Nahum 2:10
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She is destroyed, and rent, and torn: the heart melteth, and the knees fail, and all the loins lose their strength: and the faces of them all are as the blackness of a kettle.

She is.

606, or

612. Diodorus, who with others ascribes the taking of it to Arbaces the Mede and Belesis the Babylonian, says that he dispersed the citizens in the villages, levelled the city with the ground, transferred the gold and silver, of which there were many talents, to Ecbatana the metropolis of the Medes, and this subverted the empire of the Assyrians.

empty.

Nahum 3:7 And it shall come to pass that every one that shall see thee, shall flee from thee, and shall say: Ninive is laid waste: who shall bemoan thee? whence shall I seek a comforter for thee?

Genesis 1:2 And the earth was void and empty, and darkness was upon the face of the deep; and the spirit of God moved over the waters.

Isaiah 13:19-22 And that Babylon, glorious among kingdoms, the famous pride of the Chaldeans, shall be even as the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrha. . . .

Isaiah 14:23 And I will make it a possession for the ericius and pools of waters, and I will sweep it and wear it out with a besom, saith the Lord of hosts.

Isaiah 24:1 Behold the Lord shall lay waste the earth, and shall strip it, and shall afflict the face thereof, and scatter abroad the inhabitants thereof.

Isaiah 34:10-15 Night and day it shall not be quenched, the smoke thereof shall go up for ever: from generation to generation it shall lie waste, none shall pass through it for ever and ever. . . .

Jeremiah 4:23-26 I beheld the earth, and lo it was void, and nothing: and the heavens, and there was no light in them. . . .

Jeremiah 51:62 Thou shalt say: O Lord, thou hast spoken against this place to destroy it: so that there should be neither man nor beast to dwell therein, and that it should be desolate for ever.

Zephaniah 2:13-15 And he will stretch out his hand upon the north, and will destroy Assyria: and he will make the beautiful city a wilderness, and as a place not passable, and as a desert. . . .

Zephaniah 3:6 I have destroyed the nations, and their towers are beaten down: I have made their ways desert, so that there is none that passeth by: their cities are desolate, there is not a man remaining, nor any inhabitant.

Revelation 18:21-23 And a mighty angel took up a stone, as it were a great millstone, and cast it into the sea, saying: With such violence as this, shall Babylon, that great city, be thrown down and shall be found no more at all. . . .

the heart.

Joshua 2:11 And at the hearing these things, we were affrighted, and our heart fainted away, neither did there remain any spirit in us, at your coming in: for the Lord your God he is God in heaven above, and in the earth beneath.

Psalm 22:14 I am poured out like water; and all my bones are scattered. My heart is become like wax melting in the midst of my bowels.

Isaiah 13:7,8 Therefore shall all hands be faint, and every heart of man shall melt, . . .

the knees.

Daniel 5:6 Then was the king's countenance changed, and his thoughts troubled him: and the joints of his loins were loosed, and his knees struck one against the other.

and much.

Isaiah 21:3 Therefore are my loins filled with pain, anguish hath taken hold of me, as the anguish of a woman in labour: I fell down at the hearing of it, I was troubled at the seeing of it.

Jeremiah 30:6 Ask ye, and see if a man bear children? why then have I seen every man with his hands on his loins, like a woman in labour, and all faces are turned yellow?

and the faces.

Joel 2:6 At their presence the people shall be in grievous pains: all faces shall be made like a kettle.

Context
The Overthrow of Nineveh
9Take ye the spoil of the silver, take the spoil of the gold: for there is no end of the riches of all the precious furniture. 10She is destroyed, and rent, and torn: the heart melteth, and the knees fail, and all the loins lose their strength: and the faces of them all are as the blackness of a kettle.11Where is now the dwelling of the lions, and the feeding place of the young lions, to which the lion went, to enter in thither, the young lion, and there was none to make them afraid?…
Cross References
Joshua 7:5
And were defeated by the men of the city of Hai, and there fell of them six and thirty men: and the enemies pursued them from the gate as far as Sabarim, and they slew them as they fled by the descent: and the heart of the people was struck with fear, and melted like water.

Psalm 22:14
I am poured out like water; and all my bones are scattered. My heart is become like wax melting in the midst of my bowels.

Isaiah 13:7
Therefore shall all hands be faint, and every heart of man shall melt,

Isaiah 13:8
And shall be broken. Gripings and pains, shall take hold of them, they shall be in pain as a woman in labour. Every one shall be amazed at his neighbour, their countenances shall be as faces burnt.

