Nahum 3:1-7

Nahum 3. A fresh Picture of the End of Nineveh.

Nahum 3:1. Woe to that city of blood, full of lies and rapine, where the prey never ceased, nor was any end to the booty! Now nothing is heard in her but the crack of the whip and the rumbling of wheels, the gallop of steeds and the dashing of chariots, with cavalry at the charge, while the sabres flash and the spears glitter, and underneath men stumble over corpses unnumbered. And all this is the fitting punishment of that mistress of harlotry, who fascinated the nations by her charms, and drew them into her chamber of death. Yahweh is against her, and will expose her like an harlot, and make her a gazing-stock to the nations, unwept for, unpitied, and dishonoured.

Nahum 3:2 f. A series of vivid exclamations: Hark! the sound of the whip, etc.

Nahum 3:4. selleth: rather deceiveth, beguileth.

Nahum 3:5 f. The regular punishment of the harlot (cf. Jeremiah 13:22 ff., Ezekiel 16:33 ff., etc.).