Nahum 1:5

When he appears, it is as though the mountains shake and the hills melt; the earth quakes and the people on the earth tremble.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

The mountains quake at him, and the hills melt, and the earth is burned at his presence, yea, the world, and all that dwell therein.

In Context

4When he commands oceans and rivers to become dry, they dry up. He causes the grass in the fields in the Bashan region and on the slopes of Carmel Mountain to wither, and causes the flowers in Lebanon to fade.

6There is no one [RHQ] who can resist him when he becomes extremely angry; there is no one [RHQ] who can survive when his anger is very hot. When he is very angry, it is as though his anger is like [SIM] a blazing fire, and it is as though mountains are shattered into pieces.

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Cross References

Exodus 19:18All of Sinai Mountain was covered in smoke, because Yahweh had descended on it, surrounded by a fire. The smoke rose up like the smoke from the chimney of a furnace, and the whole mountain shook violently.

2 Samuel 22:8“Then it was as though the earth quaked and shook; it was as though the foundations that ◄ held up/supported► the sky trembled, because you were angry.

Job 26:11When he is angry, it is as though he rebukes the pillars that hold up the sky. They are ◄shocked/very fearful►, and they tremble.

Psalms 29:5The sound of Yahweh’s voice breaks great cedar trees, the cedars that grow in Lebanon.

Psalms 68:8After you did that, because when you, the God worshiped by us Israeli people, appeared to us at Sinai Mountain,, the earth shook, and rain poured down from the sky.

Psalms 98:7The oceans and all the creatures that are in the oceans should roar to praise Yahweh. Everyone on the earth should sing!

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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