Now they flee away.
1“Halt! Halt!” they cry;
But no one turns back.
Take spoil of agold!
There is no end of treasure,
Or wealth of every desirable prize.
The heart melts, and the knees shake;
Much pain is in every side,
And all their faces1 are drained of color.
And the feeding place of the young lions,
Where the lion walked, the lioness and lion’s cub,
And no one made them afraid?
1Killed for his lionesses,
aFilled his caves with prey,
And his dens with1 flesh.
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Nahum 2:10
She is empty and void and waste - The completeness of her judgment is declared first under that solemn number, Three, and the three words in Hebrew are nearly the same , with the same meaning, only each word fuller than the former, as picturing a growing desolation; and then under four heads (in all seven) also a growing fear. First the heart, the seat of courage and resolve and high purpose, melteth; then the knees smite together, tremble, shake, under the frame; then, much pain is in all loins, literally, "strong pains as of a woman in travail," writhing and doubling the whole body, and making it wholly powerless and unable to stand upright, shall bow the very loins, the seat of strength Proverbs 31:17, and, lastly, the faces of them all gather blackness (see the note at Joel 2:6), the fruit of extreme pain, and the token of approaching dissolution.
Other Barnes' Notes entries containing Nahum 2:10:
Daniel 5:6
Nahum 2:13
Nahum 3:9
Revelation 6:5-6
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