Verse 5
"Behold, I am against thee, saith Jehovah of hosts, and I will uncover thy skirts upon thy face; and I will show the nations thy nakedness, and the kingdoms thy shame."
"Uncover thy skirts ..." "This seems to have been a part of the punishment for fornication and adultery (Jeremiah 13:22,26f; Ezekiel 16:36; and Hosea 2:8,9)."[14] Also, based upon Assyrian inscriptions and monuments, Billerbeck and Jeremias' conclusion was that, "It was an Assyrian method of treating female captives."[15] The execution of this terrible punishment "is carried out still further in literal terms in Nahum 3:6,7."[16] Taylor and others reject as totally un-Christian any idea of shameful and humiliating punishment like that in view here. "The statement of what this Deity does is poles removed from the New Testament account of God's character, e.g., in 1John."[17] Such views are not merely inaccurate, they are founded in a remarkable blindness to what Christian teaching actually is. Taylor cited the apostle John, but apparently did not know that the apostle John also detailed in the most extravagant language the judgment of the "Great Whore" in Revelation (Revelation 17-18), and then depicted the saints of all ages rejoicing in her overthrow:
"Hallelujah; for the Lord our God, the Almighty, reigneth. Let us rejoice and be exceeding glad, and let us give the glory unto him ... True and righteous are his judgments; for he hath judged the great harlot, her that corrupted the earth with her fornication, and he has avenged the blood of his servants at her hand" (Revelation 19:6,7,2)."Nineveh, the well-favored harlot will be exposed for what she is, a filthy vagrant, without beauty, virtue, or friend; and such will give rise to a taunting lament by the spectators."[18]
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