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Nahum
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Woe to the bloody city! It is all full of lies and robbery—no end to the prey. See also: Zephaniah 3:1-3Habakkuk 2:12Ezekiel 22:2-3The noise of the whip, the noise of the rattling of wheels, prancing horses, and bounding chariots, See also: Jeremiah 47:3Nahum 2:3-4Job 39:22-25the horseman charging, and the flashing sword, the glittering spear, and a multitude of slain, and a great heap of corpses, and there is no end of the bodies. They stumble on their bodies See also: Ezekiel 39:4Habakkuk 3:11Isaiah 34:3because of the multitude of the prostitution of the alluring prostitute, the mistress of witchcraft, who sells nations through her prostitution, and families through her witchcraft. See also: Isaiah 47:9Isaiah 47:12-13Revelation 18:2-3“Behold, I am against you,” says the LORD of Armies, “and I will lift your skirts over your face. I will show the nations your nakedness, and the kingdoms your shame. See also: Jeremiah 13:26Ezekiel 23:29Jeremiah 13:22I will throw abominable filth on you and make you vile, and will make you a spectacle. See also: Malachi 2:9Jeremiah 51:37Job 9:31It will happen that all those who look at you will flee from you, and say, ‘Nineveh is laid waste! Who will mourn for her?’ Where will I seek comforters for you?” See also: Isaiah 51:19Jeremiah 15:5Revelation 18:10Are you better than No-Amon, who was situated among the rivers, who had the waters around her, whose rampart was the sea, and her wall was of the sea? See also: Amos 6:2Ezekiel 30:14-16Ezekiel 31:2-3Cush and Egypt were her boundless strength. Put and Libya were her helpers. See also: Ezekiel 27:10Ezekiel 30:5Isaiah 20:5Yet was she carried away. She went into captivity. Her young children also were dashed in pieces at the head of all the streets, and they cast lots for her honorable men, and all her great men were bound in chains. See also: Isaiah 20:4Hosea 13:16Joel 3:3You also will be drunken. You will be hidden. You also will seek a stronghold because of the enemy. See also: Isaiah 49:26Isaiah 2:10Luke 23:30All your fortresses will be like fig trees with the first-ripe figs. If they are shaken, they fall into the mouth of the eater. See also: Revelation 6:13Isaiah 28:4Habakkuk 1:10Behold, your troops among you are women. The gates of your land are set wide open to your enemies. The fire has devoured your bars. See also: Jeremiah 51:30Jeremiah 50:37Isaiah 19:16Draw water for the siege. Strengthen your fortresses. Go into the clay, and tread the mortar. Make the brick kiln strong. See also: 2 Chronicles 32:3-4Nahum 2:1Jeremiah 46:3-4There the fire will devour you. The sword will cut you off. It will devour you like the grasshopper. Multiply like grasshoppers. Multiply like the locust. See also: Joel 1:4Nahum 3:13Nahum 2:13You have increased your merchants more than the stars of the skies. The grasshopper strips and flees away. See also: Genesis 15:5Jeremiah 33:22Genesis 22:17Your guards are like the locusts, and your officials like the swarms of locusts, which settle on the walls on a cold day, but when the sun appears, they flee away, and their place is not known where they are. See also: Jeremiah 51:27Revelation 9:7Your shepherds slumber, king of Assyria. Your nobles lie down. Your people are scattered on the mountains, and there is no one to gather them. See also: 1 Kings 22:17Psalms 76:5-6Isaiah 13:14There is no healing your wound, for your injury is fatal. All who hear the report of you clap their hands over you, for who hasn’t felt your endless cruelty? See also: Micah 1:9Lamentations 2:15Job 27:23
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Notes · Haydock (1859, public domain)14 notes
Notes in English 19th-century Catholic commentary by Fr. George Leo Haydock, shown as published.
