Nahum 2
SIBVer. 1, 2. Ye Assyrians, who have destroyed the kingdom of Israel and repeatedly harassed Judah, may now exert your whole power to protect your own country and cities; for the Medes and Chaldeans, those terrible destroyers of nations, have begun to invade and besiege you. 3, 4. Red in their apparel and armour, and ready to shed your blood, they shall enter your cities amidst torches and flames of fire, and shall, with the most terrible rapidity and fury, destroy whatever they meet with. 5, 6. While the choicest troops of Media and Chaldea shall furiously attack your walls, ye shall exert yourselves for their defence: but the high swollen river shall open for them an entrance into the city, and assist them in its utter destruction
Nahum 2:7-10
Nineveh, and her inhabitants, shall be utterly disgraced; her fine ladies and warriors, who thought themselves secure, shall in great agonies of grief, hasten away, or be led captives: and, notwithstanding all that their generals can do to make them stand in their own defence, the numerous armies and inhabitants shall flee with the utmost precipitation. And, while the Assyrians are quite dispirited and overwhelmed with grief, the Medes and Chaldeans shall seize on their wealth, and reduce Nineveh to a heap of ruins
Nahum 2:11-13
The nations around shall rejoice to see Nineveh, in which their oppressive and murderous tyrants had long dwelt securely, and stored up their wealth, utterly destroyed. For I the Lord will abandon their armies to destruction, and give up all their ill-gotten wealth into the hand of their enemies; and never more shall their messengers blaspheme my great name, or terrify the nations with their threatenings or oppressive demands
REFLECTIONS UPON CHAP. II.—Alas, what fearful punishment do injuries done to God’s people incur! And at what expense and labour do men destroy one another! But terrible are the weakest nations when God animates them; and pitiful and dastardly the most mighty and numerous when he fights against them. Unavailing are honour, wealth, number, or valour, in the day of his wrath. And it is terrible to have our conscience laden with guilt in an evil day, in which every thing dear is taken from us. Awful is it for men to damn their souls by fraudulent attempts to aggrandize themselves and families: and dreadful is the case of oppressors, murderers, and blasphemers, when God rises up to punish them, and when death and hell shut their mouths!