Nahum 1:8
But with an overrunning flood he will make an utter end: darkness shall pursue those that rise up against him and his enemies.
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1 Samuel 2:9Granting his petition to him that prays; 1 And he blesses the years of the righteous, 1 For by strength cannot man prevail. 1
Proverbs 4:19But the ways of the ungodly are dark; 1 They know not how they stumble. 1
Isaiah 8:22and they shall look on the earth below, and behold severe distress, and darkness, affliction, and anguish, and darkness so that one cannot see; and he that is in anguish shall not be distressed only for a time.
Isaiah 28:18except it also take away your covenant of death, and your trust in Hades shall by no means stand: if the rushing storm should come upon you, ye shall be beaten down by it.
Ezekiel 13:13Therefore thus saith the Lord; I will even cause to burst forth a sweeping blast with fury, and there shall be a flooding rain in my wrath; and in my fury I will bring on great stones for complete destruction.
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 →