Nahum

To comfort the nations oppressed by Assyrian brutality with the announcement of Nineveh's certain fall - demonstrating that no empire can escape God's justice forever.

Nahum prophesies the total destruction of Nineveh — the Assyrian capital that had oppressed Israel and the ancient Near East for a century — declaring God's jealous justice against all who oppose Him.

Nahum is the companion book to Jonah — where Jonah showed God's mercy extended to Nineveh, Nahum shows that mercy rejected eventually gives way to irresistible judgment.