Woe to the bloody city—Literally, "city of bloods," that is, of manifold bloodshedding, built and founded in blood ([Reference Habakkuk 2:12…

Woe to the bloody city!—Better, O bloody city! She is altogether deceit, filled with crime: she does not cease from p…

Assyria became a great empire through violence, falsehood, and robbery. The soldiery had no respect for justice; they stamped out the last spark of…

The Prophet, as I have said, expresses more clearly here the reason why God's vengeance would be so severe on the Ninevites: it was because they ha…

Woe to the bloody city Nineveh, in which many murders were daily committed; innocent blood shed; the lives of men taken a…

When proud sinners are brought down, others should learn not to lift themselves up. The fall of this great city should be a lesson to private perso…