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Nahum 3

Introduction

This chapter goes on with the burden of Nineveh, and concludes it. I. The sins of that great city are charged upon it, murder , whoredom and witchcraft , and a general extent of wickedness, Nah. 3:19. II. Judgments are here threatened against it, blood for blood , and shame for shameful sins, Nah.

Verses 1–7

Here is, I. Nineveh arraigned and indicted. It is a high charge that is here drawn up against that great city, and neither her numbers nor her grandeur shall secure her from prosecution. 1.

Verses 8–19

Nineveh has been told that God is against her, and then none can be for her, to stand her in any stead; yet she sets God himself at defiance, and his power and justice, and says, I shall have peace.