Nahum 1:8
And with a flood passing over, || An end He makes of its place, || And darkness pursues His enemies.
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In Context
7Good [is] YHWH for a strong place in a day of distress. And He knows those trusting in Him.
9What do we devise against YHWH? He is making an end, distress does not arise twice.
Cross References
1 Samuel 2:9He keeps the feet of His saints, || And the wicked are silent in darkness, || For man does not become mighty by power.
Proverbs 4:19The way of the wicked [is] as darkness, || They have not known at what they stumble.
Isaiah 8:22And it looks attentively to the land, || And behold, adversity and darkness! Dimness, distress, and thick darkness are driven away, || But not the dimness for which she is in distress!
Isaiah 28:18And your covenant with death has been annulled, || And your provision with Sheol does not stand, || An overflowing scourge, when it passes over, || Then you have been to it for a treading-place.
Ezekiel 13:13Therefore, thus said Lord YHWH: I have broken with a turbulent wind in My fury, || And an overflowing shower is in My anger, || And hailstones in My fury—to consume.
Daniel 11:10and his sons stir themselves up, and have gathered a multitude of great forces, and he has certainly come in, and overflowed, and passed through, and he turns back, and they stir themselves up to his stronghold.
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 →