wilderness.
• Zephaniah 3:6“I have cut off nations; Their corner towers are in ruins. I have made their streets desolate, With no one passing by; Their cities are laid waste, Without a man, without an inhabitant.
• Revelation 18:21Then a strong 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 not be found any longer.
• Joshua 2:11When we heard it, our hearts melted and no courage remained in any man any longer because of you; for the Lord your God, He is God in heaven above and on 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 me.
• Isaiah 13:7Therefore all hands will fall limp, And every man’s heart will melt.
• Daniel 5:6Then the king’s face grew pale and his thoughts alarmed him, and his hip joints went slack and his knees began knocking together.
• Isaiah 21:3For this reason my loins are full of anguish; Pains have seized me like the pains of a woman in labor. I am so bewildered I cannot hear, so terrified 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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• Nineveh
• Prophecy
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• Raven
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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