Nahum 2:1 (GNV)

Passage

The destroyer is come before thy face: keepe the munition: looke to the way: make thy loynes strong: increase thy strength mightily.

Nearby Context

Nahum 2:1 The destroyer is come before thy face: keepe the munition: looke to the way: make thy loynes strong: increase thy strength mightily.

Nahum 2:2 For the Lord hath turned away the glorie of Iaakob, as the glorie of Israel: for the emptiers haue emptied them out, and marred their vine branches.

Nahum 2:3 The shield of his mightie men is made red: the valiant men are in skarlet: the charets shalbe as in the fire and flames in the day of his preparation, and the firre trees shall tremble.

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "destroyer", "come", "before", "face", "keepe", "munition", "looke", and "make". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "destroyer" and "come", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The next verse adds "For the Lord hath turned away the...", so "destroyer" and "come" should be read forward into that movement. In Nahum context, the local focus is covenant, worship, and faithfulness.

A plain takeaway is to answer the verse's own emphasis on "destroyer" and "come" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.