Nahum 2

"Where is the dwelling of the lions,
And the feeding place of the young lions,
Where the lion walked, the lioness and lion’s cub,
And no one made them afraid?" v.11

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Nineveh was destroyed around 612 B.C by an allied army composed of the Caledans and Babylonians.

The Lord seemed to have been speaking to the Rabshekah in chapter one who was the chief of the captains of Assryia who tried to turn the Jews from king Hezekiah.  The Companion Bible's commentary by E.W. Bullinger makes an interesting connection here in 2:11 with 2 Kings 18:34 of Sennacherib's taunt, "Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim and Hena and Ivah? Indeed, have they delivered Samaria from my hand?"  Lions here in Nahum 2 signify fierce people.   They [Assyrians] thought of themselves as a people able to tear and destroy all the people of the earth.  So Jehovah is using the same taunt as the Rabshekah did saying, Where's going to be your city and the dwelling of the lions when Nineveh is destroyed. 

Many plead the excuse that their fraud or unjust means for money is to provide for their family, but in the end it will never do them good for what they earned.  How have you seen unjust earnings that have led to downfall?