Nahum 3:1 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Bible Comments

Wo to the bloody city Here God shows the cause of his bringing destruction on Nineveh, and overthrowing the Assyrian empire. And first, it is declared, that Nineveh was a city in which acts of cruelty abounded, and innocent blood was frequently shed; that it was also full of deceit, falsehood, and rapine; unjustly and continually increasing its riches by the plunder of the neighbouring countries, which had done them no injury.

Nahum 3:1

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