Nahum 3

The prophet denounces a wo against Nineveh for her perfidy and violence. He musters up before our eyes the number of her chariots and cavalry; points to her burnished arms, and to the great and unrelenting slaughter which she spreads around her, Nahum 3:1-3 . Because Nineveh is a city wholly given up to the grossest superstition, and is an instructress of other nations in her abominable rites, therefore she shall come to a most ignominious and unpitied end, Nahum 3:3-7 . Her final ruin shall be similar to that of No, a famous city of Egypt, Nahum 3:8-11 . The prophet then beautifully describes the great ease with which the strong holds of Nineveh should be taken, Nahum 3:12 , and her judicial pusillanimity during the siege, Nahum 3:13 ; declares that all her preparation, her numbers, opulence, and chieftains, would be of no avail in the day of the Lord's vengeance, Nahum 3:14-17 ; and that her tributaries would desert her, Nahum 3:18 . The whole concludes with stating the incurableness of her malady, and the dreadful destruction consequently awaiting her; and with introducing the nations which she had oppressed as exulting at her fall, Nahum 3:19 .