Nahum 1:9-10 What do you imagine against the LORD? he will make an utter end: affliction shall not rise up the second time.… Sin, when it is mightiest and most successful, is transitory. Lord Rosebery has been telling us the story of Napoleon the Great. His energy, his intellect, his genius were such that he "enlarges the scope of human achievement." Once he "fought the Austrians for five consecutive days without taking off his boots or closing his eyes." "He was as much the first ruler as the first captain in the world." "Ordinary measures do not apply to him; we seem to be trying to span a mountain with a tape." Napoleon was the largest personal force that has come into the modern European world. But his career ended in defeat and exile. At forty-six the man who had dreamed of governing a continent was a captive. His conquests left no mark. The kings whom he made lost their thrones. France was beggared and exhausted by him. Why? Because God was not his God. "I am not a man like other men," he asserted himself; "the laws of morality could not be intended to apply to me." Therefore I will fear nothing, though wickedness seems to prosper for a time. Such prosperity has no permanence about it. It is better to walk humbly with God than to stand alone on the proudest eminence in the world. (A. Smellie, M. A.) Parallel Verses KJV: What do ye imagine against the LORD? he will make an utter end: affliction shall not rise up the second time.WEB: What do you plot against Yahweh? He will make a full end. Affliction won't rise up the second time. |
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