Nahum 3:1 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Bible Comments

NAHUM CHAPTER 3 The miserable ruin of Nineveh. Woe! a comprehensive threat of many and great calamities coming. To the bloody city; Nineveh, the chief city of the Assyrian kingdom: see Nahum 1:1. It is all; every part, officers and rulers, traders, both buyers and sellers, shops, houses, judicatories, all filled with falsehood and lies. Lies; cheating in their trades, and false witnesses before the judges. Robbery; their gain, though they count it honest, is no better in God's account than robbery or rapine, as is that the lion taketh, teareth, and devoureth, as the word in the Hebrew implies. The prey; unjust acquists by fraud and force; extortions and violent taking away what was not theirs. Departeth not; as they did so long since, they continue still so to do, no change from injustice to justice.

Nahum 3:1

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