Nahum 1:9

Why do you plot against the Lord? He will end you. He only takes vengeance once.

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

In Context

8With rushing flood an end he makes of those who rise against him, he drives his enemies into darkness.

10Thorns, tangled and drenched, they are consumed like dry stubble.

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Cross References

Psalms 2:1Why this turmoil of nations, this futile plotting of peoples,

Psalms 33:10The Lord frustrates the designs of the nations, what the peoples have purposed, he brings to nought,

Nahum 1:11Nineveh! From you has arisen one who plots evil against the Lord, a counsellor of wickedness.

2 Corinthians 10:5We are engaged in confuting arguments and pulling down every barrier raised against the knowledge of God. We are taking captive every hostile thought, to bring it into submission to the Christ,

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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