Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
Literally, "emptiness, and emptiedness, and devastation." The accumulation of substantives without a verb (as in Nahum 3:2), the two first of the three being derivatives of the same root, and like in sound, and the number of syllables in them increasing in a kind of climax, intensify the gloomy effectiveness of the expression. Hebrew, Bukah, Mebukah, Mebullakah (compare Isaiah 24:1, Isaiah 24:3-4; Zephaniah 1:15).
faces of all gather blackness—(See on Joel 2:6). CALVIN translates, "withdraw (literally, 'gather up') their glow," or flush, that is grow pale. This is probably the better rendering. So MAURER.
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Nahum 2:10:
Isaiah 21:3
Lamentations 4:8
Joel 2:6
Nahum 2:1
Zephaniah 1:15
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