Nahum 3:9-19

9 ¹Ethiopia was her might, And Egypt too, without limits. ²Put and ³Lubim were among her helpers.

10 Yet she ⁴became an exile, She went into captivity; Also her ⁵small children were dashed to pieces ⁶At the head of every street; They ⁷cast lots for her honorable men, And all her great men were bound with fetters.

11 You too will become ⁸drunk, You will be ⁹hidden. You too will search for a refuge from the enemy.

12 All your fortifications are ¹⁰fig trees with ¹¹ripe fruit - When shaken, they fall into the eater's mouth.

13 Behold, your people are ¹²women in your midst! The gates of your land are ¹³opened wide to your enemies; Fire consumes your gate bars.

14 ¹⁴Draw for yourself water for the siege! ¹⁵Strengthen your fortifications! Go into the clay and tread the mortar! Take hold of the brick mold!

15 There ¹⁶fire will consume you, The sword will cut you down; It will ¹⁷consume you as the locust does. Multiply yourself like the creeping locust, Multiply yourself like the swarming locust.

16 You have increased your ¹⁸traders more than the stars of heaven - The creeping locust strips and flies away.

17 Your ¹⁹guardsmen are like the swarming locust. Your ²⁰marshals 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 ²¹sleeping, O ²²king of Assyria; Your ²³nobles are lying down. Your people are ²⁴scattered on the mountains And there is no one to regather them.

19 There is ²⁵no relief for your breakdown, Your ²⁶wound is incurable. All who hear about you Will ²⁷clap their hands over you, For on whom has not your evil passed continually?

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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 27

1. Isaiah 20:5
2. Jeremiah 46:9; Ezekiel 27:10; Ezekiel 30:5; Ezekiel 38:5
3. 2 Chronicles 12:3; 2 Chronicles 16:8
4. Isaiah 19:4; Isaiah 20:4
5. Psalms 137:9; Isaiah 13:16; Hosea 13:16
6. Lamentations 2:19
7. Joel 3:3; Obadiah 11
8. Isaiah 49:26; Jeremiah 25:27; Nahum 1:10
9. Isaiah 2:10, 19; Hosea 10:8
10. Revelation 6:13
11. Isaiah 28:4
12. Isaiah 19:16; Jeremiah 50:37; Jeremiah 51:30
13. Isaiah 45:1, 2; Nahum 2:6
14. 2 Chronicles 32:3, 4
15. Nahum 2:1
16. Isaiah 66:15, 16; Nahum 2:13; Nahum 3:13
17. Joel 1:4
18. Isaiah 23:8
19. Revelation 9:7
20. Jeremiah 51:27
21. Psalms 76:5, 6; Isaiah 56:10; Jeremiah 51:57
22. Jeremiah 50:18
23. Nahum 2:5
24. 1 Kings 22:17; Isaiah 13:14
25. Jeremiah 46:11; Micah 1:9
26. Jeremiah 30:12
27. Job 27:23; Lamentations 2:15

Footnotes 5

[a]. Lit "your"
[b]. Lit "first fruits"
[c]. I.e. strips vegetation; or "molts"
[d]. Or "officials"
[e]. Lit "your report"

Nahum 3:9-19

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Nahum 3:9-19 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO NAHUM 3

Cross References 27

Footnotes 5