Nahum 3:7 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Bible Comments

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?

All they that look upon thee - when thou hast been made "a gazingstock" (Nahum 3:6).

Shall flee from thee - as a thing horrible to look upon (cf. "standing afar off," Revelation 18:10).

Whence shall I seek comforters for thee? - (cf. Isaiah 51:19, which Nahum had before his mind.)

Nahum 3:7

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?