SEV Biblia, Chapter 2:10
Vacía, y agotada, y despedazada está, y el corazón derretido; batimiento de rodillas, y dolor en los riñones, y los rostros de todos tomarán negrura.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Nahum 2:10
Verse 10. She is empty, and void, and waste] The original is strongly emphatic; the words are of the same sound; and increase in their length as they point out great, greater, and greatest desolation. hqlbmw hqwbmw hqwb Bukah, umebukah, umebullakah.
She is void, empty, and desolate.
The faces of them all gather blackness.] This marks the diseased state into which the people had been brought by reason of famine, &c.; for, as Mr. Ward justly remarks, "sickness makes a great change in the countenance of the Hindoos; so that a person who was rather fair when in health, becomes nearly black by sickness." This was a general case with the Asiatics.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 10. She is empty, and void, and waste , etc.] The city of Nineveh, empty of inhabitants, being killed, or having fled; and stripped of all its treasures and riches by the enemies; its walls and houses demolished and pulled down, and laid in ruins, and become a heap of rubbish; (see Gill on “Na 1:8”). Various words are here used to ascertain and confirm the thing; and there is an elegant play on words or likeness of sounds, which our language will not express: and the heart melteth ; the heart of every inhabitant of Nineveh melted with fear at the approach of their enemies, their entrance into the city, and plunder of it; flowed like water, or melted like wax; (see Psalm 22:14): and the knees smite together ; like people in a fright, and when a panic has seized them; and as it was with Belshazzar, ( Daniel 5:6): and much pain [is] in all loins ; like that of women in travail; or of persons in a sudden fright, which gives them a pain in their backs at once: and the faces of them all gather blackness ; like a pot, as the Targum adds; being in great distress and disconsolation, which make men appear in a dismal hue, and their countenances look very dark and gloomy; (see Joel 2:6).
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 1-10 - Nineveh shall not put aside this judgment; there is no counsel of strength against the Lord. God looks upon proud cities, and brings the down. Particular account is given of the terrors wherein the invadin enemy shall appear against Nineveh. The empire of Assyria is represented as a queen, about to be led captive to Babylon. Guilt in the conscience fills men with terror in an evil day; and what wil treasures or glory do for us in times of distress, or in the day of wrath? Yet for such things how many lose their souls!
Original Hebrew
בוקה 950 ומבוקה 4003 ומבלקה 1110 ולב 3820 נמס 4549 ופק 6375 ברכים 1290 וחלחלה 2479 בכל 3605 מתנים 4975 ופני 6440 כלם 3605 קבצו 6908 פארור׃ 6289
