Nahum 2:2
\2:1\A crusher has come up before your face: keep a good look-out, let the way be watched, make yourself strong, let your power be greatly increased.
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Psalms 80:12\80:11\It sent out its arms to the Sea, and its branches to the River.
Isaiah 60:15And though you were turned away from, and hated, and had no helper, I will make you a pride for ever, a joy from generation to generation.
Jeremiah 49:9If men came to get your grapes, would they not let some be uncut on the vines? if thieves came by night, would they not make waste till they had enough?
Hosea 10:1Israel is a branching vine, full of fruit; as his fruit is increased, so the number of his altars is increased; as the land is fair, so they have made fair pillars.
Zephaniah 3:11In that day you will have no shame on account of all the things in which you did evil against me: for then I will take away from among you those who were lifted up in pride, and you will no longer be lifted up with pride in my holy mountain.
Matthew Henry on Nahum 2:2-11
The Judgment of Nineveh. ( b. c. 710.) 1 He that dasheth in pieces is come up before thy face: keep the munition, watch the way, make thy loins strong, fortify thy power mightily. 2 For the Lord hath turned away the excellency of Jacob, as the excellency of Israel: for the emptiers have emptied them out, and marred their vine branches. 3 The shield of his mighty men is made red, the valiant men are in scarlet: the chariots shall be with flaming torches in the day of his preparation, and the fir trees shall be… Read the whole commentary →