Nahum 2:10

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.

Cross-references

Nahum 3:7 Parallel

Nahum 3:7 mourns Nineveh's desolation, which aligns with the physical and emotional collapse described in 2:10.

Jeremiah 4:23-26 depicts earth as formless and void, echoing Nahum's desolation — both show divine judgment leaving utter emptiness.

Revelation 18:21-23 depicts Babylon's fall with silence and emptiness, a new covenant echo of Nineveh's judgment in Nahum.

Zephaniah 3:6 describes nations laid waste with no inhabitant — a general judgment that the specific desolation of Nineveh in Nahum exemplifies.

Zephaniah 2:13-15 directly prophesies Nineveh's desolation with similar imagery of waste and scorn, reinforcing the same judgment.

Joel 2:6 Parallel

Joel 2:6 repeats 'every face turns pale' in the locust plague, reinforcing the shared prophetic language of divine judgment.

Daniel 5:6 Parallel

Daniel 5:6 shows Belshazzar's knees knocking and face changing — the same physiological terror as Nineveh's collapse in Nahum.

Jeremiah 51:62 declares Babylon's complete desolation, mirroring Nineveh's fate in Nahum — both prophecies of a great city's total ruin.

Jeremiah 30:6 also describes men with pale faces and hands on stomachs like labor pains, echoing the same terror imagery for Judah's calamity.

Isaiah 34:10-15 depicts Edom's permanent desolation with wild animals, mirroring the utter ruin of Nineveh in Nahum 2:10.

In Isaiah 14:23, God sweeps Babylon with destruction, echoing the complete ruin of Nineveh in Nahum 2:10.

Isaiah 13:19-22 describes Babylon's total desolation, similar to Nineveh's collapse in Nahum 2:10 — both cities utterly ruined.

Isaiah 13:8 Parallel

Isaiah 13:8 portrays terror with pangs and flushed faces, matching Nahum's 'faces grow pale' and pain — both depict judgment's physical symptoms.

Isaiah 13:7 Parallel

Isaiah 13:7 says 'every human heart will melt' in Babylon's judgment — a direct parallel to the same phrase in Nahum's Nineveh.

Joshua 2:11 Parallel

Joshua 2:11 uses the same phrase 'hearts melted' as Rahab confesses fear — here it's the terror of Nineveh's inhabitants under judgment.

Jeremiah 49:23 uses the same 'melt in fear' language for Damascus — a parallel judgment scene causing physical collapse.

Ezekiel 21:7 explicitly echoes Nahum: 'every heart will melt, knees weak as water' — identical imagery of divine judgment's physical effect.

Isaiah 21:3 Parallel

Isaiah 21:3 uses labor-pain imagery for the prophet's anguish over Babylon, mirroring the physical collapse in Nineveh's doom.

Exodus 15:15 says nations 'melt away' in fear at Israel's exodus, using the same 'melt' verb for terror as Nahum's 'hearts melt'.

Joshua 2:9 Parallel

Joshua 2:9 has Rahab say the Canaanites 'melt in fear' of Israel, providing an earlier example of enemy collapse under divine judgment.

Jeremiah 8:21 Related theme

Jeremiah 8:21 expresses the prophet's horror over Judah's crushing, personalizing the collective anguish that Nahum describes for Nineveh.

Psalm 107:26 Related theme

Psalm 107:26 describes sailors' courage melting away in a storm, using similar 'melt' language for human fear in a different crisis.

Psalm 22:14 Parallel

Psalm 22:14 describes a heart melting like wax in personal anguish — Nahum applies the image to collective terror in judgment.