Behold I, Myself, am against you - (Literally, “toward you”). God, in His long-suffering, had, as it were, looked away from him; no…

The figure of the lion appears so frequently on the Assyrian monuments that we may perhaps suppose it to have been a national emblem. The metaphor …

And I will burn her chariots in the smoke, and the sword shall devour thy young lions: and I will cut off thy prey from the earth, and the voic…

To give more effect to what he says, the Prophet introduces God here as the speaker. Behold, he says, I am against you. He has be…

Behold, I [am] against you, says the Lord of hosts Against Nineveh, and the whole Assyrian empire, for such rapine, viole…

The kings of Assyria had long been terrible and cruel to their neighbors, but the Lord would destroy their power.