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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Nahum 3:11 - 3:11
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drunken - made to drink of the cup of Jehovah’s wrath (Isa 51:17, Isa 51:21; Jer 25:15).
hid - covered out of sight: a prediction remarkably verified in the state in which the ruins of Nineveh have been found [G. V. Smith]. But as “hid” precedes “seek strength,” etc., it rather refers to Nineveh’s state when attacked by her foe: “Thou who now so vauntest thyself, shalt be compelled to seek a hiding-place from the foe” [Calvin]; or, shalt be neglected and slighted by all [Maurer].
seek strength because of the enemy - Thou too, like Thebes (Nah 3:9), shalt have recourse to other nations for help against thy Medo-Babylonian enemy.