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Funeral Song (3:1-4) Taunting Nineveh, Nahum ‘mourns’ its fall with a dirge. For its bloody crimes
against mankind, Nineveh suffers a bloody end.

Judgment: Disgraced (3:5-7) YHWH announces opposition to Nineveh, (I’m against you) and His coming
judgment, picturing her as a prostitute, shamed and abandoned in ruin.

Assyria Taunted (3:8-13) Although Assyria has protection from foes, like Thebes (Egypt), Nineveh will
fall, devoured and neutered

Call to Alarm (3:14-17) Nahum, as watchman, calls the Assyrians to alarm. War is here! In spite of
defenses, the city will be defeated, devoured, left empty.

Assyria’s King Taunted (3:18-19) YHWH taunts Assyria’s king: His nobles are dead, people scattered, his
wound fatal, his enemies (victims of his unceasing evil) cheer his defeat, death.

The Book of Nahum

HABAKKUK

Prophet: Habakkuk (unknown; cf. apocryphal Bel and Dragon, visits Daniel in
lion’s den) Date: late 7th – early 6th c. B.C. (Judah’s last days, between 612-
Nineveh and 586-Jerusalem)

Genre/Form: Dialogue Cycles (Most prophets speak to the people about God, but Habakkuk speaks to
God about the people)

Theme: Trusting God… regardless of the circumstances

Message: Even amidst divine silence and perceived injustice, God’s people can trust His sovereign
purposes!

Where’s Your Justice? (1:2-4) The prophet Habakkuk protests divine silence in the face of increasing
injustice. He cries out to God for help but receives no answer. Amidst widespread wickedness among

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