Nahum 2:6-13

6 The river gates are opened, the palace is in dismay;

7 its mistress is stripped, she is carried off, her maidens lamenting, moaning like doves, and beating their breasts.

8 Nin'eveh is like a pool whose waters run away. "Halt! Halt!" they cry; but none turns back.

9 Plunder the silver, plunder the gold! There is no end of treasure, or wealth of every precious thing.

10 Desolate! Desolation and ruin! Hearts faint and knees tremble, anguish is on all loins, all faces grow pale!

11 Where is the lions' den, the cave of the young lions, where the lion brought his prey, where his cubs were, with none to disturb?

12 The lion tore enough for his whelps and strangled prey for his lionesses; he filled his caves with prey and his dens with torn flesh.

13 Behold, I am against you, says the LORD of hosts, and I will burn your chariots in smoke, and the sword shall devour your young lions; I will cut off your prey from the earth, and the voice of your messengers shall no more be heard.

Nahum 2:6-13 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.