Last post I ended by quoting the last verse of Nahum which reads, “Nothing can heal your wound; your injury is fatal. Everyone who hears the news about you claps his hands at your fall, for who has not felt your endless cruelty?” We see here that Nineveh is not only going to be fatally wounded, but that everyone else is going to rejoice in this. Nineveh was not a place loved by those who did not belong, and there are many reasons for this.

When we get to chapter 3 of Nahum, we see Nineveh is known as the bloody city. We also see that they are full of lies and plunder everyone. That they have heaps of corpses and dead bodies without end. To they point they stumble over the dead bodies. They are also a city full of prostitutes and whoring, along with sorcery and witchcraft. Not a place you would want to be caught in. I think it is safe to say this city was full of evil.

After Nineveh is described, we see what God’s plan is for them in verses 5-6, which reads, “Behold, I am against you, declares the Lord of hosts, and will lift up your skirts over your face; and I will make nations look at your nakedness and kingdoms at your shame. I will throw filth at you and treat you with contempt and make you a spectacle.” We see hear that God is going to make a spectacle out of them, by exposing them for who they are. In verse 6 where it says “I will throw filth at you,” means I will through human excrement at you… disgusting!

Nineveh is not only going to be destroyed, but humiliated, and in their humiliation people will rejoice. We see an extremely harsh judgment coming down to Nineveh, but it is well deserved, and just like Nineveh, each of us deserve utter destruction and humiliation. But thankfully Jesus took on our punishment for us on the cross. Next week we will go a little into how this prophesy was an encouragement.

Thanks for reading,

Pastor Josh