healing. alleviation.
bruise. breaking, or breach: i.e. ruin.
bruits. report, tidings. Hebrew. shema'. The English "bruit". rumour; from the French bruire, to make. noise.
upon. over. Figure of speech Erotesis. App-6.
wickedness. cruelty. Hebrew. ra'a'. App-44.
Verse Nahum 3:19. THERE IS _NO HEALING OF THY BRUISE_] Thou shalt never be rebuilt. _ALL THAT HEAR THE BRUIT OF THEE_] The report or account. _SHALL CLAP THE HANDS_] Shall exult in thy downfall. _...
THERE IS NO HEALING - (literally, “dulling”) of thy bruise It cannot be softened or mitigated; and so thy wound is grievous (literally, sick), incurable, for when the wound ever anew inflames, it cann...
CHAPTER 3 Nineveh's Guilt and Well-Deserved Judgment _ 1. The great wickedness of Nineveh (Nahum 3:1) _ 2. Her fate to be like the fate of No-Amon (Nahum 3:8) 3. Her well-deserved and complete jud...
Even so Nineveh shall be made drunk with the cup of God's wrath, and faint and staggering shall seek refuge from the enemy. Her outer fortresses shall fall like first-ripe figs (Isaiah 28:4 *) into th...
_NINEVEH'S LEADERS ARE WEAK -- NAHUM 3:16-19:_ These verses describe the utter defeat of Nineveh, the capital of Assyria. There is neither the possibility that the nation might be spared or restored....
THEIR PLACE IS NOT KNOWN— What probability was there, that the capital city of a great kingdom, a city which was sixty miles in compass, a city which contained so many thousand inhabitants, a city whi...
NINEVEH IS NO BETTER. Nahum 3:8-19 RV. Art thou better than No-amon, that was situated among the rivers, that had the waters round about her; whose rampart was the sea, and her wall was of the sea? Et...
There is no healing of thy bruise; thy wound is grievous: all that hear the bruit of thee shall clap the hands over thee: for upon whom hath not thy THERE IS NO HEALING OF THY BRUISE. According to He...
THE DOOM OF NINEVEH 1-7. Another threat against Nineveh, showing that disaster has come upon her on account of her sins. The keynote of the whole chapter is the fierce cry, WOE TO THE BLOODY CITY! IT...
NO HEALING OF THY BRUISE] RV 'No assuaging of thy hurt.' BRUIT OF THEE] i.e. the report of thy downfall....
NAHUM, *PROPHET OF COMFORT NAHUM _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ CHAPTER 3 V1 Trouble will come to you, city of blood! You are full of lies. You are full of things that your people stole! There were always p...
CLAP THE HANDS OVER THEE. — All that hear the “bruit” or report of the fall of Nineveh clap their hands with joy (Psalms 47:1), for where has not her oppressive rule been felt? The verse is addressed...
אֵין ־כֵּהָ֣ה לְ שִׁבְרֶ֔ךָ נַחְלָ֖ה מַכָּתֶ֑ךָ...
THE SIEGE AND FALL OF NINEVEH Nahum 2:1; Nahum 3:1 THE scene now changes from the presence and awful arsenal of the Almighty to the historical consummation of His vengeance. Nahum foresees the siege...
DESERVED DOOM Nahum 3:1-19 This terrible chapter pictures the doom of Nineveh. She had used infamous methods in bringing surrounding nations under her power, and now her shame was to be discovered an...
The last part of the prophecy is devoted wholly to the vindication of Jehovah's action against Nineveh, and is a fitting defense of the introductory declarations concerning His character. In the firs...
[There is] no healing of thy bruise; thy wound is grievous: all that hear the bruit of thee shall clap the hands over thee: for upon (g) whom hath not thy wickedness passed continually? (g) Meaning t...
_Hidden. Hebrew and Septuagint, "irremediable," (Haydock) --- No one pities thy wound, Chaldean. (Calmet)_...
I include the whole of this passage in one view for the sake of shortness, having already extended the Commentary very much beyond the original design. The whole of Nahum's prophecy, if taken literall...
REFLECTIONS HERE Reader! let us pause ere we dismiss this short but striking prophecy. See how attentive the Lord the Holy Ghost hath been, in all ages, in watching over the concerns of his church! An...
