Nineveh (2:11,12) become frightened women (3:13) and impregnable fortresses fall to the ground like ripe figs (3:12). ‘Who can withstand his indignation? Who can endure his fierce wrath?’ (1:6). The justice of God The LORD will not condemn the innocent, nor will he ‘leave the guilty unpunished’ (1:3). The ‘vile’ (1:14) and cruel (3:19) Assyrian empire, that ‘enslaved nations by prostitution and peoples by witchcraft’ (3:4), that propagated evil with no thought of justice (1:11), will be thrown to