Albert Barnes Commentary Nahum 1:11

"There is one gone forth out of thee, that deviseth evil against Jehovah, that counselleth wickedness." — Nahum 1:11 (ASV)

There is one who has come from you—that is, Nineveh—who imagines (devises) evil against the Lord; this is Sennacherib, and he is against the rod of God’s anger (Isaiah 10:5–7), yet who meant not so, as God meant. And this was his counsel, as is every counsel of Satan: that they could not resist him, and so should withdraw from the land of God, into a land like their own (Isaiah 36:16–17), but whose joy and sweetness, its vines and its fig-trees, should not be from God, but from the Assyrian, that is, from Satan.