imagine. devise. Compare Psalms 2:1.
affliction. distress, or trouble; Hebrew. zarar, as in Nahum 1:7, i.e. the trouble that now threatens Nineveh.
the second time. Referring to the rising up after Jonah's proclamation. Compare "rise", Jeremiah 51:64. Same word as "abide", Nahum 1:6, above.