Nahum 1:9
What do we devise against Jehovah? An end He is making, arise not twice doth distress.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
8And with a flood passing over, An end He maketh of its place, And His enemies doth darkness pursue.
Cross References
1 Samuel 26:8And Abishai saith unto David, 'God hath shut up to-day thine enemy into thy hand; and, now, let me smite him, I pray thee, with a spear, even into the earth at once — and I do repeat [it] to him.'
Psalms 2:1Why have nations tumultuously assembled? And do peoples meditate vanity?
Psalms 33:10Jehovah made void the counsel of nations, He disallowed the thoughts of the peoples.
Isaiah 8:9Be friends, O nations, and be broken, And give ear, all ye far off ones of earth, Gird yourselves, and be broken, Gird yourselves, and be broken.
Nahum 1:11From thee hath come forth a deviser of evil Against Jehovah — a worthless counsellor.
2 Corinthians 10:5reasonings bringing down, and every high thing lifted up against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to 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 →