Tree of Life Version
Nahum 3:7
7So it will be that all who see you will recoil from you and say, “Nineveh has been ravaged! Who will lament for her?” Where will I find comforters for you?
Nahum 3:7 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)And it shall come to pass, that all they that look upon thee shall flee from thee, and say, Nineveh is laid waste: who will bemoan her? whence shall I seek comforters for thee?
- New International Version (NIV)All 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?”
- English Standard Version (ESV)And all who look at you will shrink from you and say, "Wasted is Nineveh; who will grieve for her?" Where shall I seek comforters for you?
- New King James Version (NKJV)It shall come to pass that all who look upon you Will flee from you, and say, ‘Nineveh is laid waste! Who will bemoan her?’ Where shall I seek comforters for you?”
Context of Nahum 3:7
5Behold, I am against you —it is a declaration of Adonai-Tzva’ot— I will lift your skirts over your face, I will show nations your nakedness and kingdoms your disgrace. 6Yes, I will fling filth on you. I will treat you with contempt and set you up as a spectacle. So it will be that all who see you will recoil from you and say, “Nineveh has been ravaged! Who will lament for her?” Where will I find comforters for you? 8Are you better than No-amon, situated among channels of the Nile, water surrounding her, whose fortress and wall was water ? 9Cush and Egypt were her might—unlimited. Put and Libya were her allies.
Read all of Nahum 3Nahum 3:7 word by word
וְהָיָ֤ה כָל־רֹאַ֙יִךְ֙ יִדּ֣וֹד מִמֵּ֔ךְ וְאָמַר֙ שָׁדְּדָ֣ה נִֽינְוֵ֔ה מִ֖י יָנ֣וּד לָ֑הּ מֵאַ֛יִן אֲבַקֵּ֥שׁ מְנַחֲמִ֖ים לָֽךְ׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
- all they that lookרָאָהrâ'âh · to see: seeH7200
- upon thee shall fleeנָדַדnâdad · to wanderH5074
- from thee, and sayאָמַר'âmar · to sayH559
- Ninevehנִינְוֵהnîynevêh · NinevehH5210
- is laid wasteשָׁדַדshâdad · to ruinH7703
- who will bemoanנוּדnûd · to wanderH5110
- her? whenceאַ֫יִן'ayin · where?H370
- shall I seekבָּקַשׁbâqash · to seekH1245
- comfortersנָחַםnâcham · to be sorry: comfortH5162
Cross-references for Nahum 3:7
- Numbers 16:34All Israel around them fled at their outcry, for they shouted, “Perhaps the earth will swallow us!”
- Jeremiah 51:9We would have healed Babylon, but she cannot be healed. Abandon her! Let’s go, each one to his own country, for her judgment has reached up to the heavens and has risen beyond the skies.
- Revelation 18:10standing far off because of the terror of her torment, saying: “Alas, alas, O great city— O Babylon, the mighty city! For in a single hour your judgment has come!”
- Nahum 2:9Nineveh was like a pool of water for days—now they are fleeing. Stop, stop! Yet no one turns back.
- Jeremiah 51:41How has Sheshach been taken, the praise of the whole earth seized? How has Babylon become a horror among the nations!
- Revelation 18:16saying, “Alas, alas, O great city— clothed in fine linen and purple and scarlet, adorned with gold and precious stones and pearls!
- Isaiah 51:19These two things have befallen you —who will mourn for you?— devastation and destruction, famine and the sword. How will I comfort you?
- Jeremiah 15:5“Who will have pity on you, Jerusalem? Or who will grieve for you? Or who will turn aside to ask about your welfare?
- Lamentations 2:13How can I admonish you? To what can I compare you, O daughter of Jerusalem? To what can I liken you, so that I might console you, O virgin daughter of Zion? For your wound is as deep as the sea! Who can heal you?
Commentaries on Nahum 3:7
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 7Who will bemoan her? - In such cases, who pities the delinquent? She has been the occasion of ruin to multitudes, and now she is deservedly exposed and punished. And so it should be thought concerning Nineveh.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 7All they that look upon thee shall flee from thee - through terror, lest they should share her plagues, as Israel did, when the earth swallowed up Korah, Dathan and Abiram; and they who “had been made rich by Babylon, stand ajar off, for the fear of her torment. All they who look on thee” Revelation 18:15. She was set as a thing to be “gazed at.” He tells the effect on the gazers. “Each one who so gazed” at her should flee; one by one, they should gaze…Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 77. all ... that look upon thee--when thou hast been made "a gazing stock" (Na 3:6). shall flee from thee--as a thing horrible to look upon. Compare "standing afar off," Re 18:10. whence shall I seek comforters for thee?--Compare Is 51:19, which Nahum had before his mind.Read the comment
In the dictionaries
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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