Monday, June 15, 2015

Woe to the city of blood, full of lies, full of plunder, never without victims

Nahum 3:1-19
Woe to the city of blood, full of lies, full of plunder, never without victims.
All because of the wanton list of a harlot(妓女肆意名單), alluring(誘人), the mistress of sorceries, who enslaved nations by her prostitution and peoples by her witchcraft.
You have increased the number of your merchants till they are more than the stars of the sky, but like locusts they strip the land and then fly away.
Everyone who hears the news about you claps his hands at your fall, for who has not felt your endless cruelty?
She will share the terrible fate she inflicted on the Egyptian city of Thebes. At Thebes, city of Amun, state-god of Egypt, the treasures of centuries had been accumulated. The Assyrians took the city with fire and slaughter and plundered all its wealth.)
Nahum pictures the city as a prostitute, enticing the nations into submission.
Now she will receive a prostitute's punishment.
Though the nation is as great as a swarm of locusts they will vanish like a swarm that has flown.
The final verse are addressed to the emperor. All is now lost for ever.
Why?
God is in reign, who is the sovereign Lord, Niveveh down fall by his sins and sorceries, cruelty, etc.
For all its might, Niveveh fell quickly into ruin after the Babylonians took it, leaving no trace but a mound which is known today as Tell Kuyunjik,'the mound of many sheep'.
The ancient tell, now known as Tell Kuyunjik, was occupied from the seventh millennium BC. A deep excavation at the site, carried out by Max Mallowan, established a chronology against which many of the other sites in north Mesopotamia are compared.
Nineveh is an ancient Mesopotamian city on the eastern bank of the Tigris River, and capital of the Neo-Assyrian Empire
How?
The Lord is righteousness and will destroy all the evil cities and nations. No doubt the judgement of the Lord will come.

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