SUMMARY
Afflicted Judah will find respite.
ANALYSIS
This verse sets the context for reading the entire book. Nahum does not describe what Judah did to warrant affliction from God. And Assyria had elsewhere been called an instrument of God, whose role was to oppress Judah (among others). Living in affliction is the context into which hope in the form of the end of Assyrian oppression is announced.
