Nahum 1:12
This is what Yahweh says, 1 “Even if they are at their full strength and full numbers, they will nevertheless be sheared; 1 their people will be no more. But you, Judah: Though I have afflicted you, I will afflict you no more. 1
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13Now will I break that people's yoke from off you; I will break your chains.” 1
Cross References
2 Kings 19:35It came about that night that the angel of Yahweh went out and attacked the camp of the Assyrians, putting to death 185,000 soldiers. When the men arose early in the morning, dead bodies lay everywhere.
Isaiah 7:20At that time the Lord will shave with a razor that was hired beyond the Euphrates River—the king of Assyria— 1 the head and the hair of the legs; it will also sweep away the beard. 1
Isaiah 10:32This very day he will halt 1 at Nob and shake his fist at the mountain of the daughter of Zion, the hill of Jerusalem. 1
Isaiah 17:14In the evening, see, terror! Before the morning they will be gone! 1 This is the portion of those who loot us, the lot of those who rob us.
Isaiah 30:28His breath is like an overflowing torrent that reaches up to the middle of the neck, 1 to sift the nations with the sieve of destruction. His breath is a bridle in the jaws of the peoples to cause them to wander away. 1
Isaiah 37:36Then the angel of Yahweh went out and attacked the camp of the Assyrians, putting to death 185,000 soldiers. When the men arose early in the morning, dead bodies lay everywhere.
Matthew Henry on Nahum 1:10-15
Destruction of the Assyrian Army; Overthrow of Sennacherib. ( b. c. 710.) 9 What do ye imagine against the Lord ? he will make an utter end: affliction shall not rise up the second time. 10 For while they be folden together as thorns, and while they are drunken as drunkards, they shall be devoured as stubble fully dry. 11 There is one come out of thee, that imagineth evil against the Lord , a wicked counsellor. 12 Thus saith the Lord ; Though they be quiet, and likewise many, yet thus shall they be cut down, when… Read the whole commentary →