Nahum 2:10-13

10 She is pillaged, plundered, stripped! Hearts melt, knees give way, bodies tremble, every face grows pale.

11 Where now is the lions’ den, the place where they fed their young, where the lion and lioness went, and the cubs, with nothing to fear?

12 The lion killed enough for his cubs and strangled the prey for his mate, filling his lairs with the kill and his dens with the prey.

13 “I am against you,” declares the LORD Almighty. “I will burn up your chariots in smoke, and the sword will devour your young lions. I will leave you no prey on the earth. The voices of your messengers will no longer be heard.”

Nahum 2:10-13 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO NAHUM 2

This chapter gives an account of the destruction of the city of Nineveh; describes the instruments of it as very terrible and powerful, and not to be resisted, Na 2:1-4. The manner of taking it, the flight of its inhabitants, and the spoil of its riches and treasures, Na 2:5-10 and the king and the princes thereof, compared to a lion, and a lion's whelp, are insulted as being without a den or dwelling place, because of their cruelty and ravening, for which the Lord was against them, and threatened them with utter ruin, which he brought upon them, Na 2:11-13.

Cross References

• 1. S Joshua 2:11; S Joshua 7:5
• 2. S Isaiah 29:22
• 3. Isaiah 5:29
• 4. S Jeremiah 51:34
• 5. S Jeremiah 4:7
• 6. S Isaiah 37:18
• 7. Isaiah 10:5-13; S Jeremiah 21:13; Nahum 3:5
• 8. Psalms 46:9
• 9. S 2 Samuel 2:26
• 10. S Micah 5:6