Nahum 1:4

Hashem rebuketh the yam, and drieth it up, 1 and maketh all the neharot (rivers) run dry; 1 Bashan languisheth, and Carmel, 1 and the flower of the Levanon fadeth. 1

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

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

3Hashem is slow to anger, 1 and great in ko'ach, 1 and will not at all leave the guilty unpunished; 1 Hashem hath His way in the whirlwind and in the tempest, 1 and the anan (clouds) are the dust of His feet. 1

5The mountains quake before Hashem, 1 and the hills melt away, 1 and ha'aretz heaveth at His presence, 1 yea, tevel (the world), and all that dwell therein. 1

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Cross References

Job 38:11And said, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further; 1 and poh (here) shall thy proud waves be stopped? 1

Psalms 74:15Thou didst break open the fountain and the flood; 1 Thou driedst up mighty naharot (rivers). 1

Psalms 106:9He rebuked the Yam Suf also, and it dried up; 1 so He led them through the tehomot, as through the midbar. 1

Psalms 114:5What ailed thee, O thou yam, that thou didst flee? 1 Thou Yarden, that thou wast driven back? 1

Isaiah 33:9Ha'aretz mourneth and languisheth; 1 Levanon is ashamed and shriveled; 1 Sharon is like an aravah; 1 and Bashan and Carmel shake off their foliage. 1

Isaiah 50:2Why, when I came, was there no ish (man [at all] to respond)? 1 When I called, was there none to answer? 1 Is My Yad too short, that it cannot redeem? 1 Or have I no ko'ach (power) to save? 1 Behold, at My rebuke I dry up the yam (sea), 1 I make the neharot (rivers) a midbar (desert); 1 their dag (fish) stink, because there is no mayim, 1 and die of tzama (thirst). 1

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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