| Geneva Study Bible Woe to the bloody city! it is all full of lies and robbery; {a} the prey departeth not; (a) It never ceases to spoil and rob. Wesley's Notes 3:1 The prey - Extortion and rapine. King James Translators' Notes bloody...: Heb. city of bloods Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary CHAPTER 3 Na 3:1-19. Repetition of Nineveh's Doom, with New Features; the Cause Is Her Tyranny, Rapine, and Cruelty: No-ammon's Fortifications Did Not Save Her; It Is Vain, Therefore, for Nineveh to Think Her Defenses Will Secure Her against God's Sentence. 1. the bloody city!-literally, "city of blood," namely, shed by Nineveh; just so now her own blood is to be shed. robbery-violence [Maurer]. Extortion [Grotius]. the prey departeth not-Nineveh never ceases to live by rapine. Or, the Hebrew verb is transitive, "she (Nineveh) does not make the prey depart"; she ceases not to plunder. Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary 3:1-7 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 persons, who increase wealth by fraud and oppression. They are preparing enemies for themselves; and if the Lord sees good to punish them in this world, they will have none to pity them. Every man who seeks his own prosperity, safety, and peace, should not only act in an upright, honourable manner, but with kindness to all. | 
