Nahum 2:1
The one who will dash you to pieces is coming up against you. 1 Man the city walls, guard the roads, 1 make yourselves strong, assemble your armies. 1
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Psalms 50:14Offer to God the sacrifice of thanksgiving, 1 and pay your vows to the Most High. 1
Isaiah 14:6that struck the peoples in wrath with unceasing blows, 1 that ruled the nations in anger, with an attack that was unrestrained. 1
Isaiah 29:8It will be like when a hungry man dreams he is eating, but when he awakes, his stomach is empty. 1 It will be like when a thirsty man dreams that he is drinking, but he when he awakes, he is fainting, with his thirst not quenched. 1 Yes, so will be the great number of nations that fights against Mount Zion. 1
Jeremiah 25:9see, I am about to send out a command to gather all the peoples of the north—this is Yahweh's declaration—with Nebuchadnezzar my servant, king of Babylon, and bring them against this land and its inhabitants, and against all the nations around you. For I will set them apart for destruction. I will turn them into a horror, an object for hissing, and an unending desolation.
Jeremiah 50:23How the hammer of all the lands has been cut apart and destroyed. 1 How Babylon has become a destroyed place among the nations. 1
Jeremiah 51:20You are my war hammer, my weapon for battle. 1 With you I will smash nations and destroy kingdoms. 1
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 →