Nahum 2:1
The one who scatters has come to attack you! Guard the fortresses! Watch the roads! Get yourselves ready! Call every soldier out!
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Psalms 50:14Give an offering of thanks to God; keep the promises you made to the Most High,
Isaiah 14:6You kept on furiously hitting foreign peoples without stopping, and aggressively ruled nations with unrestrained persecution.
Isaiah 29:8It will be like someone hungry dreaming that they're eating but who wakes up still hungry. It will be like someone thirsty dreaming of drinking but who wakes up still weak and thirsty. This is what it will be like for all your enemies, the ones attacking Mount Zion.
Jeremiah 25:9watch as I summon all the people of the north, declares the Lord. I'm going to send for my servant Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, to attack this country and the people who live here, and all the surrounding nations. I will set them apart for destruction. I'm going to totally destroy you, and people will be horrified at what's happened to you and will mock you.
Jeremiah 50:23See how the hammer of the whole earth is lying broken in pieces in the ground! The nations look with horror on what Babylon has become!
Jeremiah 51:20You are my war club, the weapon I use in battle. I use you to destroy nations; I use you to destroy kingdoms.
Matthew Henry on Nahum 2:1
We now come closer to Nineveh, that great city; she took, not warning by the destruction of her armies and the fall of her king, and therefore may expect, since she persists in her enmity to God, that he will proceed in his controversy with her. Here is foretold, I. The approach of the enemy that should destroy Nineveh, and the terror of his military preparations, ver. 1-5 . II. The taking of the city, ver. 6 . III. The captivity of the queen, the flight of the inhabitants, the seizing of all its wealth, and the… Read the whole commentary →