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 in other translations
| BSB | Whatever you plot against the LORD, He will bring to an end. Affliction will not rise up a second time. |
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| WEB | What do you plot against the LORD? He will make a full end. Affliction won’t rise up the second time. |
| ASV | What do ye devise against Jehovah? he will make a full end; affliction shall not rise up the second time. |
| YLT | What do we devise against Jehovah? An end He is making, arise not twice doth distress. |
| DARBY | What do ye imagine against Jehovah? He will make a full end: trouble shall not rise up the second time. |
| BBE | What are you designing against the Lord? he will put an end to it: his haters will not come up again a second time. |
| Webster | What 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
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
Matthew Henry, 1706 · public domain
Nahum 1:9 in the original Hebrew
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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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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.
Nahum 1:9 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | ¿Qué pensáis contra Jehová? El hará consumación: la tribulación no se levantará dos veces. |
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| 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, |