Read Nahum 1.9-15 Nineveh will be judged and Judah restored.
The audience shifts repeatedly in this brief speech from Nineveh to Judah and back again.
In verse 9 Nahum addresses the Ninevites (you is masculine plural in Hebrew).
In verse 10 Thorns (Isa 34.13), drunkards (Lam 4.21), and stubble (Ob 18)
are all images used for enemies whom God punishes.
In verse 11 Nahum addresses the city of Nineveh (you is now feminine singular)
and describes its king as one who has gone out.
In verses 12-13 while you is still feminine singular in form, Nahum is now addressing Judah, describing its new freedom from Assyrian control as a release from imprisonment.
In verse 14 Nahum turns to address the Assyrian king (you is now masculine singular).
In verse 15 the poem concludes with words of hope to Judah,
delivered by a member of the heavenly court.
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