Nahum 1:5

Mountains have shaken because of Him, And the hills have been melted; And lifted up [is] the earth at His presence, And the world and all dwelling in it.

Young's Literal Translation

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

4He is pushing against a sea, and drieth it up, Yea, all the floods He hath made dry, Languishing [are] Bashan and Carmel, Yea, the flower of Lebanon [is] languishing.

6Before His indignation who doth stand? And who riseth up in the heat of His anger? His fury hath been poured out like fire, And the rocks have been broken by Him.

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Cross References

Exodus 19:18and mount Sinai [is] wholly a smoke from the presence of Jehovah, who hath come down on it in fire, and its smoke goeth up as smoke of the furnace, and the whole mount trembleth exceedingly;

2 Samuel 22:8And shake and tremble doth the earth, Foundations of the heavens are troubled, And are shaken, for He hath wrath!

Job 26:11Pillars of the heavens do tremble, And they wonder because of His rebuke.

Psalms 29:5The voice of Jehovah [is] shivering cedars, Yea, Jehovah shivers the cedars of Lebanon.

Psalms 68:8The earth hath shaken, Yea, the heavens have dropped before God, This Sinai — before God, the God of Israel.

Psalms 98:7Roar doth the sea and its fulness, The world and the inhabitants in it.

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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