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1 This document is a declaration about Nineveh city which was given to Nahum from Elkosh as a vision.[ref]
2 Yahweh is a jealous[fn] God who avenges.
≈ Yahweh avenges and is full of anger.
He takes vengeance on his opponents,
≈ and he continues to be angry with his enemies.
3 Yahweh is slow to get angry, but very powerful.
He certainly won’t allow guilty people to go unpunished.
He walks among whirlwinds and storms,
≈ and clouds are like dust stirred up by his feet.
4 He scolds the ocean and makes it sand.
≈ He makes the flowers wilt in Lebanon.
5 The mountains shake when he appears,
≈ and the hills melt.
The ground heaves at his presence—
actually the entire world and all its residents.
6 What can withstand his indignation?
≈ Who can resist his fierce anger?
His anger is poured out like fire,
and rocks shatter in front of him.
7 Yahweh is good at sheltering us when trouble comes.
≈ He recognises those go to him for protection.
8 He’ll completely destroy his opponents with a rushing flood.
≈ He will chase his enemies into the darkness.
9 Whatever is plotted against Yahweh,
he’ll completely destroy it.
≈ Trouble won’t return a second time.
10 They’ll get tangled up as if in thorns,
They’ll be burnt up completely like dry stubble.
11 Someone in Nineveh made a decision,
Someone with wicked plans.
Even though the Assyrians are numerous and well equipped.
they’ll be destroyed anyway and will be no more.
Although I’ve afflicted you my people,
I won’t afflict you any more.
13 I’ll free your neck from their harness.
≈ I’ll snap their chains that are holding you.
14 Yahweh has given instructions about you, Nineveh.
You’ll have no more descendants to carry on your name.
I’ll destroy your idols and images in your temples.
I’ll dig your grave because you’re despised.
15 My people, look, a messenger is running across the hills.[ref]
He’ll be bringing good news—announcing peace.
So celebrate your festivals Yehudah, and keep your promises,
because that wicked country won’t invade you again—it’ll be destroyed.
1:2 Throughout the Hebrew Scriptures, Yahweh often compares peoples who worship idols (instead of him, the creator) similar to a spouse that has an affair.
1:3 OSHB variant note: ו/גדול: (x-qere) ’וּ/גְדָל’: lemma_c/1419 a morph_HC/Aamsc id_34W26 וּ/גְדָל
If you ask someone today what biblical prophets did, they will likely tell you that they divinely foretold of future events. While this was often the case, most prophets in the Bible focused as much on “forthtelling” God’s messages as they did on “foretelling” the future. That is, their primary role was to simply “forthtell” divinely acquired messages to leaders and groups of people, and at times that included foretelling of coming judgment, blessing, rescue, etc. Also, though plenty of prophets (sometimes called “seers” in Scripture) often spoke in confrontational or eccentric language that put them at odds with kings and religious leaders, the biblical writers also applied the term prophet to people who communicated God’s messages in ways that many readers today might not think of as prophecy, such as worship leaders appointed by David to “prophesy with lyres, harps, and cymbals” (1 Chronicles 25:1). Similarly, the books of Joshua, Judges, 1 & 2 Samuel, and 1 & 2 Kings are typically categorized as history by Christians, but in the Hebrew canon they belong to the category of Former Prophets. The Lord raised up prophets throughout all of biblical history, from the giving of the law under Moses to the revelation of the last days by the apostle John, and the kings of Israel and Judah often recognized and supported specific people as official prophets of the royal court and consulted them to find out God’s perspective about official matters. Following is a list of nearly everyone designated as prophet or seer in the Old Testament and the primary area of their ministry.
• Zechariah (796 B.C.) [2 Chronicles 24:20] => Jerusalem
• Jonah (780 B.C.) [2 Kings 14:25; Jonah 1:1] => Gath-hepher, Nineveh
• Hosea (770 B.C.) [Hosea 1:1] => Samaria?
• Amos (760 B.C.) [Amos 1:1] => Bethel
• Isaiah (730 B.C.) [2 Kings 19:2; 20:1; 2 Chronicles 26:22; 32:20, 32; Isaiah 1:1] => Jerusalem
• Micah (730 B.C.) [Jeremiah 26:18; Micah 1:1] => Moresheth
• Nahum (650 B.C.) [Nahum 1:1] => Elkosh (Capernaum?)
• Zephaniah (630 B.C.) [Zephaniah 1:1] => Jerusalem?
• Huldah (630 B.C.) [2 Kings 22:14] => Jerusalem
• Habakkuk (600 B.C.) [Habakkuk 1:1; 3:1] => Jerusalem?
• Ezekiel (592 B.C.) [Ezekiel 1:3] => Babylonia/Chebar River
• Uriah (600 B.C.) [Jeremiah 26:20] => Kiriath-jearim
• Jeremiah (587 B.C.) [2 Chronicles 36:12; Jeremiah 1:1; 19:14] => Jerusalem
• Obadiah (586 B.C.) [Obadiah 1:1] => Jerusalem
• Daniel (560 B.C.) [Daniel 7:1; Matthew 24:15] => Babylon
• Haggai (520 B.C.) [Ezra 5:1; Haggai 1:1] => Jerusalem
• Zechariah (520 B.C.) [Ezra 5:1; Zechariah 1:1] => Jerusalem
• Malachi (432 B.C.) [Malachi 1:1] => Jerusalem?