God is good

Nahum 1:1-15
An oracle concerning Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum of Elkosh.
The Lord is slow to anger and great in power, and the Lord will by no means clear the guilty. His way is in whirlwind and storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet.
Who can  stand before his indignation? Who can endure the heat of his anger?
The Lord is good, a stronghold in the day of trouble; he knows those who take refuge in him.
The Lord has given commandment about you;"No more shall your name be perpetuated(延續); from the house of your gods I will cut off the carved images and the metal image. I will make your grave, for you are vile.".
But where Jonah records the city's reprieve, Nahum predicts its destruction. The date is somewhere between the fall of Thebes to the Assyrians in 663BC and the fall of Nineveh to the Babylonians and Medes in 612BC.
Nahum seems to have been a Judean, but apart from this we know nothing about him, except that he was capable of writing some of the most graphic poetry in the whole of the Old Testament.
Nahum starts, not with Ninebeh, but with God: his power, his anger, his goodness.
God says that the days of Assyria, whose armies destroyed Israel and threatened Jerusalem itself less than a century before, are now numbered.
Every phrase speaks God's power, over earth, seas, rivers, mountains. Bashan's rich pasture and forest turn brown at his presence as if stricken by drought. The hills me;d. God is his people's powerful protector.
An overwhelming flood: Impregnable Nineveh eventually fell when floodwater breached her walls, making way for the attacking army.
Why?
The Lord is slow to anger, God has mercy to seiners, but God will by no means clear the guilty so repent for our sins and turn to the Lord.
God has great power and no one can stand before his indignation(憤慨) for the evil. But God is goods and God is the stronghold in the day of trouble, he know those who take refuge in him.
How?
God is good, God is my king, my Lord. Praise be to the Lord!