Nahum 1:9

What do ye devise against the LORD? He will make a full end; trouble shall not rise up the second time.

JPS TaNaKH 1917

In The King James Version

What do ye imagine against the LORD? he will make an utter end: affliction shall not rise up the second time.

In Context

8But with an overrunning flood He will make a full end of the place thereof, and darkness shall pursue His enemies.

10For though they be like tangled thorns, and be drunken according to their drink, they shall be devoured as stubble fully dry.

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Cross References

1 Samuel 26:8Then said Abishai to David: 'God hath delivered up thine enemy into thy hand this day; now therefore let me smite him, I pray thee, with the spear to the earth at one stroke, and I will not smite him the second time.'

Psalms 2:1Why are the nations in an uproar? And why do the peoples mutter in vain?

Psalms 33:10The LORD bringeth the counsel of the nations to nought; He maketh the thoughts of the peoples to be of no effect.

Isaiah 8:9Make an uproar, O ye peoples, and ye shall be broken in pieces; and give ear, all ye of far countries; gird yourselves, and ye shall be broken in pieces; gird yourselves, and ye shall be broken in pieces.

Nahum 1:11Out of thee came he forth, that deviseth evil against the LORD, that counselleth wickedness.

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 →

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