Nahum 3:7 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

It shall come to pass; it will most certainly be. All they that look upon thee, so soon as ever thou art seen and discovered, O Nineveh, in thy vileness, shall flee from thee, with hatred, loathing, and abhorrence for thy former pride and wickedness. and for thy present miseries. And say, with wonder, scorn, rejoicing, and spreading the news, Nineveh is laid waste; taken, sacked, emptied of inhabitant, yea, utterly subverted, that it may be no more a rival with Babylon: it is certain that it is not now where it once stood. Who will bemoan her? whose bowels will be moved for her that had no bowels for any one; who will move foot or, hand toward her relief? Whence? from what place? She hath wronged all her neighbours, and ruined, some of them; from amidst these surely not one may be fetched to speak comfortably to her; these do with reason upbraid her former cruelty and pride, and rejoice in her present calamity and ruin, and strangers will not be concerned for her.