Nahum 1:4

He rebukes the sea and dries it up and makes all the streams run dry. Bashan and Carmel are languishing and the bloom of Lebanon is withered.

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He rebuketh the sea, and maketh it dry, and drieth up all the rivers: Bashan languisheth, and Carmel, and the flower of Lebanon languisheth.

In Context

3The Lord is slow to anger, great in power. The guilty will not escape his punishment. Storm tempest is his path and cloud is the dust of his feet.

5The mountains tremble before him and the hills dissolve. The earth heaves before him, the world and all who live in it.

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Cross References

Psalms 74:15It was you who did cleave the fountains and torrents; it was you who did dry the perennial streams.

Psalms 106:9He rebuked the Red Sea, and it dried; they marched through the depths as through desert,

Psalms 114:5Why, sea, do you flee? Jordan, why run backwards?

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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