2:1 In sharp contrast to the call for Judah to celebrate is the ironic exhortation of Nineveh to prepare for an attack.

scatterer. The Assyrians, who destroyed many nations, including Israel, by scattering them over the face of the earth, will now experience a similar fate. In August, 612 b.c., the combined forces of the Medes and Babylonians destroyed Nineveh, and shortly afterward the Assyrian Empire collapsed.