Nahum 1:9
What do we devise against YHWH? He is making an end, distress does not arise twice.
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In Context
8And with a flood passing over, || An end He makes of its place, || And darkness pursues His enemies.
Cross References
1 Samuel 26:8And Abishai says to David, “God has shut up your enemy into your hand today; and now, please let me strike him with [the] spear, even into the earth, at once—and not repeat [it] to him.”
Psalms 2:1Why have nations assembled tumultuously? And peoples meditate vanity?
Psalms 33:10YHWH made void the counsel of nations, || He disallowed the thoughts of the peoples.
Isaiah 8:9Be friends, O nations, and be broken, || And give ear, all you far-off ones of earth, || Gird yourselves, and be broken, || Gird yourselves, and be broken.
Nahum 1:11From you has come forth a deviser of evil || Against YHWH—a worthless counselor.
2 Corinthians 10:5bringing down reasonings, and every high thing lifted up against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of the Christ,
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 →