Nahum 1:8

⁸ But with an overrunning flood he will make an utter end of the place thereof, and darkness shall pursue his enemies.

The Inner Meaning of the Prophets and Psalms #222

222. Internal Meaning of Nahum, Chapter 1 (1)

1-2 The last judgment upon those who are in evils. (15)

3-6 By virtue of His presence all things are revealed, and those who are of the perverted church will not endure. (15, 3)

7 The Lord will protect those who trust in Him, (11)

8-11 but those who are in falsities and evils will perish; (3)

12-14 those, however, who are not of that church, and are in falsities from ignorance, will be received, and their falsities will be removed. (11)

15 [See next chapter.] (1, 11)

Thanks to the Swedenborg Foundation for the permission to use this translation.