Nahum 1:5
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.
הערת לימוד
Study Note
The theophany hymn that opens Nahum (1:2–8) employs cosmic disruption imagery — quaking mountains, melting hills, burning earth — to depict the divine warrior's advance against Nineveh, drawing on the Sinai theophany tradition and Near Eastern storm-deity conventions. The verse belongs to an acrostic structure (partially preserved in 1:2–8) that displays literary craft alongside its theological content, suggesting the book is a carefully composed liturgical text rather than merely an impulsive denunciation. Nahum's oracle against Assyria complements Jonah's narrative of Nineveh's repentance: together the two books bracket Assyrian history with divine patience followed by irrevocable judgment. The cosmic theophany imagery reappears in Habakkuk 3, suggesting a shared liturgical tradition among the minor prophets of divine warrior theology.
תרגומים נוספים
The mountains quake at him, and the hills melt; and the earth is upheaved at his presence, yea, the world, and all that dwell therein.
Mountains have shaken because of Him, And the hills have been melted; And lifted up <FI>is<Fi> the earth at His presence, And the world and all dwelling in it.
The mountains are shaking because of him, and the hills flowing away; the earth is falling to bits before him, the world and all who are in it.
הפניות צולבות
And mount Sinai was altogether on a smoke, because the Lord descended upon it in fire: and the smoke thereof …
The mountains melted from before the Lord, even that Sinai from before the Lord God of Israel.
As when the melting fire burneth, the fire causeth the waters to boil, to make thy name known to thine …
Oh that thou wouldest rend the heavens, that thou wouldest come down, that the mountains might flow down at thy …
And upon all the high mountains, and upon all the hills that are lifted up,
For the day of the Lord of hosts shall be upon every one that is proud and lofty, and upon …
I beheld the mountains, and, lo, they trembled, and all the hills moved lightly.
And the mountains shall be molten under him, and the valleys shall be cleft, as wax before the fire, and …
The mountains saw thee, and they trembled: the overflowing of the water passed by: the deep uttered his voice, and …
Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be …