Nahum 2:10

Modern English Version

She is desolate, empty, and waste! Hearts melt away, and knees shake; pain is in all the loins, and all their faces grow pale.

Cross References

Genesis 1:2

The earth was formless and void, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was moving over the surface of the water.

Psalm 22:14

I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint; my heart is like wax; it is melted within me.

Isaiah 14:23

I will also make it a possession for the hedgehog and pools of water, and I will sweep it with the broom of destruction, says the Lord of Hosts.

Isaiah 21:3

Therefore, my loins are filled with pain; pangs have taken hold of me as the pangs of a woman who travails. I am so perplexed at the hearing of it; I am so dismayed at the seeing of it.

Isaiah 24:1

Behold, the Lord makes the earth empty, and makes it waste, and turns it upside down, and scatters its inhabitants abroad.

Jeremiah 30:6

Ask now, and see, can a male labor with child? Why do I see every man with his hands on his loins, as a woman in labor, and all faces turned pale?

Jeremiah 49:23

Concerning Damascus: Hamath and Arpad have been humiliated, for they have heard bad news. They are faint-hearted; there is sorrow on the sea; it cannot be quieted.

Jeremiah 51:62

and say, ‘O  Lord, You have spoken against this place to cut it off, that no one will remain in it, neither man nor beast, but that it shall be desolate forever.’

Jeremiah 8:21

For the brokenness of the daughter of my people am I broken; I mourn; dismay has taken hold of me.

Ezekiel 21:7

It shall be when they say to you, “Why do you groan?” that you shall answer, “Because of the news that is coming. And every heart shall melt, and all hands shall be feeble, and every spirit shall faint, and all knees shall be weak as water. Behold, it comes and shall be brought to pass,” says the Lord God.

Ezekiel 31:15

Thus says the Lord God: On the day when it went down to Sheol I caused mourning. I covered the deep over it and restrained its rivers, and its many waters were stayed. And I caused Lebanon to mourn for it, and all the trees of the field fainted for it.

Daniel 5:6

Then the king’s countenance was changed, and his thoughts troubled him, so that the joints of his loins were loosed, and his knees struck against one another.

Joel 2:6

Before them, peoples are tormented; every face turns pale.

Nahum 2:2

For the Lord is restoring the prominence of Jacob, even the prominence of Israel, for others have certainly laid waste their vines.

Nahum 3:7

All who look at you will flee from you, and say, “Nineveh is devastated! Who will lament for her?” Where shall I seek comforters for you?

Zephaniah 3:6

I have cut off nations, their strongholds are devastated; I have made their streets desolate, with no one passing by. Their cities are destroyed; there is no man, no inhabitant.

Joshua 2:11

Our hearts melted when we heard these things, and no man had any breath in him because of you, for the Lord your God is God in heaven above and on earth below.

Joshua 7:5

The men of Ai struck down thirty-six men and pursued them from the gate to Shebarim. They struck them down on the mountainside, and the hearts of the people melted like water.