Old Testament
Nahum is the sequel to Jonah: the great city of Nineveh, once spared when it repented, has returned to its brutal cruelty, and now Nahum announces its fall. The book holds together two truths about God. He is 'slow to anger, and great in power' — patient — yet he 'will by no means leave the guilty unpunished'; his patience has a limit, and violent oppressors will answer to him. And the same God is good: 'a stronghold in the day of trouble,' who 'knows those who take refuge in him.' For the victims of Assyria's terror, the fall of Nineveh is good news, and God himself is the refuge. Nahum assures the oppressed that God sees, that evil will not triumph forever, and that he is a sure shelter for all who trust him.
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