Nahum 3:15

"Draw water for the siege. Strengthen your fortresses. Go into the clay, and tread the mortar. Make the brick kiln strong."

Key Reflection

In Nahum 3:15, these commands urge Nineveh to prepare for an impending siege by reinforcing their defenses. However, the imagery suggests that even their efforts will be futile, highlighting the inevitability of judgment despite human fortifications.

From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

There -where thou didst fence thyself, and madest such manifold and toilsome preparation, Shall the fire devour thee. -All is toil within. The fire of God’s wrath falls and consumes at once. Mankind still, with mire and clay, build themselves Babels. “They go into clay,” and become themselves earthly like the mire they steep themselves in. They make themselves strong, as though they thought “that their houses shall continue forever”Psalms 49:11, and say, “So, take thine ease eat, drink and be merry”Luke 12:19-20. God’s wrath descends. “Thou fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee.

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