Nahum 1:4

He 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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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

3Yahweh 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

5The mountains shake in his presence, and the hills melt; 1 the earth collapses in his presence, indeed, the world and all people who live in it. 1

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Cross References

Job 38:11and when I said to it, 'You may come this far, but no farther; 1 here is where I will put a boundary to the pride of your waves.' 1

Psalms 74:15You broke open springs and streams; 1 you dried up flowing rivers. 1

Psalms 106:9He rebuked the Sea of Reeds, and it dried up. 1 Then he led them through the depths, as through a wilderness. 1

Psalms 114:5Why did you flee, sea? 1 Jordan, why did you turn back? 1

Isaiah 33:9The land mourns and withers away; Lebanon is ashamed and withers away; + 33:9 Some versions have The land dries up and withers away . 1 Sharon is like a desert plain; and Bashan and Carmel shake off their leaves. 1

Isaiah 50:2Why did I come but there was no one there? Why did I call but no one answered? 1 Was my hand too short to ransom you? Was there no power in me to rescue you? 1 Look, at my rebuke I dry up the sea; I make the rivers a desert; 1 their fish die for lack of water and rot. 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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