Nahum 1:3

Yahweh is slow to anger and great in power; he will not allow the wicked to go unpunished. 1 Yahweh makes his way in the whirlwind and the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet. 1

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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.

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2Yahweh is a jealous God and avenges; Yahweh avenges and is full of wrath; 1 Yahweh takes vengeance on his adversaries, and he continues his anger for his enemies. 1

4He rebukes the sea and makes it dry; he dries up all the rivers. 1 Bashan is weak, and Carmel also; the flowers of Lebanon are weak. 1

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Cross References

Exodus 19:16On the third day, when it was morning, there were thunder and lightning bolts and a thick cloud on the mountain, and the sound of a very loud trumpet. All the people in the camp trembled.

Numbers 14:18'Yahweh is slow to anger and abundant in covenant faithfulness. He forgives iniquity and transgression. He will by no means clear the guilty when he brings the punishment of the ancestors' sin on their descendants, to the third and fourth generation.'

1 Kings 19:11Yahweh replied, “Go out and stand on the mountain before me.” Then Yahweh passed by, and a very strong wind struck the mountains and broke rocks into pieces before Yahweh, but Yahweh was not in the wind. Then after the wind, an earthquake came, but Yahweh was not in the earthquake.

Job 9:4God is wise in heart and mighty in strength; 1 who has ever hardened himself against him and succeeded?— 1

Job 38:1Then Yahweh called to Job out of a fierce storm and said, 1

Psalms 50:3Our God comes and does not stay silent; 1 a fire devours before him, 1 and it is very stormy around him. 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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