Nahum 1:6

Who can stand before Hashemʼs fury? 1 And who can endure His charon af (burning anger)? + 1:6 See Ro 1:18 1 His chemah (wrath) is poured out like eish (fire) 1 and the tzurim (rocks) are rent in pieces before Him. 1

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

Who can stand before his indignation? and who can abide in the fierceness of his anger? his fury is poured out like fire, and the rocks are thrown down by him.

In Context

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

7Hashem is tov, 1 a maoz (stronghold) in the Yom Tzarah; 1 and Hashem knoweth them that take refuge in Him. 1

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 32:22For an eish is kindled in Mine anger, 1 and shall burn unto the lowest Sheol, 1 and shall devour Eretz and her increase, 1 and set on fire the foundations of harim. 1

Job 9:5Which removeth the harim (mountains), and they know not; 1 which overturneth them in His anger; 1

Psalms 2:12Kiss the Bar (Ben, Son), + 2:12 See Hebrew Prov 31:2 ; Ben HaElohim Moshiach; see 2:2,7 , above lest he be angry, 1 and ye perish from the Derech, 1 for his wrath can flare up in a moment. 1 Ashrei are all they that take refuge in him. + 2:12 Moshiach

Psalms 76:8Thou, even Thou, art to be feared; 1 and who may stand in Thy sight 1 when once Thou art angry? 1

Isaiah 10:16Therefore shall HaAdon Hashem Tzva'os 1 send among his fat ones leanness; 1 and instead of his kavod there will be kindled a burning 1 like the blazing of eish. 1

Isaiah 27:4Chemah (wrath, fury) is not in Me; 1 but if there were briers and thorns set against Me in milchamah, 1 I would march through it, 1 I would burn it together. 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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