John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Nahum 3:19
There is no healing of thy bruise ,.... Made by the fatal blow given to the empire by the taking of Nineveh; the ruin of it was irreparable and irrecoverable; the city of Nineveh was no more, and the Assyrian empire sunk, and never rose again: or, "there is no contraction of thy bruise" F18 אין כהה "nulla est contractio", Junius & Tremellius, Burkius. ; as when a wound is healed, or near it, the skin round about is wrinkled and contracted. The Targum is, "there is none that... read more
Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Nahum 3:8-19
Nineveh has been told that God is against her, and then none can be for her, to stand her in any stead; yet she sets God himself at defiance, and his power and justice, and says, I shall have peace. Threatened folks live long; therefore here the prophet largely shows how vain her confidences would prove and insufficient to ward off the judgment of God. To convince them of this, I. He shows them that other places, which had been as strong and as secure as they, could not keep their ground... read more