What do ye imagine against the LORD? he will make an utter end: affliction shall not rise up the second time.
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Gill's Exposition
What do ye imagine against the Lord?.... 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…
Barnes' Notes
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,…
Adam Clarke
Affliction shall not rise up the second time - There shall be no need to repeat the judgment; with one blow God will make a full end of the business.
These verses seem to point at the destruction of the army of the Assyrians under Sennacherib, which may well be reckoned a part of the burden of Nineveh, the head city of the Assyrian empire, and a…
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