Nahum 1:11
One has gone out from you who is designing evil against the Lord, whose purposes are of no value.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
There is one come out of thee, that imagineth evil against the LORD, a wicked counsellor.
In Context
Cross References
1 Samuel 2:12Now the sons of Eli were evil and good-for-nothing men, having no knowledge of the Lord.
2 Kings 18:13Now in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah, Sennacherib, king of Assyria, came up against all the walled towns of Judah and took them.
2 Kings 19:22Against whom have you said evil and bitter things? against whom has your voice been loud and your eyes lifted up? even against the Holy One of Israel.
2 Chronicles 32:15So do not be tricked by Hezekiah or let him get you to do this, and do not put any faith in what he says: for no god of any nation or kingdom has been able to keep his people safe from my hands, or the hands of my fathers: how much less will your God keep you safe from my hands!
Nahum 1:9What are you designing against the Lord? he will put an end to it: his haters will not come up again a second time.
Matthew Henry on Nahum 1:10-15
Destruction of the Assyrian Army; Overthrow of Sennacherib. ( b. c. 710.) 9 What do ye imagine against the Lord ? he will make an utter end: affliction shall not rise up the second time. 10 For while they be folden together as thorns, and while they are drunken as drunkards, they shall be devoured as stubble fully dry. 11 There is one come out of thee, that imagineth evil against the Lord , a wicked counsellor. 12 Thus saith the Lord ; Though they be quiet, and likewise many, yet thus shall they be cut down, when… Read the whole commentary →