Nahum 3:7
“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?”
King James Version (KJV)
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Read Full Chapter →All who see fallen Nineveh will flee, declaring her ruined, and no one will be found to mourn or comfort her.
What Does Nahum 3:7 Mean?
The aftermath is desolate. All who look on Nineveh will flee from her and say, Nineveh is laid waste. Then come two piercing questions: who will bemoan her, and where shall comforters be sought for her? The expected answer is no one. The city that gave no mercy receives none; she falls without a single mourner. The silence around her ruin is itself part of the judgment, for to die unlamented was deeply grievous in that world.
The lack of comforters is the bitter fruit of a life that crushed others. Nineveh had spread grief everywhere and offered comfort nowhere, and so finds none in her own hour of need. There is a sobering law of the harvest here: a city, or a soul, that sows only cruelty cannot reap compassion. Yet the verse also lets the longing for a comforter hang in the air, and Scripture answers that longing elsewhere with the God who comforts His people and the Spirit named the Comforter. Mercy is freely given to the lowly; it is only the hardened and unrepentant who, in the end, find none.