Lectures on the Minor Prophets. W. Kelly. Singular was the reproach of the Jews in the time of our Lord (John 7:52); for there were prophets who had arisen out of Galilee. Jonah and Nahum were both G...
The Prophet shows here more clearly, that when the empire of Nineveh should be scattered, it would be an incurable evil, that every hope of a remedy would be taken away. Though the wicked cannot escap...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 1, 2, AND 3. If we were to examine closely the different characters of the nations who have been connected with the people of God, we should perhaps find in e...
[THERE IS] NO HEALING OF THY BRUISE,.... Made by the fatal blow given to the empire by the taking of Nineveh; the ruin of it was irreparable and irrecoverable; the city of Nineveh was no more, and the...
Nahum 3:19 [There is] no healing of thy bruise; thy wound is grievous: all that hear the bruit of thee shall clap the hands over thee: for upon whom hath not thy wickedness passed continually? Ver. 1...
_Thy shepherds slumber, O king of Assyria_ Thy rulers and counsellors are remiss, heartless, or dead. _Thy nobles_ Or valiant ones, _shall dwell in the dust_ These words are not in the Hebrew, but are...
There is no healing of thy bruise, of the fracture which the Lord had inflicted; THY WOUND IS GRIEVOUS, the stroke or ruin being deadly; ALL THAT HEAR THE BRUIT, the report, OF THEE SHALL CLAP THE HAN...
THE MISERABLE RUIN OF NINEVEH. Jehovah now shows that the cause of Nineveh's destruction is its wickedness, and that for this reason the city is bound to submit to the sentence which has been pronoun...
HEALING: _ Heb._ wrinkling...
8-19 Strong-holds, even the strongest, are no defence against the judgments of God. They shall be unable to do any thing for themselves. The Chaldeans and Medes would devour the land like canker-worm...
THERE IS NO HEALING OF THY BRUISE; in a word, thou, Nineveh, must die, thy bruise he will not heal. who gave it, and others cannot. God by the Chaldeans hath wounded thee, and thy friends cannot bind...
Nahum 3:19 injury H7667 healing H3545 wound H4347 severe H2470 (H8737) hear H8085 (H8802) news H8088 clap...
Nahum 3:1. _Woe to the bloody city! it is all full of lies and robbery; the prey departeth not;_ Assyria became a great empire through violence, falsehood, and robbery. The soldiery had no respect fo...
CONTENTS: Nineveh reaps what it has sown destruction and violence. CHARACTERS: God, King of Assyria. CONCLUSION: The people that have with their cruelties been a terror and destruction to others, wi...
Nahum 3:1. _Woe to the bloody city._ Nineveh was drunk with blood. She was burdened with the wealth of plundered nations; her feasts and idolatries filled up the measure of her iniquity. Oh how sublim...
NAHUM—NOTE ON NAHUM 3:1 Again, Focus on Nineveh: More concerning the Lord’s Coming Judgment. This last major section of the book repeats most of the themes of the previous section (Nahum
NAHUM—NOTE ON NAHUM 3:18 KING OF ASSYRIA. See Nahum 1:11. Nahum, looking at Nineveh’s wreckage, addresses its monarchy with sarcastic language. Many of Nineveh’s...
CRITICAL NOTES.] NAHUM 3:19. HEALING] Softening, or ANOINTING, no cure. BRUISE] Fracture or ruin (Proverbs 16:18; Lamentations 2:11). IRRETRIEVABLE RUIN.—
EXPOSITION NAHUM 3:1 Part III. THE CAUSE OF THE JUDGMENT—SINS OF THE CITY, WHICH BRING INEVITABLE PUNISHMENT....
Woe to the bloody city! it is all full of lies and robbery; the prey departeth not; The noise of a whip, and the noise of the rattling of the wheels, and of the prancing horses, and of the jumping cha...
Ezekiel 25:6; Ezekiel 30:21; Ezekiel 30:22; Isaiah 10:6; Isaiah 14:8
Shall clap the hands — Insulting and rejoicing. Thy wickedness — Thy tyranny, pride, oppression and cruelty; treading down and trampling upon them....