Nahum 3:18–19 God protects those who place their trust in Him!

God’s eyes are on His children and He protects His own.

What does He require of us?

Micah 6:8

8 He has shown you, O man, what is good; 

And what does the Lord require of you 

But to do justly,

To love mercy, 

And to walk humbly with your God?

Nahum 3:18–19

18 Your shepherds slumber, O king of Assyria; Your nobles rest in the dust. Your people are scattered on the mountains, And no one gathers them. 19 Your injury has no healing, Your wound is severe. All who hear news of you Will clap their hands over you, For upon whom has not your wickedness passed continually? The New King James Version

The portrayal of nobles as shepherds was a common motif in the ancient Near East. The one who attacks and scatters has scattered the inhabitants of Nineveh. The region of Nineveh is bordered on the north and east by steep mountains. Everyone who learns of Nineveh’s fall will celebrate. Faithlife Study Bible

When the shepherds are not alert, the sheep cannot be saved from danger. Every nation and people that had suffered under the abusive power of Nineveh would shout and clap upon hearing of the city’s destruction. There would be no mourning for Nineveh. The NKJV Study Bible

Strong-holds, even the strongest, are no defence against the judgments of God. They shall be unable to do any thing for themselves. The Chaldeans and Medes would devour the land like canker-worms. The Assyrians also would be eaten up by their own numerous hired troops, which seem to be meant by the word rendered “merchants.” Those that have done evil to their neighbours, will find it come home to them. Nineveh, and many other cities, states, and empires, have been ruined, and should be a warning to us. Are we better, except as there are some true Christians amongst us, who are a greater security, and a stronger defence, than all the advantages of situation or strength? When the Lord shows himself against a people, every thing they trust in must fail, or prove a disadvantage; but he continues good to Israel. He is a strong-hold for every believer in time of trouble, that cannot be stormed or taken; and he knoweth those that trust in Him. Matthew Henry’s Concise Commentary

1 Kings 22:17 

Then he said, “I saw all Israel scattered on the mountains, 

as sheep that have no shepherd. 

And the LORD said, ‘These have no master. 

Let each return to his house in peace.’ ”

Lamentations 2:15 

All who pass by clap their hands at you;

They hiss and shake their heads

At the daughter of Jerusalem:

“Is this the city that is called‘The perfection of beauty,

The joy of the whole earth’?”

Micah 1:9 

For her wounds are incurable.

For it has come to Judah;

It has come to the gate of My people—

To Jerusalem.

One Saturday, a mother asked her young son to polish her Sunday shoes. When he finished, she handed him fifty cents for a job well done.
Sunday morning, slipping on her shoes, she felt a block. Reaching in, she removed a wadded paper. Inside the paper she found fifty cents. On the paper, in her son's lettering, "Dear Mom, here is your mommy. I done it for love."

Our dance—with wholeheartedness and openheartedness—comes from that place. That place where we have no one to impress and nothing to prove.
That place where the voice of our limitations—whether fear or impatience or insecurity or shame or pain—does not win.
Or, in the words of Kitty Lunn, dance teacher from a wheelchair, "The dance inside me doesn't know or care that I fell down the stairs and have a spinal cord injury. She just wants to keep on dancing."
Dancing is the perfect visual and metaphor for light spilling to the world around us. Sabbath Moments