He describeth the victories of the Chaldeans against the Assyrians.

The [a]destroyer is come before thy face: keep the munition: look to the way: make thy loins strong: increase thy strength mightily.

For the Lord hath [b]turned away the glory of Jacob, as the glory of Israel: for the emptiers have emptied them out, and [c]marred their vine branches.

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Footnotes

  1. Nahum 2:1 That is, Nebuchadnezzar is in readiness to destroy the Assyrians: and the Prophet derideth the enterprises of the Assyrians which prepared to resist him.
  2. Nahum 2:2 Seeing God hath punished his own people Judah and Israel, he will now punish the enemies by whom he scourged them, read Isa. 10:12.
  3. Nahum 2:2 Signifying, that the Israelites were utterly destroyed.

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