Nahum 1:9

"What do you plot against the LORD? He will make a full end. Affliction won’t rise up the second time."

Key Reflection

Nahum 1:9 highlights the inevitability of divine judgment on those who oppose God, suggesting that their plots will be thwarted and that any suffering they inflict will not persist indefinitely. Instead, the Lord promises to bring about a complete end to their schemes, ensuring ultimate justice and protection for His people.

From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

The prophet had in few words summed up the close of Nineveh; he now upbraids them with the sin, which should bring it upon them, and foretells the destruction of Sennacherib. Nineveh had, before this, been the instrument of chastising Israel and Judah. Now, the capture of Samaria, which had cast off God, deceived and emboldened it. Its king thought that this was the might of his own arm; and likened the Lord of heaven and earth to the idols of the pagan, and said, “Who are they among all the gods of the countries, that have delivered their country out of mine hand, that the Lord should deliver Jerusalem out of mine hand?”2 Kings 18:35.

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