Nahum 3:19

“[There is] no healing of thy bruise, etc.] Made by the fatal blow given to the empire by the taking of Nineveh; the ruin of it was irreparable and irrecoverable; the city of Nineveh was no more, and the Assyrian empire sunk, and never rose again: or, “there is no contraction of thy bruise”f137; as when a wound is healed, or near it, the skin round about is wrinkled and contracted. The Targum is, “there is none that grieves at thy breach;” so the Syriac version; so far from it, that they rejoiced at it, as in a following clause: thy wound is grievous; to be borne; the pain of it intolerable; an old obstinate one, inveterate and incurable: or, is “weak”, or “sickly”f138; which had brought a…”

“There is no healing - (literally, “dulling”) of thy bruise It cannot be softened or mitigated; and so thy wound is grievous (literally, sick), incurable, for when the wound ever anew inflames, it cannot be healed. The word, bruise, is the more expressive, because it denotes alike the abiding wound in the body Leviticus 21:19, and the shattering of a state, which God can heal Psalms 60:4; Isaiah 30:26, or which may be great, incurable Jeremiah 30:12. When the passions are ever anew aroused, they are at last without remedy; when the soul is ever swollen with pride, it cannot be healed; since only by submitting itself to Christ, “broken and contrite” by humility, can it be healed. Nineveh sank,…”

“Shall clap the hands - Insulting and rejoicing. Thy wickedness - Thy tyranny, pride, oppression and cruelty; treading down and trampling upon them. Next: Habakkuk Chapter 1”

“no: Jer 30:13-15, Jer 46:11; Eze 30:21, Eze 30:22; Mic 1:9; Zep 2:13-15 healing: Heb. wrinkling the bruit: Jer 10:22 shall: Job 27:23; Isa 14:8-21; Lam 2:15; Eze 25:6; Rev 18:20 upon: Nah 2:11, Nah 2:12; Isa 10:6-14, Isa 37:18; Rev 13:7, Rev 17:2, Rev 18:2, Rev 18:3 Next: Habakkuk Chapter 1”