2 Kings 19:33

Because of your raging against me, and because your arrogance has come up into my ears, therefore I will put my hook in your nose, and my bridle in your lips, and I will turn you back by the way by which you came.’

I will put hooks in your jaws, and I will make the fish of your rivers stick to your scales. I will bring you up out of the middle of your rivers, with all the fish of your rivers which stick to your scales.

“Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and preach against it, for their wickedness has come up before me.”

throwing down imaginations and every high thing that is exalted against the knowledge of God and bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ,

Behold, I will put a spirit in him, and he will hear news, and will return to his own land. I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land.” ’ ”

Can you put a rope into his nose, or pierce his jaw through with a hook?

I will turn you around, and put hooks into your jaws, and I will bring you out, with all your army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed in full armor, a great company with buckler and shield, all of them handling swords;

The Lord Yahweh has sworn by his holiness that behold, “The days shall come on you that they will take you away with hooks, and the last of you with fish hooks.

Out of that land he went into Assyria, and built Nineveh, Rehoboth Ir, Calah,

They each killed his man. The Syrians fled, and Israel pursued them. Ben Hadad the king of Syria escaped on a horse with horsemen.

So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went and returned, and lived at Nineveh.

He also wrote letters insulting Yahweh, the God of Israel, and speaking against him, saying, “As the gods of the nations of the lands, which have not delivered their people out of my hand, so shall the God of Hezekiah not deliver his people out of my hand.”

Who can strip off his outer garment? Who will come within his jaws?

Arise, Yahweh, in your anger. Lift up yourself against the rage of my adversaries. Awake for me. You have commanded judgment.

Don’t be like the horse, or like the mule, which have no understanding, who are controlled by bit and bridle, or else they will not come near to you.

The nations raged. The kingdoms were moved. He lifted his voice and the earth melted.

You still the roaring of the seas, the roaring of their waves, and the turmoil of the nations.

Your adversaries have roared in the middle of your assembly. They have set up their standards as signs.

Don’t forget the voice of your adversaries. The tumult of those who rise up against you ascends continually.

For, behold, your enemies are stirred up. Those who hate you have lifted up their heads.

He will consume the glory of his forest, and of his fruitful field, both soul and body. It will be as when a standard bearer faints.

His breath is as an overflowing stream that reaches even to the neck, to sift the nations with the sieve of destruction. A bridle that leads to ruin will be in the jaws of the peoples.

They put him in a cage with hooks, and brought him to the king of Babylon. They brought him into strongholds, so that his voice should no more be heard on the mountains of Israel.

You have magnified yourselves against me with your mouth, and have multiplied your words against me. I have heard it.”

A revelation about Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite.

But Nineveh has been from of old like a pool of water, yet they flee away. “Stop! Stop!” they cry, but no one looks back.

The men of Nineveh will stand up in the judgment with this generation, and will condemn it, for they repented at the preaching of Jonah; and behold, someone greater than Jonah is here.

But they were filled with rage, and talked with one another about what they might do to Jesus.

If the world hates you, you know that it has hated me before it hated you.

“You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit! As your fathers did, so you do.

Indeed, we put bits into the horses’ mouths so that they may obey us, and we guide their whole body.