Nahum 1
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Nahum 1
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Isa 13.1; Nah 2.8; 3.7; Hab 1.1; Zeph 2.13 An oracle concerning Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum of Elkosh.
The Consuming Wrath of God
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Ex 20.5; Deut 4.24; 32.35, 41; Ps 94.1 A jealous and avenging God is the Lord;
the Lord is avenging and wrathful;
the Lord takes vengeance on his adversaries
and prolongs it against his enemies.
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Ex 34.6, 7; Ps 103.8; 104.3; Isa 29.6 The Lord is slow to anger but great in power,
and the Lord will by no means clear the guilty.
His way is in whirlwind and storm,
and the clouds are the dust of his feet.
4He rebukes the sea and makes it dry,
and he dries up all the rivers;
Bashan and Carmel wither,
and the bloom of Lebanon fades.
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Ex 19.18; Isa 24.1, 20; Mic 1.4 The mountains quake before him,
and the hills melt;
the earth heaves before him,
the world and all who live in it.
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1 Kings 19.11; Isa 66.15; Jer 10.10; Mal 3.2 Who can stand before his indignation?
Who can endure the heat of his anger?
His wrath is poured out like fire,
and by him the rocks are broken in pieces.
7The Lord is good,
a stronghold in a day of trouble;
he protects those who take refuge in him,
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Isa 13.9, 10; 28.2, 18 even in a rushing flood.
He will make a full end of his adversaries#1.8 Gk: Heb of her place
and will pursue his enemies into darkness.
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Ps 2.1; Isa 28.22 Why do you plot against the Lord?
He will make an end;
no adversary will rise up twice.
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2 Sam 23.6; Mal 4.1 Like thorns they are entangled;
like drunkards they are drunk;
they are consumed like dry straw.
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v 9
; Ezek 11.2From you one has gone out
who plots evil against the Lord,
one who counsels wickedness.
Good News for Judah
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Isa 10.16–19, 33, 34; 54.7, 8 Thus says the Lord:
Though they are at full strength and many,#1.12 Meaning of Heb uncertain
they will be cut off and pass away.
Though I have afflicted you,
I will afflict you no more.
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Isa 9.4; Jer 2.20 And now I will break off his yoke from you
and snap the bonds that bind you.
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Isa 46.1, 2; Ezek 32.22, 23; Mic 5.13, 14 The Lord has commanded concerning you:
Your name shall be perpetuated no longer;
from the house of your gods I will cut off
the carved image and the cast image.
I will prepare your grave, for you are worthless.
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Lev 23.2, 4; Isa 29.7, 8; 40.9; 52.1, 7; Joel 3.17; Rom 10.15 # 1.15 2.1 in Heb Look! On the mountains the feet of one
who brings good tidings,
who proclaims peace!
Celebrate your festivals, O Judah;
fulfill your vows,
for never again shall the wicked invade you;
they are utterly cut off.
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