Nahum 1:9

What can ye devise against Yahweh? A full end, is he making,—Distress, shall not rise up twice:

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

In The King James Version

What do ye imagine against the LORD? he will make an utter end: affliction shall not rise up the second time.

In Context

8But, with an overflow rolling on, a full end, will he make of them who rise up against him,—and, his foes, will he pursue into darkness.

10Though they were like thorns intertwined, and as drunkards drenched with their drink, yet have they been devoured, like stubble fully dry.

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Cross References

1 Samuel 26:8Then said Abishai unto David, God hath surrendered, to-day, thine enemy, into thy hand: Now, therefore, let me smite him, I pray thee, with the spear to the earth, at one stroke, I, will not do it twice.

Psalms 2:1Wherefore have nations assembled in tumult? Or should, peoples, mutter an empty thing?

Psalms 33:10Yahweh, hath frustrated the counsel of nations, hath brought to nothing the devices of peoples.

Isaiah 8:9Rage, O ye peoples,—and be overthrown, And give ear, all ye distant parts of the earth,—Gird yourselves and be overthrown, Gird yourselves, and be overthrown:

Nahum 1:11Out of thee, hath one come forth—plotting, against Yahweh, wickedness,—A counselor of the Abandoned One.

2 Corinthians 10:5When we pull down, calculations, and every height that uplifteth itself against the knowledge of God, and when we bring into captivity every thought unto the obedience of the Christ,

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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