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Nahum

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He who dashes in pieces has come up against you. Keep the fortress! Watch the way! Strengthen your waist! Fortify your power mightily! See also: Joel 3:9-11 2 Chronicles 25:8 Jeremiah 51:20-23For the LORD restores the excellency of Jacob as the excellency of Israel, for the destroyers have destroyed them and ruined their vine branches. See also: Ezekiel 37:23 Psalms 80:12-13 Zephaniah 3:11The shield of his mighty men is made red. The valiant men are in scarlet. The chariots flash with steel in the day of his preparation, and the pine spears are brandished. See also: Ezekiel 23:14-15 Isaiah 63:1-3 Isaiah 14:8The chariots rage in the streets. They rush back and forth in the wide ways. Their appearance is like torches. They run like the lightnings. See also: Jeremiah 4:13 Isaiah 66:15 Nahum 3:2-3He summons his picked troops. They stumble on their way. They dash to its wall, and the protective shield is put in place. See also: Jeremiah 46:12 Nahum 3:18 Jeremiah 51:27-28The gates of the rivers are opened, and the palace is dissolved. See also: Isaiah 45:1-2 2 Peter 3:10-11It is decreed: she is uncovered, she is carried away; and her servants moan as with the voice of doves, beating on their breasts. See also: Isaiah 38:14 Isaiah 59:11 Luke 23:48But Nineveh has been from of old like a pool of water, yet they flee away. “Stop! Stop!” they cry, but no one looks back. See also: Isaiah 48:20 Nahum 3:17 Jeremiah 51:13Take the plunder of silver. Take the plunder of gold, for there is no end of treasure, an abundance of every precious thing. See also: Daniel 11:8 Jeremiah 51:56 Nahum 2:12-13She is empty, void, and waste. The heart melts, the knees knock together, their bodies and faces have grown pale. See also: Daniel 5:6 Joel 2:6 Psalms 22:14Where is the den of the lions, and the feeding place of the young lions, where the lion and the lioness walked with the lion’s cubs, and no one made them afraid? See also: Isaiah 5:29 Jeremiah 2:15 Isaiah 31:4The lion tore in pieces enough for his cubs, and strangled prey for his lionesses, and filled his caves with the kill and his dens with prey. See also: Jeremiah 51:34 Psalms 17:12 Isaiah 10:6-14“Behold, I am against you,” says the LORD of Armies, “and I will burn her chariots in the smoke, and the sword will devour your young lions; and I will cut off your prey from the earth, and the voice of your messengers will no longer be heard.” See also: Psalms 46:9 Jeremiah 21:13 Nahum 3:5

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Notes · Haydock (1859, public domain)11 notes

Notes in English 19th-century Catholic commentary by Fr. George Leo Haydock, shown as published.

These notes keep the polemics of their time: some speak harshly of the Jewish people or of other Christians. The Church teaches otherwise today. The Jewish people may not be blamed for the death of Christ (Nostra Aetate 4; Catechism 597–598), and Christians of other communities are our brothers and sisters in the Lord (Unitatis Redintegratio 3). Christian unity

Nahum 2:1

Ver. 1. Face, O Juda. Sept. "who blows on thy face, (Gen. ii. 7.) freeing from misery." Here S.

Jerom's Gr. copy ends the chap. H. --- Watch. Behold Nabopolassar is about to attack thy enemies. Some think that Nahum addresses Ninive ironically. C. ---

Nabuchodonosor wasted all the environs, and then took the city (W.) after his other conquests. C. --- But his father is here denoted. H.

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Nahum 2:2

Ver. 2. Pride, &c. He hath punished Jacob for his pride; and therefore Ninive must not expect to escape. Or else, rendering the pride of Jacob means rewarding, that is, punishing Ninive for the pride they exercised against Jacob.

Ch. --- After the Assyrians had seized the ten tribes, they became more insolent, and are therefore punished. W. --- The haughty Phul, &c. had invaded the Israelites, and had taken them into captivity. This God will now resent, (C.) though he justly chastised his people by them. H.

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Nahum 2:3

Ver. 3. Mighty men. He speaks of the Chaldeans and Medes sent to destroy the Ninivites. Ch. ---

This is the common opinion. Yet it seems rather that the Ninivites are designated, as they were asleep and stumbled, &c. C. --- Stupified. That is, they drive on furiously, like men intoxicated with wine. Ch. --- Heb. "the fir-tree shall be shaken," or poisoned. Ps. cxix. 4. Sept. read better, (C.) "their horsemen shall be in a hurry, or in confusion." H. --- The armour was kept very shining, and the soldiers of Cyrus were clothed in purple, like himself. Xen. iii.

--- Yet this availed nothing, while the men were asleep or confounded. C.

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Nahum 2:4

Ver. 4. Streets. The Ninivites are disordered at the enemy's approach. S. Jer.

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Nahum 2:5

Ver. 5. Muster. Lit. " remember" (H.) the ancient heroes, Salmanasar, &c. C. ---

Stumble, by running hastily on. Ch. --- Prepared to defend the city. H. --- All this represents a city surprised.

It attempts to defend itself; but God renders all efforts vain. C.

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Nahum 2:6

Ver. 6. Gates; floodgates or channel of the Tigris overflowing. C. i. 8. --- Temple.

Sept.

"palace."

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Nahum 2:7

Ver. 7. Soldier. Heb. hutsab, (H.) "the station" or guard; the queen, or the statue of the idol, with the women (C.) who prostituted themselves in its honour.

Sanct. xxxi. --- Ninive and its dependances are taken. Grot.

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Nahum 2:8

Ver. 8. Waters: multitudes, (Apoc. xvii. 15.) and riches; (C.) or the flood bursting upon them makes them flee. H. --- The citizens run away when the enemy had made a breach, as water does when the dam is broken down; and though some more valiant will exhort them to tarry, they will not succeed, nor save the city. W.

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Nahum 2:10

Ver. 10. Kettle. In mourning they blacken their face. Tav. Perse.

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Nahum 2:11

Ver. 11. Lions. The kings of Assyria had plundered various nations, (H.) and had brought the spoils to Ninive. But all shall be lost. W. --- These princes followed no law but their own will.

--- The lion, Nabopolassar, or his son: though it seems rather to relate to the Assyrian monarchs.

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Nahum 2:13

Ver. 13. Chariots. Sept. "multitude." Some wild beasts were thus suffocated in their dens.

Theod. --- More, like that of the impious Rabsaces. 4 K. xviii. 17. C.

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License: Notes by Fr. George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), from the Douay-Rheims Bible with Haydock's commentary (first ed. Thomas Haydock, Manchester/Dublin, 1811–1814; New York: Edward Dunigan & Brother, 1859); New Testament notes compiled with Fr. Benedict Rayment. Public domain. Digital text: "The Haydock Bible", Internet Archive (archive.org/details/TheHaydockBible), uploaded 2011 under the Public Domain Mark. · Credits and licenses

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