John Trapp on Nahum 1:3

Verſe 3. The Lord is ſlow to anger] Slack he is not, as ſome men count ſlackneſſe, ſaith St. Peter, but long-ſufferring to us-ward, &c. 2 Epiſt. 3.9, The devil ſtirred up the Heathen Poets, to perſwade people, that God either knew not, or cared not what was done here below: that he was oft from home, feaſting with the Ethiopians, &c. The Epicures alſo taught the like doctrine:Homer. and the Sadduces among the Jews, the Manichees among the primitive Chriſtians, the Libertines amongſt us. But they ſhall one day find that God is ſlow, but ſure; that the higher he lifteth his hand, the harder he will ſtrike; the further he draweth his bowe, the deeper will bee the wound.

and great in power] Heb. Great of power, able to knock down ſinners in the very act of their rebellion, and to ſend them packing to their place in hell. So that it is not for want of power that he is ſo patient. For the Lord our God is God of gods, and Lord of Lords, a great God, a mighty and a terrible, Deut. 10.17. But what need we go further then the Text, where he is called, the ſtrong God, great in power, And that will not at all acquit the wicked.] This is the laſt letter in his name (that nomen majeſtativum, as Tertullian calleth it,) Exod. 34.7. which he will in no wiſe forget: as neither muſt we. He will not take the wicked by the hand, ſaith Job, Job 8.20. nor wink at the workers of iniquity, ſaith David, Pſal. 50.21. but will render a juſt recompence to every tranſgreſſion and diſobedience, ſaith Paul, Heb. 2.2. A God of truth, and without iniquity, juſt and right is he, Deut. 32.4.

the Lord hath his way in the whirlwind, and in the ſtorm] The word Suphab here tendred whirlwind, begins with a ſmall Samech, ad minuendum timorem piis, Buxtorf. Tiberias. 167. ne propterea terreantur, to take off the Saints from their inordinate fears, and to aſſure the wicked, that when the Lord cometh, imminet inde Soph finis & exitium: there ſhall be an end of them, and an utter deſtruction. As the whirlwind paſſeth, ſo is the wicked no more: but the righteous is an everlaſting foundation, Prov. 10.25. Or, as ſome read it, The righteous is the foundation of the world, as firm as the worlds foundation, ſc. the earth, which is unmoveable.

and the clouds are the duſt of his feet] He walketh upon them as men do upon the duſt of the earth: he maketh the clouds his charet, and rideth upon the wings of the wind Pſal. 104.3. See Iſa. 60.8. and 19.1. The wickeds happineſſe ſhall take its end ſurely and ſwiftly, as Ezekiel tells them in his ſeventh chapter, An end is come, is come, is come.