Nahum 1:9

What will you devise against the Lord? he is bringing about an utter destruction, the distress shall not rise up twice.

Leeser Tanakh

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 overflowing flood will he utterly destroy the place of [Nineveh], and his enemies will he pursue with darkness.

10For they, like thorns interwoven, and as men made drunken in their drinking bout, shall be entirely consumed as dry stubble.

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Cross References

1 Samuel 26:8Then said Abishai to David, God hath surrendered this day thy enemy into thy hand: and now let me strike him through, I pray thee, with the spear, even to the earth with one blow, and I will not give him a second one.

Psalms 2:1Wherefore do nations rage, and people meditate a vain thing?

Psalms 33:10The Lord frustrateth the resolves of the nations: he bringeth to nought the thoughts of the people.

Isaiah 8:9Associate yourselves, O ye people, yet shall ye be broken in pieces; and give ear, all ye of the far portions of the earth: gird yourselves, yet shall ye be broken in pieces; gird yourselves, yet shall ye be broken in pieces.

Nahum 1:11There is gone forth out of thee he that devised evil against the Lord, the counsellor of infamous things.

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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