Nahum 1:7
The Lord is good to them that wait on him in the day of affliction; and he knows them that reverence him.
Updated Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
The LORD is good, a strong hold in the day of trouble; and he knoweth them that trust in him.
In Context
Cross References
1 Chronicles 5:20and they prevailed against them: and the Hagrites were given into their hands, they and all their tents: for they cried to God in the battle, and he hearkened to them, because they trusted on him.
2 Chronicles 13:18So the children of Israel were brought low in that day, and the children of Judah prevailed, because they trusted on the Lord God of their fathers.
2 Chronicles 32:8With him are arms of flesh; but with us is the Lord our God to save us, and to fight our battle. And the people were encouraged at the words of Hezekiah king of Judah.
2 Chronicles 32:21And the Lord sent an angel, and he destroyed every mighty man and warrior, and leader and captain in the camp of the king of Assyria: and he returned with shame of face to his own land and came into the house of his god: and some of them that came out of his bowels slew him with the sword.
Psalms 1:6For the Lord knows the way of the righteous; 1 But the way of the ungodly shall perish.
Psalms 18:1For the end, a Psalm of David. 1
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 →