Albert Barnes Commentary Nahum 3:11

"Thou also shalt be drunken; thou shalt be hid; thou also shalt seek a stronghold because of the enemy." — Nahum 3:11 (ASV)

You also - As you have done, so shall it be done to you. The cruelties inflicted on No, in the cycle of God’s judgments, bring similar consequences upon Nineveh, which inflicted them. Thou also shalt be drunken with the same cup of God’s anger, entering within you as wine does, depriving you of reason and counsel through the greatness of your anguish, and bringing shame on you, and a stupefaction like death. “Thou shalt be hid, a thing hidden” from the eyes of men, “as though you had never been.” Nahum had foretold her complete desolation: he had asked, where is she?

Here he describes an abiding condition; strangely fulfilled, as perhaps never to that extent in any other case. Her palaces, her monuments, and her records of her glorious triumphs still existed in their place, but they were hidden out of sight, as in a tomb, under the hill-like mounds along the Tigris. “Thou also shalt seek strength, or a stronghold from the enemy,” outside of yourself, since your own shall be weakness. Yet in vain, since God is not such to you (Nahum 1:7). They shall seek, but not find. “For then shall it be too late to cry for mercy, when it is the time of justice.” He shall have judgment without mercy, that hath shewed no mercy (James 2:13).