Nahum 1:9
What do ye imagine against the Lord? he will make an utter end: affliction shall not rise up the second time.
Context
This verse from Nahum Chapter 1 connects to 10 cross-references. A poem celebrating the Lord as a jealous and avenging God who is slow to anger but who will by no means clear the guilty. The theophanic imagery of withering sea, trembling mountains, and dissolving hills precedes the declaration that …
Other Translations
What do ye devise against Jehovah? he will make a full end; affliction shall not rise up the second time.
What do we devise against Jehovah? An end He is making, arise not twice doth distress.
What are you designing against the Lord? he will put an end to it: his haters will not come up again a second time.
Cross References
In that day I will perform against Eli all things which I have spoken concerning his house: when I begin, …
Then said Abishai to David, God hath delivered thine enemy into thine hand this day: now therefore let me smite …
But Amasa took no heed to the sword that was in Joab’s hand: so he smote him therewith in the …
Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?
He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision.
For they intended evil against thee: they imagined a mischievous device, which they are not able to perform.
The Lord bringeth the counsel of the heathen to nought: he maketh the devices of the people of none effect.
There is no wisdom nor understanding nor counsel against the Lord.
Associate yourselves, O ye people, and ye shall be broken in pieces; and give ear, all ye of far countries: …
Take counsel together, and it shall come to nought; speak the word, and it shall not stand: for God is …