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What do you plot against Yahweh? He will make a full end. Affliction won`t rise up the second time.
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A Fight Against God
Commentators emphasize that Assyria's aggression was not just against a nation, but 'against Jehovah' Himself. The prophet asks, 'What do you devise against the Lord?' to show the futility of their plans. For believers, this is a source of great comfort: when the Church is attacked, our enemies are ultimately contending with God, who is our defender.
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Nahum
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18th Century
Presbyterian
The prophet had in few words summed up the end of Nineveh; he now upbraids them with the sin, which would bring it upon them, and foretells the des…
19th Century
Anglican
Affliction — i.e., Nineveh’s affliction of Israel, the same Hebrew word being used in Nahum 1:7 to denote Israel’s “troub…
16th Century
Protestant
Some interpreters also consider this verse in this way, as though the Prophet had said that the calamity of the chosen people would not be a comple…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
What do you imagine against the Lord ? &c.] O you Ninevites or Assyrians; do you think you can frustrate the designs of t…
There is a great deal plotted against the Lord by the gates of hell, and against his kingdom in the world, but it will prove to be in vain. With so…
