Nahum 1:2
The Lord is a jealous God, and a revenger: the Lord is a revenger, and hath wrath: the Lord taketh vengeance on his adversaries, and he is angry with his enemies.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
1The burden of Ninive. The book of the vision of Nahum the Elcesite.
Cross References
Exodus 34:7Who keepest mercy unto thousands: who takest away iniquity, and wickedness, and sin, and no man of himself is innocent before thee. Who renderest the iniquity of the fathers to the children, and to the grandchildren, unto the third and fourth generation.
Leviticus 26:28I will also go against you with opposite fury, and I will chastise you with seven plagues for your sins,
Deuteronomy 4:24Because the Lord thy God is a consuming fire, a jealous God.
Deuteronomy 32:34Are not these things stored up with me, and sealed up in my treasures?
Deuteronomy 32:41If I shall whet my sword as the lightning, and my hand take hold on judgment: I will render vengeance to my enemies, and repay them that hate me.
Job 20:23May his belly be filled, that God may send forth the wrath of his indignation upon him, and rain down his war upon him.
Matthew Henry on Nahum 1:2
Nahum The name of this prophet signifies a comforter; for it was a charge given to all the prophets, Comfort you, comfort you, my people: and even this prophet, though wholly taken up in foretelling the destruction of Nineveh, which speaks terror to the Assyrians, is, even in that, comforter to the ten tribes of Israel, who, it is probable, were now lately carried captives into Assyria. It is very uncertain at what time he lived and prophesied, but it is most probable that he lived in the time of Hezekiah, and… Read the whole commentary →