Nahum 1:13

"And now will I break his yoke from off thee, and will burst thy bonds in sunder."

This is a continuation of the promise of deliverance to Judah promised in Nahum 1:9, and again in Nahum 1:12. Graham's criticism that Nahum possessed an inferior attitude in all this is groundless.

"Nationalistic prejudice has led him to assume in Jehovah a special, unmoral interest in his own people. Sympathy with his people had led him to conclude that Assyria's downfall meant Judah's happiness."[20]

Apparently Graham failed to appreciate the fierce denunciation of specific acts of wickedness which were enumerated under Nahum 1:3, above, and which recur continually throughout the prophecy, nor is there any indication whatever that Nahum did not apply those denunciations to similar sins of Israel and Judah. That he did not specifically state that fact in Nahum is no proof of the contrary. Nahum had announced his subject in the first line of the prophecy, "The Burden of Nineveh"; and it was altogether proper and appropriate that he should have stayed with his subject throughout.