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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.

Updated Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

But with an overrunning flood he will make an utter end of the place thereof, and darkness shall pursue his enemies.

In Context

7The Lord is good to them that wait on him in the day of affliction; and he knows them that reverence him.

9What do ye devise against the Lord? he will make a complete end: he will not take vengeance by affliction twice at the same time.

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Cross References

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 →

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