New American Standard Bible 1995
Nahum 3:19
19There is 1no relief for your breakdown, Your 2wound is incurable. All who hear 3about you Will 4clap their hands over you, For on whom has not your evil passed continually?
Nahum 3:19 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)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?
- New International Version (NIV)Nothing can heal you; your wound is fatal. All who hear the news about you clap their hands at your fall, for who has not felt your endless cruelty?
- English Standard Version (ESV)There is no easing your hurt; your wound is grievous. All who hear the news about you clap their hands over you. For upon whom has not come your unceasing evil?
- New King James Version (NKJV)Your injury has no healing, Your wound is severe. All who hear news of you Will clap their hands over you, For upon whom has not your wickedness passed continually?
Context of Nahum 3:19
17Your guardsmen are like the swarming locust. Your marshals are like hordes of grasshoppers Settling in the stone walls on a cold day. The sun rises and they flee, And the place where they are is not known. 18Your shepherds are sleeping, O king of Assyria; Your nobles are lying down. Your people are scattered on the mountains And there is no one to regather them. There is no relief for your breakdown, Your wound is incurable. All who hear about you Will clap their hands over you, For on whom has not your evil passed continually?
Read all of Nahum 3Nahum 3:19 word by word
אֵין־כֵּהָ֣ה לְשִׁבְרֶ֔ךָ נַחְלָ֖ה מַכָּתֶ֑ךָ כֹּ֣ל׀ שֹׁמְעֵ֣י שִׁמְעֲךָ֗ תָּ֤קְעוּ כַף֙ עָלֶ֔יךָ כִּ֗י עַל־מִ֛י לֹֽא־עָבְרָ֥ה רָעָתְךָ֖ תָּמִֽיד׃Read the interlinear
- Thereאַ֫יִן'ayin · nothingH369
- reliefכֵּהָהkêhâh · easingH3545
- for your breakdownשֶׁ֫בֶרsheber shêber · breakingH7667
- woundמַכָּהmakkâh makkeh · woundH4347
- is incurableחָלָהchâlâh · be weak: grievedH2470
- Allכֹּלkôl kôl · allH3605
- who hearשָׁמַעshâma‛ · to hear: hearH8085
- aboutשֵׁ֫מַעshêma‛ · reportH8088
- clapתָּקַעtâqa‛ · to blowH8628
- handsכַּףkaph · palmH3709
- overעַל‛al · uponH5921
- For on whomמִיmîy · who?H4310
- passedעָבַר‛âbar · to passH5674
- continuallyתָּמִידtâmîyd · continuallyH8548
Cross-references for Nahum 3:19
- Jeremiah 30:13There is no one to plead your cause; No healing for your sore, No recovery for you.
- Jeremiah 46:11Go up to Gilead and obtain balm, O virgin daughter of Egypt! In vain have you multiplied remedies; There is no healing for you.
- Ezekiel 30:21“Son of man, I have broken the arm of Pharaoh king of Egypt; and, behold, it has not been bound up for healing or wrapped with a bandage, that it may be strong to hold the sword.
- Micah 1:9For her wound is incurable, For it has come to Judah; It has reached the gate of my people, Even to Jerusalem.
- 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.
- Jeremiah 10:22The sound of a report! Behold, it comes-- A great commotion out of the land of the north-- To make the cities of Judah A desolation, a haunt of jackals.
- Job 27:23Men will clap their hands at him And will hiss him from his place.
- Isaiah 14:8Even the cypress trees rejoice over you, and the cedars of Lebanon, saying, ‘Since you were laid low, no tree cutter comes up against us.’
- Lamentations 2:15All who pass along the way Clap their hands in derision at you; They hiss and shake their heads At the daughter of Jerusalem, “Is this the city of which they said, ‘The perfection of beauty, A joy to all the earth’?”
- Ezekiel 25:6For thus says the Lord God, “Because you have clapped your hands and stamped your feet and rejoiced with all the scorn of your soul against the land of Israel,
- Revelation 18:20Rejoice over her, O heaven, and you saints and apostles and prophets, because God has pronounced judgment for you against her.”
- Nahum 2:11Where 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?
- Isaiah 10:6I send it against a godless nation And commission it against the people of My fury To capture booty and to seize plunder, And to trample them down like mud in the streets.
- Isaiah 37:18Truly, O Lord, the kings of Assyria have devastated all the countries and their lands,
- Revelation 13:7It was also given to him to make war with the saints and to overcome them, and authority over every tribe and people and tongue and nation was given to him.
- Revelation 17:2with whom the kings of the earth committed acts of immorality, and those who dwell on the earth were made drunk with the wine of her immorality.”
Commentaries on Nahum 3:19
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 19There is no healing of thy bruise - Thou shalt never be rebuilt. All that hear the bruit of thee - The report or account. Shall clap the hands - Shall exult in thy downfall. For upon whom hath not thy wickedness passed - Thou hast been a universal oppressor, and therefore all nations rejoice at thy fall and utter desolation. Bp. Newton makes some good remarks on the fall and total ruin of Nineveh. "What probability was there that the capital city of a…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 19There is no healing - (literally, “dulling”) of thy bruise It cannot be softened or mitigated; and so thy wound is grievous (literally, sick), incurable, for when the wound ever anew inflames, it cannot be healed. The word, bruise, is the more expressive, because it denotes alike the abiding wound in the body Leviticus 21:19, and the shattering of a state, which God can heal Psalm 60:4; Isaiah 30:26, or which may be great, incurable Jeremiah 30:12. When…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 8-19Verses 8-19 Strong-holds, even the strongest, are no defence against the judgments of God. They shall be unable to do any thing for themselves. The Chaldeans and Medes would devour the land like canker-worms. The Assyrians also would be eaten up by their own numerous hired troops, which seem to be meant by the word rendered "merchants." Those that have done evil to their neighbours, will find it come home to them. Nineveh, and many other cities, states…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 19Nineveh deserved destruction, not healing. Although God showed patience with Nineveh in Jonah’s time (Jonah 3:10), the Assyrians returned to cruelty. They would face the consequences of their evil actions (see Proverbs 11:16–19; Isaiah 66:5–6; Hosea 8:7). Those who suffered under Assyria’s cruelty would welcome this message with joy.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1919. bruit--the report. clap the hands--with joy at thy fall. The sole descendants of the ancient Assyrians and Babylonians in the whole country are the Nestorian Christians, who speak a Chaldean language [Layard]. upon whom hath not thy wickedness passed continually?--implying God's long forbearance, and the consequent enormity of Assyria's guilt, rendering her case one that admitted no hope of restoration.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Nahum 3
- 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
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