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Nahum 3:9-19

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9 1Cush was her strength; Egypt too, and that without limit; 2Put and the 3Libyans were her[a] helpers.
10 4Yet she became an exile; she went into captivity; 5her infants were dashed in pieces at the head of every street; for her honored men 6lots were cast, 7and all her great men were bound in chains.
11 8You also will be drunken; you will go into hiding; 9you will seek a refuge from the enemy.
12 All your fortresses are 10like fig trees with first-ripe figs-- if shaken they fall into the mouth of the eater.
13 Behold, your troops 11are women in your midst. The gates of your land are wide open to your enemies; fire has devoured your bars.
14 12Draw water for the siege; 13strengthen your forts; go into the clay; tread the mortar; take hold of the brick mold!
15 There will the fire devour you; the sword will cut you off. It will 14devour you 15like the locust. Multiply yourselves 16like the locust; multiply 17like the grasshopper!
16 You increased 18your merchants more than the stars of the heavens. 19The locust spreads its wings and flies away.
17 Your 20princes are 21like grasshoppers, 22your scribes[b] like clouds of locusts settling on the fences in a day of cold-- when the sun rises, they fly away; no one knows where they are.
18 Your shepherds 23are asleep, O king of Assyria; 24your nobles slumber. Your people 25are scattered on the mountains with none to gather them.
19 There is no easing your hurt; 26your wound is grievous. All who hear the news about you 27clap their hands over you. For 28upon whom has not come your unceasing evil?
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Nahum 3:9-19 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO NAHUM 3

In this chapter is contained the prophecy of the destruction of Nineveh, and with it the whole Assyrian empire; the causes of which, besides those before mentioned, were the murders, lies, and robberies it was full of, Na 3:1 for which it should be swiftly and cruelly destroyed, Na 3:2,3 as also its whoredoms and witchcrafts, or idolatry, by which nations and families were seduced, Na 3:4 and hence she should be treated as a harlot, her nakedness exposed, and she cast out with contempt, and mocked at by all, Na 3:5-7 and all those things she placed her confidence in are shown to be of no avail; as her situation and fortresses, as she might learn from the case of No Amon, Na 3:8-12 nor the number of her inhabitants, which were weak as women; nor even her merchants, captains, nobles, and king himself, Na 3:13-18 nor the people she was in alliance with, who would now mock at her, her case being irrecoverable and incurable, Na 3:19.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Cross References 28

Footnotes 2

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