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Nahum 3:19 KJV
Nahum · chapter 3 · verse 19
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?Nahum 3:19 · King James Version
Nahum 3:19 in context
17Thy crowned are as the locusts, and thy captains as the great grasshoppers, which camp in the hedges in the cold day, but when the sun ariseth they flee away, and their place is not known where they are.
18Thy shepherds slumber, O king of Assyria: thy nobles shall dwell in the dust: thy people is scattered upon the mountains, and no man gathereth them.
19There 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?
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- wickednessraʻbad or evilH7451 →
- grievouschâlâhproperly, to be rubbed or wornH2470 →
- healingkêhâhproperly, a weakeningH3545 →
- bruiseshebera fracture, figuratively, ruinH7667 →
- passedʻâbarto cross overH5674 →
- woundmakkâha woundH4347 →
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Nineveh has been told that God is against her, and then none can be for her, to stand her in any stead; yet she sets God himself at defiance, and his power and justice, and says, I shall have peace. Threatened folks live long;
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 8-19