Nahum 3:7 BSB — MannaFest

Nahum 3:7

Then all who see you will recoil from you and say, ‘Nineveh is devastated; who will grieve for her?’ Where can I find comforters for you?”

BSB

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ASV

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?

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?

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Commentary

2 voices

Jerome

Commentary on Nahum (420)

(Verse 7) And it shall come to pass, that whoever sees you will flee from you, and say: Nineveh is laid waste; who will mourn for her? In Hebrew, there is no 'head', but we have added it to make the meaning clearer. Finally, Symmachus interpreted it as follows: And whoever sees you will depart from you and say: Nineveh is dispersed, who will mourn with her? Moreover, the Seventy: And it shall come to pass, that whoever sees you will descend from you and say: Wretched Nineveh, who will lament for her?

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The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

All 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” Rev 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, be scared, flee (compare Psa 31:11; Psa 64:8).

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Original language & word study

15 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וְהָיָ֤ה	ve.ha.Yah	and it will be	H1961 →
כָל־	khol-	all	H3605 →
רֹאַ֙יִךְ֙	ro.'A.yikh	[those who] see you	H7200 →
יִדּ֣וֹד	yi.Dod	he will flee	H5074 →
מִמֵּ֔ךְ	mi.Mekh	from you	H4480 →
וְאָמַר֙	ve.'a.Mar	and he will say	H559 →
שָׁדְּדָ֣ה	sha.de.Dah	it is devastated	H7703 →
נִֽינְוֵ֔ה	nin.Veh	Nineveh	H5210 →
מִ֖י	mi	who?	H4310 →
יָנ֣וּד	ya.Nud	will he show sympathy	H5110 →
לָ֑הּ	Lah	to it
מֵאַ֛יִן	me.'A.yin	from where?	H370 →
אֲבַקֵּ֥שׁ	'a.va.Kesh	will I seek	H1245 →
מְנַחֲמִ֖ים	me.na.cha.Mim	comforters	H5162 →
לָֽךְ׃	Lakh	for you

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

H5210ninvehNineveh17×

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

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Revelation 18:10
In fear of her torment, they will stand at a distance and cry out: “Woe, woe to the great city, the mighty city of Babylon! For in a single hour your judgment has come.”
leads to
- Revelation 18:19
  Then they will throw dust on their heads as they weep and mourn and cry out: “Woe, woe to the great city, where all who had ships on the sea were enriched by her…
- Revelation 18:8
  Therefore her plagues will come in one day—death and grief and famine—and she will be consumed by fire, for mighty is the Lord God who judges her.”
- Revelation 18:15–17
  The merchants who sold these things and grew their wealth from her will stand at a distance, in fear of her torment. They will weep and mourn,
- Revelation 14:8
  Then a second angel followed, saying, “Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great, who has made all the nations drink the wine of the passion of her immorality.”
- Joel 1:15
  Alas for the day! For the Day of the LORD is near, and it will come as destruction from the Almighty.
Through
Jeremiah 15:5
Who will have pity on you, O Jerusalem? Who will mourn for you? Who will turn aside to ask about your welfare?
leads to
- Isaiah 51:19
  These pairs have befallen you: devastation and destruction, famine and sword. Who will grieve for you? Who can comfort you?
- Psalms 69:20
  Insults have broken my heart, and I am in despair. I looked for sympathy, but there was none, for comforters, but I found no one.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
Through
Jeremiah 51:9
“We tried to heal Babylon, but she could not be healed. Abandon her! Let each of us go to his own land, for her judgment extends to the sky and reaches to the clouds.”
leads to
- Jeremiah 50:16
  Cut off the sower from Babylon, and the one who wields the sickle at harvest time. In the face of the oppressor’s sword, each will turn to his own people, each will flee to…

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