Nahum 1:4
He rebuketh the sea, and drieth it up: and bringeth all the rivers to be a desert. Basan languisheth and Carmel: and the dower of Libanus fadeth away.
Douay-Rheims 1899
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Job 38:11And I said : Hitherto thou shalt come, and shalt go no further, and here thou shalt break thy swelling waves.
Psalms 74:15Thou hast broken up the fountains and the torrents: thou hast dried up the Ethan rivers.
Psalms 106:9And he rebuked the Red Sea, and it was dried up: and he led them through the depths, as in a wilderness.
Psalms 114:5What ailed thee, O thou sea, that thou didst flee: and thou, O Jordan, that thou wast turned back?
Isaiah 33:9The land hath mourned, and languished: Libanus is confounded and become foul, and Saron is become as a desert: and Basan and Carmel are shaken.
Isaiah 50:2Because I came, and there was not a man: I called, and there was none that would hear. Is my hand shortened and become little, that I cannot redeem? or is there no strength in me to deliver? Behold at my rebuke I will make the sea a desert, I will turn the rivers into dry land: the fishes shall rot for want of water, and shall die for thirst.
Matthew Henry on Nahum 1:3-9
The Judgment of Nineveh; The Awful Power of God. ( b. c. 710.) 2 God is jealous, and the Lord revengeth; the Lord revengeth, and is furious; the Lord will take vengeance on his adversaries, and he reserveth wrath for his enemies. 3 The Lord is slow to anger, and great in power, and will not at all acquit the wicked: the Lord hath his way in the whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet. 4 He rebuketh the sea, and maketh it dry, and drieth up all the rivers: Bashan languisheth, and Carmel,… Read the whole commentary →