Nahum 1 · Verse 9

Nahum 1:9

What do ye imagine against the Lord? he will make an utter end: affliction shall not rise up the second time.
Nahum 1:9, King James Version

Nahum 1:9 in other translations

BSBWhatever you plot against the LORD, He will bring to an end. Affliction will not rise up a second time.
WEBWhat do you plot against the LORD? He will make a full end. Affliction won’t rise up the second time.
ASVWhat do ye devise against Jehovah? he will make a full end; affliction shall not rise up the second time.
YLTWhat do we devise against Jehovah? An end He is making, arise not twice doth distress.
DARBYWhat do ye imagine against Jehovah? He will make a full end: trouble shall not rise up the second time.
BBEWhat are you designing against the Lord? he will put an end to it: his haters will not come up again a second time.
WebsterWhat do ye imagine against the LORD? he will make an utter end: affliction shall not rise up the second time.

What does Nahum 1:9 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
9. What do ye imagine against the Lord?--abrupt address to the Assyrians. How mad is your attempt, O Assyrians, to resist so powerful a God! What can ye do against such an adversary, successful though ye have been against all other adversaries? Ye imagine ye have to do merely with mortals and with a weak people, and that so you will gain an easy victory; but you have to encounter God, the protector of His people. Parallel to Is 37:23-29; compare Psa 1:1. he will make an utter end--The utter overthrow of Sennacherib's host, soon about to take place, is an earnest of the "utter end" of Nineveh itself. affliction shall not rise up the second time--Judah's "affliction" caused by the invasion shall never rise again. So Na 1:12. But Calvin takes the "affliction" to be that of Assyria: "There will be no need of His inflicting on you a second blow: He will make an utter end of you once for all" (1Sa 3:12; 26:8; 2Sa 20:10). If so, this verse, in contrast to Na 1:12, will express, Affliction shall visit the Assyrian no more, in a sense very different from that in which God will afflict Judah no more. In the Assyrian's case, because the blow will be fatally final; the latter, because God will make lasting blessedness in Judah's case succeed temporary chastisement. But it seems simpler to refer "affliction" here, as in Na 1:12, to Judah; indeed destruction, rather than affliction, applies to the Assyrian.

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 9 Affliction shall not rise up the second time - There shall be no need to repeat the judgment; with one blow God will make a full end of the business.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

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 deliverance for his own people. But those who make themselves vile by scandalous sins, God will make vile by shameful punishments. The tidings of this great deliverance shall be welcomed with abundant joy. These words are applied to the great redemption wrought out by our Lord Jesus and the everlasting gospel, Ro 10:15. Christ's ministers are messengers of good tidings, that preach peace by Jesus Christ. How welcome to those who see their misery and danger by sin! And the promise they made in the day of trouble must be made good. Let us be thankful for God's ordinances, and gladly attend them. Let us look forward with cheerful hope to a world where the wicked never can enter, and sin and temptation will no more be known.

Matthew Henry, 1706 · public domain

Nahum 1:9 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

מַה\־mah-whateverH4100
תְּחַשְּׁבוּן֙te.cha.she.Vunyou will plot !H2803
אֶל\־'el-againstH413
יְהוָ֔הYah.wehYahwehH3068
כָּלָ֖הka.Lahcomplete destructionH3617
ה֣וּאhu'heH1931
עֹשֶׂ֑ה'o.Seh[will be] makingH6213
לֹֽא\־lo'-notH3808
תָק֥וּםta.Kumit will ariseH6965
פַּעֲמַ֖יִםpa.'a.Ma.yimtwo timesH6471
צָרָֽה\׃tza.RahtroubleH6869

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Cross references for Nahum 1:9

  • Psalms 21:11

    For they intended evil against thee: they imagined a mischievous device, which they are not able to perform.

  • Proverbs 21:30

    There is no wisdom nor understanding nor counsel against the Lord.

  • Psalms 33:10

    The Lord bringeth the counsel of the heathen to nought: he maketh the devices of the people of none effect.

  • 2 Corinthians 10:5

    Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;

  • Psalms 2:1-4

    Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing? The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the Lord, and against his anointed, saying, Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us. He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision.

  • Nahum 1:11

    There is one come out of thee, that imagineth evil against the Lord, a wicked counsellor.

  • Ezekiel 38:10-11

    Thus saith the Lord God; It shall also come to pass, that at the same time shall things come into thy mind, and thou shalt think an evil thought: And thou shalt say, I will go up to the land of unwalled villages; I will go to them that are at rest, that dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates,

  • Isaiah 8:9-10

    Associate yourselves, O ye people, and ye shall be broken in pieces; and give ear, all ye of far countries: gird yourselves, and ye shall be broken in pieces; gird yourselves, and ye shall be broken in pieces. Take counsel together, and it shall come to nought; speak the word, and it shall not stand: for God is with us.

  • Acts 4:25-28

    Who by the mouth of thy servant David hast said, Why did the heathen rage, and the people imagine vain things? The kings of the earth stood up, and the rulers were gathered together against the Lord, and against his Christ. For of a truth against thy holy child Jesus, whom thou hast anointed, both Herod, and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles, and the people of Israel, were gathered together, For to do whatsoever thy hand and thy counsel determined before to be done.

  • 1 Samuel 26:8

    Then said Abishai to David, God hath delivered thine enemy into thine hand this day: now therefore let me smite him, I pray thee, with the spear even to the earth at once, and I will not smite him the second time.

  • 1 Samuel 3:12

    In that day I will perform against Eli all things which I have spoken concerning his house: when I begin, I will also make an end.

  • 2 Samuel 20:10

    But Amasa took no heed to the sword that was in Joab’s hand: so he smote him therewith in the fifth rib, and shed out his bowels to the ground, and struck him not again; and he died. So Joab and Abishai his brother pursued after Sheba the son of Bichri.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
do.
11; Ps 2:1-4; 21:11; 33:10; Pr 21:30; Isa 8:9,10; Eze 38:10,11
Ac 4:25-28; 2Co 10:5
he.
1Sa 3:12; 26:8; 2Sa 20:10

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Context

  • Nahum 1:8

    But with an overrunning flood he will make an utter end of the place thereof, and darkness shall pursue his enemies.

  • Nahum 1:9

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

  • 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.

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Nahum 1:9 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
¿Qué pensáis contra Jehová? El hará consumación: la tribulación no se levantará dos veces.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
Qu’imaginez-vous contre l’ Éternel? Il détruira entièrement; la détresse ne se lèvera pas deux fois.
German
Elberfelder 1871
Was sinnet ihr wider Jehova? Er wird gänzlich zerstören; die Drangsal wird nicht zweimal erstehen.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
Quid cogitatis contra Dominum? Consummationem ipse faciet: non consurget duplex tribulatio,