Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Nahum 3:1

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1. the bloody city! —literally, "city of blood," namely, shed by Nineveh; just so now her own blood is to be shed. robbery —violence [MAURER]. Extortion [GROTIUS]. the prey departeth not —Nineveh never ceases to live by rapine. Or, the Hebrew verb is transitive, "she (Nineveh) does not make the prey depart"; she ceases not to plunder. return to ' Top of Page ' <a name="verse-2" class="com-number"