Nahum 1:6
Before his indignation who can stand? and who can subsist before the fierceness of his anger? his fury is poured out like fire, and the rocks are broken down by him.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
In Context
7The Lord is good, a strong-hold on the day of distress; and he knoweth those that trust in him.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 32:22For a fire is kindled in my anger, and it burneth unto the lowest deep; and it consumeth the earth with her products, and it setteth on fire the foundations of the mountains.
Job 9:5[He it is] who removeth mountains, and they know it not, yea, when he overturneth them in his anger;
Psalms 2:12Do homage to the son, lest he be angry, and ye be lost on the way; for his wrath is so speedily kindled. Happy are all they that put their trust in him.
Psalms 76:8(76:9) From heaven hast thou caused [thy] sentence to be heard: the earth feared, and became still,
Isaiah 10:16Therefore will the Lord, the Eternal of hosts, send forth among his fat ones leanness; and under his glory shall be kindled a burning like the burning of a fire.
Isaiah 27:4Wrath have I not: who would set the briers and thorns against me in battle? I would pass through them, and I would burn them altogether.
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 →