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.
• 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.
• 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 water is draining away. “Stop! Stop!” they cry, but no one turns back. 9Plunder the silver! Plunder the gold! The supply is endless, the wealth from all its treasures! She is pillaged, plundered, stripped! Hearts melt, knees give way, bodies tremble, every face grows pale. 11Where now is the lions’ den, the place where they fed their young, where the lion and lioness went, and the cubs, with nothing to fear? 12The lion killed enough for his cubs and strangled the prey for his mate, filling his lairs with the kill and his dens with the prey.

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 3:7All who see you will flee from you and say, ‘Nineveh is in ruins—who will mourn for her?’ Where can I find anyone to comfort you?”
• Genesis 1:2Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.
• Isaiah 13:19Babylon, the jewel of kingdoms, the pride and glory of the Babylonians, will be overthrown by God like Sodom and Gomorrah.
• Isaiah 14:23“I will turn her into a place for owls and into swampland; I will sweep her with the broom of destruction,” declares the Lord Almighty.
• Isaiah 24:1See, the Lord is going to lay waste the earth and devastate it; he will ruin its face and scatter its inhabitants—
• Isaiah 34:10It will not be quenched night or day; its smoke will rise forever. From generation to generation it will lie desolate; no one will ever pass through it again.
• Jeremiah 4:23I looked at the earth, and it was formless and empty; and at the heavens, and their light was gone.
• Jeremiah 51:62Then say, ‘Lord, you have said you will destroy this place, so that neither people nor animals will live in it; it will be desolate forever.’
• Zephaniah 2:13He will stretch out his hand against the north and destroy Assyria, leaving Nineveh utterly desolate and dry as the desert.
• Zephaniah 3:6“I have destroyed nations; their strongholds are demolished. I have left their streets deserted, with no one passing through. Their cities are laid waste; they are deserted and empty.
• Revelation 18:21Then a mighty angel picked up a boulder the size of a large millstone and threw it into the sea, and said: “With such violence the great city of Babylon will be thrown down, never to be found again.
• Joshua 2:11When we heard of it, our hearts melted in fear and everyone’s courage failed because of you, for the Lord your God is God in heaven above and on the earth below.
• Psalms 22:14I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint. My heart has turned to wax; it has melted within me.
• Isaiah 13:7Because of this, all hands will go limp, every heart will melt with fear.
• Daniel 5:6His face turned pale and he was so frightened that his legs became weak and his knees were knocking.
• Isaiah 21:3At this my body is racked with pain, pangs seize me, like those of a woman in labor; I am staggered by what I hear, I am bewildered by what I 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