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Nahum 3:7 Explained in Context

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Verse 7. 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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Quick Meaning

Pictures every onlooker fleeing ruined Nineveh and asks who will lament or find comforters for her.

Read It With

  • Nahum 3:1-7

Read Nahum 3:7 with 3:1-7. Pictures every onlooker fleeing ruined Nineveh and asks who will lament or find comforters for her. The complete unit establishes this movement: Nineveh's bloodshed, deception, and plunder return as battle carnage and humiliating public exposure, but the oracle uses gendered and sexualized city imagery whose ancient function must be named without reproducing harm.

Why This Verse Appears Here

Pictures every onlooker fleeing ruined Nineveh and asks who will lament or find comforters for her. Its placement follows this logic: The third chapter states the ethical indictment more explicitly—blood, lies, and robbery—then confronts readers with the book's harshest rhetorical means of depicting the city's reversal.

Read Nahum 3:1–7 together

Why these verses belong together: The woe, battle carnage, because-clause, and exposure sentence form one accusation-and-shame oracle.

Verse 1. Woe to the bloody city! it is all full of lies and robbery; the prey departeth not;

Verse 2. The noise of a whip, and the noise of the rattling of the wheels, and of the pransing horses, and of the jumping chariots.

Verse 3. The horseman lifteth up both the bright sword and the glittering spear: and there is a multitude of slain, and a great number of carcases; and there is none end of their corpses; they stumble upon their corpses:

Verse 4. Because of the multitude of the whoredoms of the wellfavoured harlot, the mistress of witchcrafts, that selleth nations through her whoredoms, and families through her witchcrafts.

Verse 5. Behold, I am against thee, saith the LORD of hosts; and I will discover thy skirts upon thy face, and I will shew the nations thy nakedness, and the kingdoms thy shame.

Verse 6. And I will cast abominable filth upon thee, and make thee vile, and will set thee as a gazingstock.

Verse 7. 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?

What Remains True

A power that isolated others through abuse can discover that fear is not faithful solidarity.

How It Can Shape Life

  • Build truthful relationships before crisis and provide humane care even when an abusive institution falls.

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Read Nahum 3:1-7 — The Bloody City Is Accused and Publicly Shamed
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How certain is this explanation? probable

Where care is needed

The rhetorical questions expect no comforter within the taunt, but they do not settle a universal duty never to lament enemies.

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Biblical text

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Exact location: Nahum 3:1-7, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM corpus

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hebrew text and morphology

Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: Nahum

Open Scriptures

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Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v.2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/Nah.xml, 3:1-7

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translation and translator notes

NET Bible: Nahum with translators' notes

Biblical Studies Press

Biblical Studies Press, 2006

Supports: Verse-level translation, syntax, text-critical, poetic, historical, and uncertainty notes.

Exact location: NET Bible Nahum PDF, printed pp. 1761-1764, translation and notes on 3:1-7

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