“And he will stretch out his hand against the north, and destroy Assyria; and will make Nineveh a desolation, and dry like a wilderness.”
And he will stretch out his hand against the north and destroy Assyria; and he will make Nineveh a desolation, a dry waste like the desert—the great Assyrian Empire and its capital Nineveh face complete destruction and desolation. The image of the stretched hand suggests divine agency; the reduction to desert-waste emphasizes total depopulation and desolation. This prophecy (contemporary with or shortly before Nineveh's actual fall) demonstrates that even the greatest empire proves vulnerable to divine judgment.
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