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Nahum 3:19
19There is no healing for your wound; your injury is fatal. All who hear of your destruction will clap their hands for joy. Where can anyone be found who has not suffered from your continual cruelty?
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 guards and officials are also like swarming locusts that crowd together in the hedges on a cold day. But like locusts that fly away when the sun comes up, all of them will fly away and disappear. 18Your shepherds are asleep, O Assyrian king; your princes lie dead in the dust. Your people are scattered across the mountains with no one to gather them together. There is no healing for your wound; your injury is fatal. All who hear of your destruction will clap their hands for joy. Where can anyone be found who has not suffered from your continual cruelty?
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
Words taken from the KJV.
- no healingכֵּהָהkêhâh · easingH3545
- of thy bruiseשֶׁ֫בֶרsheber shêber · breakingH7667
- thy woundמַכָּהmakkâh makkeh · woundH4347
- is grievousחָלָהchâlâh · be weak: grievedH2470
- all that hearשָׁמַעshâma‛ · to hear: hearH8085
- the bruitשֵׁ֫מַעshêma‛ · reportH8088
- of thee shall clapתָּקַעtâqa‛ · to blowH8628
- the handsכַּףkaph · palmH3709
- over thee: for upon whom hath not thy wickednessרָעָהra‛ râ‛âh · distress: evilH7451
- passedעָבַר‛âbar · to passH5674
- continuallyתָּמִידtâmîyd · continuallyH8548
Cross-references for Nahum 3:19
- Jeremiah 30:13There is no one to help you or to bind up your injury. No medicine can heal you.
- Jeremiah 46:11“Go up to Gilead to get medicine, O virgin daughter of Egypt! But your many treatments will bring you no healing.
- Ezekiel 30:21“Son of man, I have broken the arm of Pharaoh, the king of Egypt. His arm has not been put in a cast so that it may heal. Neither has it been bound up with a splint to make it strong enough to hold a sword.
- Micah 1:9For my people’s wound is too deep to heal. It has reached into Judah, even to the gates of Jerusalem.
- Zephaniah 2:13And the Lord will strike the lands of the north with his fist, destroying the land of Assyria. He will make its great capital, Nineveh, a desolate wasteland, parched like a desert.
- Jeremiah 10:22Listen! Hear the terrifying roar of great armies as they roll down from the north. The towns of Judah will be destroyed and become a haunt for jackals.
- Job 27:23But everyone jeers at them and mocks them.
- Isaiah 14:8Even the trees of the forest— the cypress trees and the cedars of Lebanon— sing out this joyous song: ‘Since you have been cut down, no one will come now to cut us down!’
- Lamentations 2:15All who pass by jeer at you. They scoff and insult beautiful Jerusalem, saying, “Is this the city called ‘Most Beautiful in All the World’ and ‘Joy of All the Earth’?”
- Ezekiel 25:6“This is what the Sovereign Lord says: Because you clapped and danced and cheered with glee at the destruction of my people,
- Revelation 18:20Rejoice over her fate, O heaven and people of God and apostles and prophets! For at last God has judged her for your sakes.
- Nahum 2:11Where now is that great Nineveh, that den filled with young lions? It was a place where people—like lions and their cubs— walked freely and without fear.
- Isaiah 10:6I am sending Assyria against a godless nation, against a people with whom I am angry. Assyria will plunder them, trampling them like dirt beneath its feet.
- Isaiah 37:18“It is true, Lord, that the kings of Assyria have destroyed all these nations.
- Revelation 13:7And the beast was allowed to wage war against God’s holy people and to conquer them. And he was given authority to rule over every tribe and people and language and nation.
- Revelation 17:2The kings of the world have committed adultery with her, and the people who belong to this world have been made drunk by 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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