Naum 3:11

11 Tu também serás embriagada, e ficarás escondida; e buscarás um refúgio do inimigo.

Naum 3:11 Meaning and Commentary

Nahum 3:11

Thou also shalt be drunken
This is said to Nineveh, whose turn would be next to drink of the cup of the wrath of God, and be inebriated with it, so that they should not know where they were, or what they did; and be as unable to guide and help themselves as a drunken man. So the Targum,

``thou also shalt be like to a drunken man;''

this was literally true of Nineveh when taken; see ( Nahum 1:10 ) : thou shalt be hid;
or, "thou shall be", as if thou wast not; as Nineveh is at this day, "hid" from the sight of men, not to be seen any more. So the Targum,

``thou shall be swallowed up or destroyed.''

The Septuagint, Vulgate Latin, and Arabic versions, render it "despised"; or the meaning is, she should "hide herself" ^F23; or be lurking about through shame, as drunken, or through fear of her enemies: thou also shall seek strength because of the enemy;
seek to others to help them against the enemy, not being able with their own strength to face them: or, seek strength "of the enemy" ^F24; beg their lives of him, and their bread; pray for quarter, and desire to be taken under his protection; to so low and mean a state and condition should Nineveh and its inhabitants be reduced, who had given laws to all about them, and had been a terror to them.

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FOOTNOTES:

F23 (hmlen) "latitans", Junius & Tremellius, Piscator; "abscondes te", Vatablus; "eris abscondita", Burkius.
F24 (bywam) (ex ecyrwn) , Sept.; "ab hoste", Montanus, Calvin, Drusius, Grotius, Cocceius.

Naum 3:11 In-Context

9 Etiópia e Egito eram a sua força, que era inesgotável; Pute e Líbia eram teus aliados.

10 Todavia ela foi levada, foi para o cativeiro; também os seus pequeninos foram despedaçados nas entradas de todas as ruas, e sobre os seus nobres lançaram sortes, e todos os seus grandes foram presos em grilhões.

11 Tu também serás embriagada, e ficarás escondida; e buscarás um refúgio do inimigo.

12 Todas as tuas fortalezas serão como figueiras com figos temporãos; sendo eles sacudidos, caem na boca do que os há de comer.

13 Eis que as tuas tropas no meio de ti são como mulheres; as portas da tua terra estão de todo abertas aos teus inimigos; o fogo consome os teus ferrolhos.