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Nahum 3:11-19

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11 You too will become 1drunk, You will be 2hidden. You too will search for a refuge from the enemy.
12 All your fortifications are 3fig trees with 4ripe fruit - When shaken, they fall into the eater's mouth.
13 Behold, your people are 5women in your midst! The gates of your land are 6opened wide to your enemies; Fire consumes your gate bars.
14 7Draw for yourself water for the siege! 8Strengthen your fortifications! Go into the clay and tread the mortar! Take hold of the brick mold!
15 There 9fire will consume you, The sword will cut you down; It will 10consume you as the locust does. Multiply yourself like the creeping locust, Multiply yourself like the swarming locust.
16 You have increased your 11traders more than the stars of heaven - The creeping locust strips and flies away.
17 Your 12guardsmen are like the swarming locust. Your 13marshals are like hordes of grasshoppers Settling in the stone walls on a cold day. The sun rises and they flee, And the place where they are is not known.
18 Your shepherds are 14sleeping, O 15king of Assyria; Your 16nobles are lying down. Your people are 17scattered on the mountains And there is no one to regather them.
19 There is 18no relief for your breakdown, Your 19wound is incurable. All who hear about you Will 20clap their hands over you, For on whom has not your evil passed continually?
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Nahum 3:11-19 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 20

  • 1. Isaiah 49:26; Jeremiah 25:27; Nahum 1:10
  • 2. Isaiah 2:10, 19; Hosea 10:8
  • 3. Revelation 6:13
  • 4. Isaiah 28:4
  • 5. Isaiah 19:16; Jeremiah 50:37; Jeremiah 51:30
  • 6. Isaiah 45:1, 2; Nahum 2:6
  • 7. 2 Chronicles 32:3, 4
  • 8. Nahum 2:1
  • 9. Isaiah 66:15, 16; Nahum 2:13; Nahum 3:13
  • 10. Joel 1:4
  • 11. Isaiah 23:8
  • 12. Revelation 9:7
  • 13. Jeremiah 51:27
  • 14. Psalms 76:5, 6; Isaiah 56:10; Jeremiah 51:57
  • 15. Jeremiah 50:18
  • 16. Nahum 2:5
  • 17. 1 Kings 22:17; Isaiah 13:14
  • 18. Jeremiah 46:11; Micah 1:9
  • 19. Jeremiah 30:12
  • 20. Job 27:23; Lamentations 2:15

Footnotes 4

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