The Lord will restore the splendor of Jacob like the splendor of Israel, though destroyers have laid them waste and have ruined their vines.
It is decreed that Nineveh be exiled and carried away. Her female slaves moan like doves and beat on their breasts. Nineveh is like a pool whose water is draining away. “Stop! Stop!” they cry, but no one turns back.
“I am against you,” declares the Lord Almighty. “I will burn up your chariots in smoke, and the sword will devour your young lions. I will leave you no prey on the earth. The voices of your messengers will no longer be heard.”
The prophet's description uses every resource os sound and vision: we can see and hear, almost smell, the onslaught. Once, God had used the armies of Assyria to punish his people. Now the forces attacking Nineveh are his instruments. Blood and thunder: plunder and desolation; the den of the Assyrian lion is no more. Nahum's scenes are vivid to the eye and to the imagination - even to the walling slave-girls.
Why?
Assyria is a tool of the Lord to punish Nineveh, those who were proud of his property and rich will become a desolation.
Nahum describes the situation of Nineveh is vivid and like the real war field.
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尼尼微是亞述的首都。
巴比倫軍隊耀耀慾試，對比亞述軍隊的慌亂。此時北國已經不存在了。神為以色列伸冤。兩個外邦強國的戰爭與神的選民有關。
尼尼微被擄掠的過程。
平日以為有價值的財寶，災難時成為累贅。為誰辛苦為誰忙？
原來不可一世的獅子，小獅子可到處走，無人敢惹，如尼尼微人，如今在哪裡，所有東西都被拿走。
我們不是不努力，要知道我們為誰而做，只有為主做的才能常存。
How?
Be aware on the day of the Lord, this world will be destroyed and any evil and sin in this world will be erased like a flood, it is a terrible day. God is the sovereign Lord forever.
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