Nahum 1:9

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

Updated Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

What do ye imagine against the LORD? he will make an utter end: affliction shall not rise up the second time.

In Context

8But with an overrunning flood he will make an utter end: darkness shall pursue those that rise up against him and his enemies.

10For the enemy shall be laid bare even to the foundation, and shall be devoured as twisted yew, and as stubble fully dry.

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Cross References

1 Samuel 26:8And Abishai said to David, The Lord has this day shut up thine enemy into thy hands, and now I will smite him to the earth with the spear to the ground once for all, and I will not smite him again.

Psalms 2:1Wherefore did the heathen rage, 1 And the nations imagine vain things? 1

Psalms 33:10Fear the Lord, all ye his saints: 1 For there is no want to them that fear him. 1

Isaiah 8:9Know, ye Gentiles, and be conquered; hearken ye, even to the extremity of the earth: be conquered, after ye have strengthened yourselves; for even if ye should again strengthen yourselves, ye shall again be conquered.

Nahum 1:11Out of thee shall proceed a device against the Lord, counseling evil things hostile to him.

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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