Nahum
3 – The Woe of Nineveh.
The
Assyrian goddess of sex and war was Ishtar, a harlot. God would expose
Assyria’s shame and make her vile.
How
could drunken soldiers hope to win a war! The nation had to drink God’s cup of
wrath (Jer. 25:15-29).
Ripe
figs will fall easily when the tree is shaken, and these figs would fall right
into the farmer’s mouth! Nineveh’s defenses were inadequate, and the city would
fall right into the enemy’s hands.
Assyria
had swarmed on other nations and stripped them, but now an army would swarm on
them and empty the city of people and wealth. The great Assyrian leaders would
be like cold locusts in a stupor: but when the heat came, they would wake up
and try to escape. The mighty nation was just a swarm of weak insects!
The
shepherds (leaders) were dead, and the sheep were scattered. Nobody would care
for them or gather them.
Wounded
and sick, the nation was about to die; there was no way to bring healing.
Jeremiah used the same image concerning God’s people, but he promised that God
would heal them (Jer. 30:12-17). For Nineveh, there was no promise of hope.
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