Nahum 1:8
But with a flood that passeth by, he will make an utter end of the place thereof: and darkness shall pursue his enemies.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
7The Lord is good and giveth strength in the day of trouble: and knoweth them that hope in him.
Cross References
1 Samuel 2:9He will keep the feet of his saints, and the wicked shall be silent in darkness, because no man shall prevail by his own strength.
Proverbs 4:19The way of the wicked is darksome: they know not where they fall.
Isaiah 8:22And they shall look to the earth, and behold trouble and darkness, weakness and distress, and a mist following them, and they cannot fly away from their distress.
Isaiah 28:18And Sour league with death shall be abolished, and your covenant with hell shall not stand: when the overflowing scourge shall pass, you shall be trodden down by it.
Ezekiel 13:13Therefore thus saith the Lord God: Lo, I will cause a stormy wind to break forth in my indignation, and there shall be an overflowing shower in my anger: and great hailstones in my wrath to consume.
Daniel 11:10And his sons shall be provoked, and they shall assemble a multitude of great forces: and he shall come with haste like a flood: and he shall return and be stirred up, and he shall join battle with his forces.
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 →