Isaiah 24:1
Behold the Lord shall lay waste the earth, and shall strip it, and shall afflict the face thereof, and scatter abroad the inhabitants thereof.

Isaiah 34:10
Night and day it shall not be quenched, the smoke thereof shall go up for ever: from generation to generation it shall lie waste, none shall pass through it for ever and ever.

Jeremiah 8:21
For the affliction of the daughter of my people I am afflicted, and made sorrowful, astonishment hath taken hold on me.

Jeremiah 49:23
Against Damascus. Emath is confounded and Arphad: for they have heard very bad tidings, they are troubled as in the sea: through care they could not rest.

Ezekiel 21:7
And when they shall say to thee: Why mournest thou? thou shalt say: For that which I hear: because it cometh, and every heart shall melt, and all hands shall be made feeble, and every spirit shall faint, and water shall run down every knee: behold it cometh, and it shall be done, saith the Lord God.

Ezekiel 31:15
Thus saith the Lord God: In the day when he went down to hell, I brought in mourning, I covered him with the deep: and I withheld its rivers, and restrained the many waters: Libanus grieved for him, and all the trees of the field trembled.

Daniel 5:6
Then was the king's countenance changed, and his thoughts troubled him: and the joints of his loins were loosed, and his knees struck one against the other.

Joel 2:6
At their presence the people shall be in grievous pains: all faces shall be made like a kettle.

Nahum 2:2
For the Lord hath rendered the pride of Jacob, as the pride of Israel: because the spoilers have laid them waste, and have marred their vine branches.

Lexicon
She is emptied!
בּוּקָ֥ה (bū·qāh)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 950: Emptiness

Yes, she is desolate
וּמְבוּקָ֖ה (ū·mə·ḇū·qāh)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 4003: Emptiness

and laid waste!
וּמְבֻלָּקָ֑ה (ū·mə·ḇul·lā·qāh)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Pual - Participle - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 1110: To waste, lay waste

Hearts
וְלֵ֨ב (wə·lêḇ)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3820: The heart, the feelings, the will, the intellect, centre

melt,
נָמֵ֜ס (nā·mês)
Verb - Nifal - Participle - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 4549: To liquefy, to waste, to faint

knees
בִּרְכַּ֗יִם (bir·ka·yim)
Noun - fd
Strong's Hebrew 1290: The knee

knock,
וּפִ֣ק (ū·p̄iq)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 6375: Tottering, staggering

bodies
מָתְנַ֔יִם (mā·ṯə·na·yim)
Noun - md
Strong's Hebrew 4975: The waist, small of the back, the loins

tremble,
וְחַלְחָלָה֙ (wə·ḥal·ḥā·lāh)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 2479: Writhing, terror

and every
בְּכָל־ (bə·ḵāl)
Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 3605: The whole, all, any, every

face
וּפְנֵ֥י (ū·p̄ə·nê)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - common plural construct
Strong's Hebrew 6440: The face

grows pale!
קִבְּצ֥וּ (qib·bə·ṣū)
Verb - Piel - Perfect - third person common plural
Strong's Hebrew 6908: To gather, collect


Additional Translations
She is emptied! Yes, she is desolate and laid waste! Hearts melt, knees knock, bodies tremble, and every face grows pale!She is empty, and void, and waste: and the heart melts, and the knees smite together, and much pain is in all loins, and the faces of them all gather blackness.

She is empty, and void, and waste; and the heart melteth, and the knees smite together, and anguish is in all loins, and the faces of them all are waxed pale.

There is thrusting forth, and shaking, and tumult, and heart-breaking, and loosing of knees, and pangs on all loins; and the faces of all are as the blackening of a pot.

She is empty, and void, and waste; and the heart melteth, and the knees smite together, and writhing pain is in all loins, and all their faces grow pale.

She is empty, and void, and waste: and the heart melteth, and the knees smite together, and anguish is in all loins, and the faces of them all are waxed pale.

She is empty, and void, and waste: and the heart melteth, and the knees smite together, and much pain is in all loins, and the faces of them all gather blackness.

She is empty, void, and waste. The heart melts, the knees knock together, their bodies and faces have grown pale.

She is empty, yea, emptiness and waste, And the heart hath melted, And the knees have smitten together, And great pain is in all loins, And the faces of all of them have gathered paleness.
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