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Nahum 1:12 KJV
Nahum · chapter 1 · verse 12
Thus saith the LORD; Though they be quiet, and likewise many, yet thus shall they be cut down, when he shall pass through. Though I have afflicted thee, I will afflict thee no more.Nahum 1:12 · King James Version
Nahum 1:12 in context
10For while they be folden together as thorns, and while they are drunken as drunkards, they shall be devoured as stubble fully dry.
11There is one come out of thee, that imagineth evil against the LORD, a wicked counsellor.
12Thus saith the LORD; Though they be quiet, and likewise many, yet thus shall they be cut down, when he shall pass through. Though I have afflicted thee, I will afflict thee no more.
13For now will I break his yoke from off thee, and will burst thy bonds in sunder.
14And the LORD hath given a commandment concerning thee, that no more of thy name be sown: out of the house of thy gods will I cut off the graven image and the molten image: I will make thy grave; for thou art vile.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- afflictedʻânâhto depress literally or figuratively, transitive or intransitiveH6031 →
- throughʻâbarto cross overH5674 →
- saithʼâmarto sayH559 →
- quietshâlêmcompleteH8003 →
- LORDYᵉhôvâhJehovah, Jewish national name of GodH3068 →
- manyrababundantH7227 →
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These verses seem to point at the destruction of the army of the Assyrians under Sennacherib, which may well be reckoned a part of the burden of Nineveh, the head city of the Assyrian empire, and a pledge of the destruction of Nineveh itself about 100 years after;
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 9-15