These notes keep the polemics of their time: some speak harshly of the Jewish people or of other Christians. The Church teaches otherwise today. The Jewish people may not be blamed for the death of Christ (Nostra Aetate 4; Catechism 597–598), and Christians of other communities are our brothers and sisters in the Lord (Unitatis Redintegratio 3). Christian unity
Nahum 3:1
Ver. 1. Blood. Nemrod established his power by shedding blood. Gen. x. Ninus, who built Ninive, and his successors were also bloody. After 1200 years the empire decayed under Sardanapalus, as historians agree. Yet it continued longer, according to the Scriptures and Ribera, till the Chaldees destroyed it, when it had subsisted about 1440 years. It was even possessed of great power after the return of the Jews from Babylon, as Eus. S. Aug. V. Bede, &c. write.
W. ---
Depart. Sept. "be touched." H. --- He continues the metaphor of the lion seizing its prey. Here the last chapter should end.
↑ 1Nahum 3:2
Ver. 2. The noise. He has described the forces of Ninive, now he specifies those of Cyaxares and Nabopolassar.
↑ 2Nahum 3:4
Ver. 4. Harlot. Ninive is cruel and impure, engaging others in idolatry and witchcraft. C. ---
Sold, forcing them to adopt her manners. Rom. vii. 14.
↑ 4Nahum 3:7
Ver. 7. Bemoan. Lit. "shake his head:" the latter words are not in Heb. H. ---
Some supply, move his lips: but head will answer as well. This is a sign of derision or of pity. Job xlii. 11.
Mat. xxvii. 39. C.
↑ 7Nahum 3:8
Ver. 8. Populous Alexandria. No-Amon. A populous city of Egypt, destroyed by the Chaldeans, and afterwards rebuilt by Alexander, and called Alexandria.
Others suppose No-Amon to be the same as Diospolis. Ch. --- This seems preferable, as it was amidst waters and near the Mediterranean. Profane historians take little notice of it, as it was greatly reduced. Bochart fixes upon Memphis, others upon the temple of Ammon. But these were too remote from the sea. C.
--- The former was however near the Nile, (H.) which is sometimes called a sea.
C. --- S. Jerom thinks that Alexandria stood on the ruins of No. W. --- Yet of this we have no proof. It is thought that Nahum alludes to the devastation caused by Nabuchodonosor. As Juda however was still in his kingdom, it seems rather that Assaraddon, (Is. xx.) or his predecessor, Sennacherib, (C.) laid waste this city. 4 K. xviii. 21. Usher, A. 3292.
↑ 8Nahum 3:9
Ver. 9. Ethiopia; Chus, in Arabia, not far from Diospolis.
↑ 9Nahum 3:10
Ver. 10. Captivity. It was afterwards re-established and taken by Nabuchodonosor. C. ---
Fetters, or stocks. H.
↑ 10Nahum 3:11
Ver. 11. Drunk, and be chastised by God. Ezec. xxiii. 32. --- From, to escape.
↑ 11Nahum 3:14
Ver. 14. Water. This was a necessary precaution. 2 Par. xxxii. 3. --- Brick, to repair the breaches.
↑ 14Nahum 3:15
Ver. 15. Locust. Yet all will be in vain. Thy numbers will be cut off as easily as locusts.
↑ 15Nahum 3:16
Ver. 16. Away. Thus did the merchants, at the approach of the enemy.
↑ 16Nahum 3:17
Ver. 17. Guards. Heb. "crowned" princes. --- Little. Heb. "satraps are like great locusts, which,"
&c. S. Jerom has read (C.) toppic instead of taphseraic, (H.) which Sept.
neglect. Thapsar denotes an officer. Jer. li. 27. C. --- Of locusts. The young locusts. Ch.
↑ 17Nahum 3:18
Ver. 18. Slumbered. They have not guarded the flock. C.
↑ 18Nahum 3:19
Ver. 19. Hidden. Heb. and Sept. "irremediable." H. --- No one pities thy wound.
Chal. C.
↑ 19License: Notes by Fr. George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), from the Douay-Rheims Bible with Haydock's commentary (first ed. Thomas Haydock, Manchester/Dublin, 1811–1814; New York: Edward Dunigan & Brother, 1859); New Testament notes compiled with Fr. Benedict Rayment. Public domain. Digital text: "The Haydock Bible", Internet Archive (archive.org/details/TheHaydockBible), uploaded 2011 under the Public Domain Mark. · Credits and licenses