Matthew Poole and continuators on Nahum 3:1

1 WO to the bloody city, it is all full of lies and robbery , the prey departeth not .

A comprehensive threat of many, and great calamities coming.

Nineveh, the chief City of the Assyrian Kingdom. Vid. chap. 1. ver. 1, let. b.

Every part, Officers and Rulers; Traders, both Buyers and Sellers; Shops, Houses, Judicatories, all fill'd with falsehood and lies.

Cheating in their Trades, and false Witnesses before the Judges.

Their gain, though they count honest, is no better in Gods account than robbery or rapine, as is that the Lion taketh, teareth, and devoureth, as the word Heb. implies.

Unjust acquists by fraud and force; extortions and violent taking away what was not theirs.

As they did so long since, they continue still so to do, no change from injustice to justice.

Marginal references: Ezek. 24.9. Hab. 2.12.; Heb. city of bloods.