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There the fire will devour you. The sword will cut you off. It will devour you like the grasshopper. Multiply like grasshoppers. Multiply like the locust.
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Human Defenses Are Futile
Commentators emphasize the word "there." In the very places Nineveh fortified and felt most secure, God's judgment of fire and sword would consume them. This serves as a powerful reminder that no human preparation, stronghold, or army can stand against the determined judgment of God.
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Nahum
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18th Century
Presbyterian
There—where you fenced yourself, and made such extensive and laborious preparation,
The fire shall devour you.—All is toil wit…
19th Century
Anglican
The shift in metaphor here is somewhat jarring to modern sensibilities. The sword, like the locust, will devour Nineveh. Yet Nineveh is immediately…
Baptist
What marvelous poetry is this! How terrible! Their soldiers, their rulers, their captains, were as many as the locusts and the grasshoppers; but wh…
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16th Century
Protestant
The Prophet continues with the same subject: that the Ninevites would work in vain, while striving anxiously and with every effort to defend themse…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
There shall the fire devour thee: In the strong holds, made ever so firm and secure; either the fire of divine wrath; or …
Strongholds, even the strongest, are no defense against the judgments of God. They will be unable to do anything for themselves.
The Chaldea…
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