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# No healing is possible for your wounds. Your wounds are severe
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Nahum speaks of the certainty of the destruction of Nineveh and the defeat of its king as if the king had suffered an incurable wound. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor]])
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# No healing is possible for your wounds
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The word "healing" can be translated with a verbal phrase. Alternate translation: "No one is able to heal your wounds" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-abstractnouns]])
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# Who has escaped your constant wickedness?
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This rhetorical question emphasizes the negative answer that it anticipates. All of the nations that were near Assyria had suffered because of Assyria's constant wickedness. Alternate translation: "No one has escaped your constant wickedness." (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-rquestion]])
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