Nahum 1:11
There is one come out of thee, that imagineth evil against the Lord, a wicked counsellor.
Nahum 1:11 in other translations
| BSB | From you, O Nineveh, comes forth a plotter of evil against the LORD, a counselor of wickedness. |
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| WEB | One has gone out of you who devises evil against the LORD, who counsels wickedness. |
| ASV | There is one gone forth out of thee, that deviseth evil against Jehovah, that counselleth wickedness. |
| YLT | From thee hath come forth a deviser of evil Against Jehovah--a worthless counsellor. |
| DARBY | Out of thee is gone forth one that imagineth evil against Jehovah, a wicked counsellor. |
| BBE | One has gone out from you who is designing evil against the Lord, whose purposes are of no value. |
| Webster | There is one come out of thee, that imagineth evil against the LORD, a wicked counselor. |
What does Nahum 1:11 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain
Adam Clarke's Commentary
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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Nahum 1:9-15
There is a great deal plotted against the Lord by the gates of hell, and against his kingdom in the world; but it will prove in vain. With some sinners God makes quick despatch; and one way or other, he will make an utter end of all his enemies. Though they are quiet, and many very secure, and not in fear, they shall be cut down as grass and corn, when the destroying angel passes through. God would hereby work great…
Nahum 1:11 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Nahum 1:11
- Nahum 1:9
What do ye imagine against the Lord? he will make an utter end: affliction shall not rise up the second time.
- 2 Chronicles 13:7
And there are gathered unto him vain men, the children of Belial, and have strengthened themselves against Rehoboam the son of Solomon, when Rehoboam was young and tenderhearted, and could not withstand them.
- 1 Samuel 2:12
Now the sons of Eli were sons of Belial; they knew not the Lord.
- 2 Kings 18:30
Neither let Hezekiah make you trust in the Lord, saying, The Lord will surely deliver us, and this city shall not be delivered into the hand of the king of Assyria.
- 2 Chronicles 32:15-19
Now therefore let not Hezekiah deceive you, nor persuade you on this manner, neither yet believe him: for no god of any nation or kingdom was able to deliver his people out of mine hand, and out of the hand of my fathers: how much less shall your God deliver you out of mine hand? And his servants spake yet more against the Lord God, and against his servant Hezekiah. He wrote also letters to rail on the Lord God of Israel, and to speak against him, saying, As the gods of the nations of other lands have not delivered their people out of mine hand, so shall not the God of Hezekiah deliver his people out of mine hand. Then they cried with a loud voice in the Jews’ speech unto the people of Jerusalem that were on the wall, to affright them, and to trouble them; that they might take the city. …
- Isaiah 10:7-15
Howbeit he meaneth not so, neither doth his heart think so; but it is in his heart to destroy and cut off nations not a few. For he saith, Are not my princes altogether kings? Is not Calno as Carchemish? is not Hamath as Arpad? is not Samaria as Damascus? As my hand hath found the kingdoms of the idols, and whose graven images did excel them of Jerusalem and of Samaria; …
- 2 Kings 19:22-25
Whom hast thou reproached and blasphemed? and against whom hast thou exalted thy voice, and lifted up thine eyes on high? even against the Holy One of Israel. By thy messengers thou hast reproached the Lord, and hast said, With the multitude of my chariots I am come up to the height of the mountains, to the sides of Lebanon, and will cut down the tall cedar trees thereof, and the choice fir trees thereof: and I will enter into the lodgings of his borders, and into the forest of his Carmel. I have digged and drunk strange waters, and with the sole of my feet have I dried up all the rivers of besieged places. Hast thou not heard long ago how I have done it, and of ancient times that I have formed it? now have I brought it to pass, that thou shouldest be to lay waste fenced cities into ruinous heaps.
- 2 Kings 18:13-14
Now in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah did Sennacherib king of Assyria come up against all the fenced cities of Judah, and took them. And Hezekiah king of Judah sent to the king of Assyria to Lachish, saying, I have offended; return from me: that which thou puttest on me will I bear. And the king of Assyria appointed unto Hezekiah king of Judah three hundred talents of silver and thirty talents of gold.
- 2 Samuel 20:1
And there happened to be there a man of Belial, whose name was Sheba, the son of Bichri, a Benjamite: and he blew a trumpet, and said, We have no part in David, neither have we inheritance in the son of Jesse: every man to his tents, O Israel.
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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
9; 2Ki 18:13,14,30; 19:22-25; 2Ch 32:15-19; Isa 10:7-15
wicked counsellor. Heb. counsellor of Belial.
1Sa 2:12; 2Sa 20:1; 2Ch 13:7
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Context
- Nahum 1:10
For while they be folden together as thorns, and while they are drunken as drunkards, they shall be devoured as stubble fully dry.
- Nahum 1:11
There is one come out of thee, that imagineth evil against the Lord, a wicked counsellor.
- Nahum 1:12
Thus saith the Lord; Though they be quiet, and likewise many, yet thus shall they be cut down, when he shall pass through. Though I have afflicted thee, I will afflict thee no more.
Nahum 1:11 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | De ti salió el que pensó mal contra Jehová, un consultor impío. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | De toi est sorti celui qui imagine du mal contre l’ Éternel, un conseiller de Bélial. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Von dir ist ausgegangen, der Böses sann wider Jehova, ein nichtswürdiger Ratgeber. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Ex te exibit cogitans contra Dominum malitiam, mente pertractans prævaricationem. |