Matthew Poole and continuators on Nahum 3:19

19 There is no healing of thy bruise : thy wound is grievous : all that hear the bruit of thee shall clap the hands over thee: for upon whom hath not thy wickedness passed continually .

In a word, thou Nineveh! must die, thy bruise he will not heal who gave it, and others cannot. God by the Chaldeans hath wounded thee, and thy friends cannot bind up the wound.

Shiver'd, and broken State.

Hath brought a weakness on thee, thou art sick with thy wound, and faintest, not able to bear a cure.

Of thy former carriage, and present calamities,

insulting and rejoycing over thee.

No Kingdom, State, City or Family almost round about thee; not one can be named.

Thy Sins, thy Idolatry, Luxury, &c. Thy Tyranny, Pride, Oppression and Cruelty; Thy illegal, unpresidented violence

without any bounds, and in most vehement and fierce manner,

either alwaies treading down, and trampling upon those whom thou hadst subdued, or else having conquered and spoiled one State, didst forthwith fall upon some other. Thus all suffered by thee, and all rejoyce at thy utter downfal; and as none have cause to befriend thee, so none will find hearts to pity thee, or hands to help thee, but every one is ready to wish, that all who are, as thou wer[illegible: 1 letter], Enemy to Mankind, and Justice, may, as thou, perish without help or pity.

Marginal references: Heb. wrinkling.