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   ocr: nemy Justice - Nahum 1 'The LORD is good, a retuge in times of trouble. He cares for those who trust in him, but he will pursue his foes into Jarkness. Nah. 1:7-8) Nahum had one uistinct advantage over most piblical prophets: he was addressing an enemy. The nation of Assyria had just obliterated the Northern Kingdom of Israel and, except for God's miraculous intervention in Hezekiah's day, would have done the same to Nahum's homeland of Judah. Assyria was an easy enemy to hate-something along the line of Hitler's Germany. Its soldiers decimated Cities, led captives away with hooks in their nos ...