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Nahum 2:10

Judgment

8 But Nineveh is of old like a pool of water: yet they shall flee away. Stand, stand, shall they cry; but none shall look back.

9 Take ye the spoil of silver, take the spoil of gold: for there is none end of the store and glory out of all the pleasant furniture.

She is empty, and void, and waste: and the heart melteth, and the knees smite together, and much pain is in all loins, and the faces of them all gather blackness.

11 Where is the dwelling of the lions, and the feedingplace of the young lions, where the lion, even the old lion, walked, and the lion’s whelp, and none made them afraid?

12 The lion did tear in pieces enough for his whelps, and strangled for his lionesses, and filled his holes with prey, and his dens with ravin.

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This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB
She is emptied! Yes, she is desolate and laid waste! Hearts melt, knees knock, bodies tremble, and every face grows pale!
KJV
She is empty, and void, and waste: and the heart melteth, and the knees smite together, and much pain is in all loins, and the faces of them all gather blackness.
WEB
She is empty, void, and waste. The heart melts, the knees knock together, their bodies and faces have grown pale.
ASV
She is empty, and void, and waste; and the heart melteth, and the knees smite together, and anguish is in all loins, and the faces of them all are waxed pale.
DARBY
She is empty, and void, and waste; and the heart melteth, and the knees smite together, and writhing pain is in all loins, and all their faces grow pale.
BLB
Emptiness, an empty place and laid waste! The heart melts, and the knees shake, and [there is] anguish in all loins, and the faces of all of them are gathered to paleness!
ÅB
Tomt, tømt, uttømt! - forferdede hjerter og vaklende knær og verk i alle lender, og alles ansikter er blussende røde.
OTB
Hun er tømt! Ja, hun er øde og ødelagt!
Hjerter smelter og knær vakler!
Skjelving er i alle lender!
Alle ansikter har blitt bleke!
B1930
Tomt, tømt, uttømt! - forferdede hjerter og vaklende knær og verk i alle lender, og alles ansikter er blussende røde.

Study notes (Tyndale)

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Cross references

  • Joel 2:6

    Before their face the people shall be much pained: all faces shall gather blackness.

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  • Daniel 5:6

    Then the king’s countenance was changed, and his thoughts troubled him, so that the joints of his loins were loosed, and his knees smote one against another.

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  • Psalms 22:14

    I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint: my heart is like wax; it is melted in the midst of my bowels.

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  • Jeremiah 30:6

    Ask ye now, and see whether a man doth travail with child? wherefore do I see every man with his hands on his loins, as a woman in travail, and all faces are turned into paleness?

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  • Isaiah 13:7–8

    Therefore shall all hands be faint, and every man’s heart shall melt:

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  • Isaiah 24:1

    Behold, the LORD maketh the earth empty, and maketh it waste, and turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad the inhabitants thereof.

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  • Isaiah 21:3

    Therefore are my loins filled with pain: pangs have taken hold upon me, as the pangs of a woman that travaileth: I was bowed down at the hearing of it; I was dismayed at the seeing of it.

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  • Zephaniah 2:13–15

    And he will stretch out his hand against the north, and destroy Assyria; and will make Nineveh a desolation, and dry like a wilderness.

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