Introducing No-Amon (Nahum 3:5-8)

This study was done using the Amplified Bible, which I don't have permission to publish, so I will replace the verses here with the American Standard Version.  Because of that some of the comments may not totally make sense because the AMP has expanded explanations.  I would highly recommend going to a site like BibleGateway.com where you can read the AMP version for free.

5 Behold, I am against thee, saith Jehovah of hosts, and I will uncover thy skirts upon thy face; and I will show the nations thy nakedness, and the kingdoms thy shame.

A.  As the harlot she was, the seduction shall be put to an end when the nations see The truth of her vileness.  She will be absolutely disgraced and then despised by the surrounding nations.

6 And I will cast abominable filth upon thee, and make thee vile, and will set thee as a gazing-stock.

A.  He will make her a gazing stock not only in order to shame the city, but as a warning to others, particularly Babylon which would take Assyria's place.  To follow in the steps of harlotry is to face the same desecration and humiliation as the harlot.  This same truth has been a pattern throughout history that continues to repeat itself.

7 And it shall come to pass, that all they that look upon thee shall flee from thee, and say, Nineveh is laid waste: who will bemoan her? whence shall I seek comforters for thee?

A.  They will look in terror out of fear that they too will be destroyed, those not in the invading army.  Yet not one will pity or miss her.  She is such a blight in the world that all will celebrate her destruction save those living within her.  None shall come to her aid or comfort her, she will be crushed and ruined and die alone.

8 Art thou better than No-amon, that was situate among the rivers, that had the waters round about her; whose rampart was the sea, and her wall was of the sea?

 No-Amon, also known as Thebes was a city captured multiple times by Ashurbanipal in the early 600's B.C..  Smith's Bible Dictionary says this of No-Amon, "...to distinguish Thebes from some other place bearing the same name or on account of the connection of Amen with that city. The description of No-amon as "situated among the rivers, the waters round about it" (Nah. l.c.), remarkably characterizes Thebes. (It lay on both sides of the Nile, and was celebrated for its hundred gates, for its temples, obelisks, statues. etc. It was emphatically the city of temples, in the ruins of which many monuments of ancient Egypt are preserved, The plan of the city was a parallelogram, two miles from north to south and four from east to west, but none suppose that in its glory if really extended 33 miles along both aides of the Nile. Thebes was destroyed by Ptolemy, B.C. 81, and since then its population has dwelt in villages only. --ED.)"