Tree of Life Version
Nahum 3:19
19There is no cure for your brokenness, your wound is severe. All who hear the report about you, clap hands over you. For over whom has not passed your constant 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 princes are like locusts, your officials like a locust swarm, camping in the walls on a chilly day. The sun rises, and they are chased away, and where they are is unknown. 18Your shepherds have become drowsy, king of Assyria, your nobles lie down. Your people are scattered on the hills, with no one to gather them. There is no cure for your brokenness, your wound is severe. All who hear the report about you, clap hands over you. For over whom has not passed your constant 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 30:13No one pleads your cause, for there is no remedy for your wound, no healing for you.
- Jeremiah 46:11Go up into Gilead and get balm, O virgin daughter of Egypt. In vain you use many medicines— there is no cure for you.
- Ezekiel 30:21“Son of man, I have broken the arm of Pharaoh king of Egypt. Behold, it has not been bound up to be healed or put in a splint, so that it is wrapped up with a bandage, to grow strong to wield the sword.”
- Micah 1:9For her wounds are incurable. For it has come up to Judah. It has reached the gate of my people— even up to Jerusalem!
- Zephaniah 2:13He will stretch out his hand against the north and devastate Assyria and make Nineveh as a wasteland— dry as a desert.
- Jeremiah 10:22Listen! The sound of a report is coming— a great commotion out of the land of the north— to make the cities of Judah desolate, a haunt of jackals.
- Job 27:23It claps its hands at him in derision, and hisses him out of his place.”
- Isaiah 14:8Even the cypress trees rejoice over you, along with the cedars of Lebanon: “Since you were laid low, no woodcutter comes up against us.”
- Lamentations 2:15All who pass your way clap their hands 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,’ ‘the joy of the whole earth’?”
- Ezekiel 25:6For thus says Adonai Elohim: “Because you have clapped your hands, stomped your feet and rejoiced with all the disdain of your soul against the land of Israel,
- Revelation 18:20Rejoice over her, O heaven, and you kedoshim, emissaries and prophets! For God has judged her condemnation of you!”
- Nahum 2:11Emptiness, desolation, waste! Heart melting, knees buckling, anguish in all the loins, all their faces grown pale!
- Isaiah 10:6I am sending it against an ungodly nation, and against the people of My fury I am commissioning it, to take spoil and plunder, to trample them down like mud in the streets.
- Isaiah 37:18It is true, Adonai, the kings of Assyria have devastated all the countries and their lands,
- Revelation 13:7He was also permitted to make war against the kedoshim and overcome them, and he was given authority over every tribe and people and tongue and nation.
- Revelation 17:2The earth’s kings committed sexual immorality with her, and those who dwell on the earth got 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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