Nahum 1:1

Nahum 1:1

1 The¹ burden ^aagainst Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite.

God’s Wrath on His Enemies

2 God is ^ajealous, and the Lord avenges;
The Lord avenges and is furious.
The Lord will take vengeance on His adversaries,
And He reserves wrath for His enemies;

3 The Lord is ^aslow to anger and ^bgreat in power,
And will not at all acquit the wicked.
^cThe Lord has His way
In the whirlwind and in the storm,
And the clouds are the dust of His feet.

Commentaries:

Adam Clarke

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The burden of Nineveh - massa not only signifies a burden, but also a thing lifted up, pronounced, or proclaimed; also a message. It is used by the prophets to signify the revelation which they have received from God to deliver to any particular people: the oracle - the prophecy. Here it signifies the declaration from God relative to the overthrow of Nineveh, and the commission of the prophet to deliver it.

As the Assyrians under Pul, Tiglath-pileser, and Shalmaneser, three of their kinds, had been employed by a just God for the chastisement of his disobedient people; the end being now accomplished by them, God is about to burn the rod wherewith he corrected Israel; and Nineveh, the capital of the Assyrian empire, is to be destroyed. This prediction appears to have been accomplished a short time after this by Nebuchadnezzar and Cyaxares, the Ahasuerus of Scripture.

Nahum, Nachum , signifies comforter. The name was very suitable, as he was sent to comfort the people, by showing them that God was about to destroy their adversaries.

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