Nahum 3:1
The prey — Extortion and rapine.... [ Continue Reading ]
The prey — Extortion and rapine.... [ Continue Reading ]
The horsemen — The Chaldeans and their confederates.... [ Continue Reading ]
The whoredom — The idolatries, which were multiplied by the many people that served the Assyrian idols. And whoredoms literally understood, did undoubtedly abound, where wealth, luxury, ease, and long continuance of these were to be found. Well — favoured — Glorious in their state and government, an... [ Continue Reading ]
Discover — l will strip thee naked, and deal with thee as inhuman soldiers deal with captive women.... [ Continue Reading ]
Shall flee — With loathing and abhorrence. Will bemoan — Whose bowels will be moved for her that had no bowels for any one.... [ Continue Reading ]
Thou — O Nineveh. No — It is supposed this was what we now called Alexandria. Art thou greater, stronger, and wiser? Yet all her power was broken, her riches spoiled, and her glory buried in ruins. Rampart — The defence of its walls on one side. Her wall — A mighty, strong wall, built from the sea l... [ Continue Reading ]
Her strength — Furnishing soldiers and warlike assistance. It was infinite — There was no end to their confidence and warlike provisions. Put — Or the Moors, who lie westward of Alexandria. Lubim — The people that inhabited that which is now called Cyrene.... [ Continue Reading ]
Thou also — Thou shalt drink deep of the bitter cup of God's displeasure. Hid — Thou shalt hide thyself. O Nineveh, as well as Alexandria. Shalt seek — Shalt sue for, and intreat assistance.... [ Continue Reading ]
Ripe figs — Whose weight and ripeness will bring them quickly to the ground. Shaken — If but lightly touched.... [ Continue Reading ]
Are women — Were very cowards. The gates — The strong frontiers. Wide open — Either through fear or treachery. Thy bars — With which the gates were shut and strengthened.... [ Continue Reading ]
Draw thee waters — Fill all thy cisterns, and draw the waters into the ditches. Tread the mortar — Set thy brick — makers on work to prepare store of materials for thy fortifications.... [ Continue Reading ]
There — In the very fortresses. Eat thee — As easily as the canker — worm eats the green herb. Many — They are innumerable; be thou so if thou canst; all will be to no purpose.... [ Continue Reading ]
The canker — worm spoileth — So these are like the canker — worms, which spoil wherever they come, and when no more is to be gotten, flee away.... [ Continue Reading ]
Thy crowned — Thy confederate kings and princes. Captains — Commanders and officers are for number, like locusts and grasshoppers; but 'tis all for shew, not for help. In the cool day — While the season suits them. The sun — When trouble, war, and danger, like the parching sun, scald them. Is not kn... [ Continue Reading ]
Thy shepherds — Thy rulers and counsellors. Slumber — Are remiss, heartless, or dead. No man gathereth — No one will concern himself to preserve thy dispersed ones.... [ Continue Reading ]
Shall clap the hands — Insulting and rejoicing. Thy wickedness — Thy tyranny, pride, oppression and cruelty; treading down and trampling upon them.... [ Continue Reading ]