Nahum 1:9

“What do ye imagine against the Lord? etc.] O ye Ninevites or Assyrians; do you think you can frustrate the designs of the Lord, resist his power, and hinder him from executing what he has threatened and has determined to do? or what mischief is it you devise against his people, which is the same as against himself? can you believe that you shall prosper and succeed, and your schemes be carried into execution, when he, the all wise and all powerful Being, opposes you? he will make an utter end; of you, as before declared, and will save his people; which may be depended on will certainly be the case: affliction shall not rise up the second time; either this should be the last effort the…”

“The prophet had in few words summed up the close of Nineveh; he now upbraids them with the sin, which should bring it upon them, and foretells the destruction of Sennacherib. Nineveh had, before this, been the instrument of chastising Israel and Judah. Now, the capture of Samaria, which had cast off God, deceived and emboldened it. Its king thought that this was the might of his own arm; and likened the Lord of heaven and earth to the idols of the pagan, and said, “Who are they among all the gods of the countries, that have delivered their country out of mine hand, that the Lord should deliver Jerusalem out of mine hand?” 2 Kings 18:35. He sent “to reproach the living God” 2 Kings 19:16 and…”

“Against the Lord - What you imagine or design against his people, ye design against him? Make an utter end - He will bring you to utter desolation. Nahum 1:10”

“do: Nah 1:11; Psa 2:1-4, Psa 21:11, Psa 33:10; Pro 21:30; Isa 8:9, Isa 8:10; Eze 38:10, Eze 38:11; Act 4:25-28; Co2 10:5 he: Sa1 3:12, Sa1 26:8; Sa2 20:10 Nahum 1:10”

“The reason for all this is assigned in Nah 1:9. Nah 1:9. "What think ye of Jehovah? He makes an end; the affliction will not arise twice. Nah 1:10. For though they be twisted together like thorns, and as if intoxicated with their wine, they shall be devoured like dry stubble. Nah 1:11. From thee has one come out, who meditated evil against Jehovah, who advised worthlessness." The question in Nah 1:9 is not addressed to the enemy, viz., the Assyrians, as very many commentators suppose: "What do ye meditate against Jehovah?" For although châshabh 'el is used in Hos 7:15 for a hostile device with regard to Jehovah, the supposition that 'el is used here for ‛al, according to a later usage of…”