Nahum 3:7 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

⁷ And all who look on you will shrink from you and say, Wasted is Nineveh; who will bemoan her? whence shall I seek comforters for her?

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁷ And all who look on you will shrink and flee from you and say, Nineveh is laid waste; who will pity and bemoan her? Where [then] shall I seek comforters for you?

American Standard Version (1901)

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?

Common English Bible

⁷ Then all who look at you will recoil from you and say, “Nineveh has been devastated! Who will lament for her?” Where could I possibly seek comforters for you?

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁷ And this shall be: everyone who sees you, will recoil from you, and he will say: "Nineveh has been devastated." Who will shake his head over you? Where might I seek consolation for you?

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁷ And it shall come to pass that every one that shall see thee, shall flee from thee, and shall say: Ninive is laid waste: who shall bemoan thee? whence shall I seek a comforter for thee?

Nahum 3:7 Cross References

Isaiah 51:19

These two things have befallen you— who will condole with you?— devastation and destruction, famine and sword; who will comfort you?

Jeremiah 15:5

“Who will have pity on you, O Jerusalem, or who will bemoan you? Who will turn aside to ask about your welfare?

Jeremiah 50:18

Therefore, thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I am bringing punishment on the king of Babylon and his land, as I punished the king of Assyria.

Jeremiah 51:9

We would have healed Babylon, but she was not healed. Forsake her, and let us go each to his own country; for her judgment has reached up to heaven and has been lifted up even to the skies.

Lamentations 2:13

What can I say for you, to what compare you, O daughter of Jerusalem? What can I liken to you, that I may comfort you, O virgin daughter of Zion? For vast as the sea is your ruin; who can restore you?

Nahum 1:1

An oracle concerning Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum of Elkosh.

Zephaniah 2:13

And he will stretch out his hand against the north, and destroy Assyria; and he will make Nineveh a desolation, a dry waste like the desert.

Numbers 16:34

And all Israel that were round about them fled at their cry; for they said, “Lest the earth swallow us up!”

Revelation 18:10

they will stand far off, in fear of her torment, and say, “Alas! alas! thou great city, thou mighty city, Babylon! In one hour has thy judgment come.”