the wickedness of Nineveh that God said was its fundamental problem and the reason why Jonah’s mission was needed (1:2). Despite its beauty and strength, Nineveh was a city under divine judgment. Its gods were idols, and the entire political and economic life of the city was based on the exploitation of weaker nations, military conquest, and slave labor. The prophet Nahum spared no words in describing Nineveh as the betrayer of nations and a city of harlotries (Nah. 3:4). Every form of vice and witchcraft