Categoria: Nahum

 “Woe to the city of blood, full of lies, full of plunder, never without victims… many casualties, piles of dead… all because of the wanton lust of a harlot… I am against you says the Lord… I will pelt you with filth… Nineveh is in ruins… all your fortresses are like fig trees… your troops are all women… your gates are wide open… the fire will devour you and the sword will cut you down… your people are scattered on the mountains with no-one to gather them… everyone who hears the news will rejoice remembering Nineveh’s cruelty”.

 “Woe to the city of blood, full of lies, full of plunder, never without victims… many casualties, piles of dead… all because of the wanton lust of a harlot… I am against you says the Lord… I will pelt you with filth… Nineveh is in ruins… all your fortresses are like fig trees… your troops are all women… your gates are wide open… the fire will devour you and the sword will cut you down… your people are scattered on the mountains with no-one to gather them… everyone who hears the news will rejoice remembering Nineveh’s cruelty”.

The book of Nahum announce God’s judgment on the Assyrian capital of Nineveh. Nineveh had escaped judgement in the time of Jonah but now it had gone astray again and this time God was to punish them. “The Lord is a jealous and avenging God… even though he is slow to anger… but when he acts the mountains quake before him and the earth trembles… but the Lord is good and a refuge in time of trouble… but he will make an end of Nineveh… and they will be entangled in the thorns… and will be consumed like dry stubble… they will be cut down and pass away… the Lord commands Nineveh so that you will have no descendants… I will destroy the images and idols that are in the temple of your gods… but Judah should celebrate  your festivals and fulfill your vows because the wicked will be completely destroyed”.