Verse 7

And it will come about that all who see you will go in flight from you and say, Nineveh is made waste: who will be weeping for her? where am I to get comforters for her?

Referenced Verses

  • Isa 51:19 : 19 These two things have come on you; who will be weeping for you? wasting and destruction; death from need of food, and from the sword; how may you be comforted?
  • Jer 15:5 : 5 For who will have pity on you, O Jerusalem? and who will have sorrow for you? or who will go out of his way to see how you are?
  • Jer 51:9 : 9 We would have made Babylon well, but she is not made well: give her up, and let us go everyone to his country: for her punishment is stretching up to heaven, and lifted up even to the skies.
  • Rev 18:10 : 10 Watching from far away, for fear of her punishment, saying, Sorrow, sorrow for Babylon, the great town, the strong town! for in one hour you have been judged.
  • Rev 18:16-19 : 16 Saying, Sorrow, sorrow for the great town, she who was clothed in delicate linen, and purple, and red; with ornaments of gold and stones of great price and jewels! 17 For in one hour such great wealth has come to nothing. And every shipmaster, and all who are sailing on the sea, and sailors and all who get their living by the sea, were watching from far away, 18 And crying out when they saw the smoke of her burning, saying, What town is like the great town? 19 And they put dust on their heads, and were sad, weeping and crying, and saying, Sorrow, sorrow for the great town, in which was increased the wealth of all who had their ships on the sea because of her great stores! for in one hour she is made waste.
  • Num 16:34 : 34 And all Israel round about them went in flight at their cry, For fear, said they, that we go down into the heart of the earth.
  • Jer 51:41-43 : 41 How is Babylon taken! and the praise of all the earth surprised! how has Babylon become a cause of wonder among the nations! 42 The sea has come up over Babylon; she is covered with the mass of its waves. 43 Her towns have become a waste, a dry and unwatered land, where no man has his living-place and no son of man goes by.
  • Lam 2:13 : 13 What example am I to give you? what comparison am I to make for you, O daughter of Jerusalem? what am I to make equal to you, so that I may give you comfort, O virgin daughter of Zion? for your destruction is great like the sea: who is able to make you well?
  • Nah 1:1 : 1 The word about Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite.
  • Nah 2:9-9 : 9 But Nineveh is like a pool of water whose waters are flowing away; Keep your place, they say; but no one is turning back. 10 Take silver, take gold; for there is no end to the store; take for yourselves a weight of things to be desired.