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Nahum 1:9 KJV
Nahum · chapter 1 · verse 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 context
7The LORD is good, a strong hold in the day of trouble; and he knoweth them that trust in him.
8But with an overrunning flood he will make an utter end of the place thereof, and darkness shall pursue his enemies.
9What do ye imagine against the LORD? he will make an utter end: affliction shall not rise up the second time.
10For while they be folden together as thorns, and while they are drunken as drunkards, they shall be devoured as stubble fully dry.
11There is one come out of thee, that imagineth evil against the LORD, a wicked counsellor.
Commentary
Cross references
- Proverbs 21:30
- Psalms 21:11
- Psalms 33:10
- 2 Corinthians 10:5
- Psalms 2:1-4
- Nahum 1:11
- Isaiah 8:9-10
- Ezekiel 38:10-11
Key words (Strong's)
- afflictiontsârâhtightnessH6869 →
- imaginechâshabproperly, to plait or interpenetrateH2803 →
- LORDYᵉhôvâhJehovah, Jewish national name of GodH3068 →
- makeʻâsâhto do or make, in the broadest sense and widest applicationH6213 →
- endkâlâha completionH3617 →
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These verses seem to point at the destruction of the army of the Assyrians under Sennacherib, which may well be reckoned a part of the burden of Nineveh, the head city of the Assyrian empire, and a pledge of the destruction of Nineveh itself about 100 years after;
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 9-15