Nahum 1:13 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

The Lord confirms the prediction, by declaring how it should be done. Now; ere long; and in few years after this was done, though we cannot precisely determine how soon it was. I will break, as that which is broken into pieces, his yoke, Sennacherib s, or rather the tyranny and oppression of the Assyrian kingdom, from off thee, O Israel, and Jerusalem. And will burst thy bonds; those unjust impositions and edicts, which, as strong bonds, fastened his heavy yoke upon thy neck. They are the bonds of Assyria, as laid upon Israel; they are Israel's bonds, as borne by Israel.