Nahum 1:11
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New International Version (©2011)
From you, Nineveh, has one come forth who plots evil against the LORD and devises wicked plans.

New Living Translation (©2007)
Who is this wicked counselor of yours who plots evil against the LORD?

English Standard Version (©2001)
From you came one who plotted evil against the LORD, a worthless counselor.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
From you has gone forth One who plotted evil against the LORD, A wicked counselor.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
There is one come out of thee, that imagineth evil against the LORD, a wicked counseller.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
One has gone out from you, who plots evil against Yahweh, and is a wicked counselor.

International Standard Version (©2012)
Someone has left you who plans evil against the LORD. He is a demonic counselor.

NET Bible (©2006)
From you, O Nineveh, one has marched forth who plots evil against the LORD, a wicked military strategist.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
From you, Nineveh, a person who plans evil against the LORD sets out. His advice is wicked.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
There has one come out of you, that imagines evil against the LORD, a wicked counselor.

American King James Version
There is one come out of you, that imagines evil against the LORD, a wicked counselor.

American Standard Version
There is one gone forth out of thee, that deviseth evil against Jehovah, that counselleth wickedness.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Out of thee shall come forth one that imagineth evil against the Lord, contriving treachery in his mind.

Darby Bible Translation
Out of thee is gone forth one that imagineth evil against Jehovah, a wicked counsellor.

English Revised Version
There is one gone forth out of thee, that imagineth evil against the LORD, that counselleth wickedness.

Webster's Bible Translation
There is one come out of thee, that imagineth evil against the LORD, a wicked counselor.

World English Bible
There is one gone forth out of you, who devises evil against Yahweh, who counsels wickedness.

Young's Literal Translation
From thee hath come forth a deviser of evil Against Jehovah -- a worthless counsellor.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

There is one come out of thee,.... That is, out of Nineveh, as the Targum explains it; meaning Sennacherib, who had his royal seat and palace there; or Rabshakeh that was sent from hence by him with a railing and blaspheming letter to the king of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem. This is said to be at the present time of writing this prophecy, though it was after it, because of the certainty of it, as is usual in prophetic language; unless it can be thought that this prophecy was delivered out exactly at the time when Sennacherib had entered Judea, and was before the walls of Jerusalem; but not yet discomfited, as after predicted:

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Barnes' Notes on the Bible

There is one come out of thee - that is, Nineveh, "that imagineth" deviseth, , "evil, Lord, Sennacherib, against the the rod of God's anger" Isaiah 10:5-7, yet who "meant not so," as God meant. "And this was his counsel," as is every counsel of Satan, "that they could not resist him, and so should withdraw themselves from the land of God, "into a land like their own" Isaiah 36:16-17, but whose joy and sweetness, its vines and its fig-trees, should not be from God, but from the Assyrian, i. e., from Satan.

Clarke's Commentary on the Bible

Imagineth evil against the Lord - Such were Pul, 2 Kings 15:10, Tiglath-pileser, 2 Kings 15:29; Shalmaneser, 2 Kings 17:6; and Sennacherib, 2 Kings 18:17; 2 Kings 19:23.

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Geneva Study Bible

There is one {m} come out of thee, that imagineth evil against the LORD, a wicked counsellor.

(m) Which may be understood either of Sennacherib, or of the whole body of the people of Nineveh.

Wesley's Notes

1:11 Come - Sennacherib, or Rabshekah. Thee - From Nineveh. Against the Lord - Against the people of the Lord, 2Chron 32:1.

King James Translators' Notes

a wicked...: Heb. a counsellor of Belial

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

11. The cause of Nineveh's overthrow: Sennacherib's plots against Judah.

come out of thee-O Nineveh. From thyself shall arise the source of thy own ruin. Thou shalt have only thyself to blame for it.

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Nahum 1:11 Parallel Commentaries
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The Burden of Nineveh
…10For while they be entwined together as thorns, and while they are drunken as drunkards, they shall be devoured as stubble fully dry. 11There is one come out of you, that imagines evil against the LORD, a wicked counselor. 12Thus said the LORD; Though they be quiet, and likewise many, yet thus shall they be cut down, when he shall pass through. Though I have afflicted you, I will afflict you no more. …

Isaiah 10:7 But this is not what he intends, this is not what he has in mind; his purpose is to destroy, to put an end to many nations.
Ezekiel 11:2 The LORD said to me, "Son of man, these are the men who are plotting evil and giving wicked advice in this city.
Micah 2:1 Woe to those who plan iniquity, to those who plot evil on their beds! At morning's light they carry it out because it is in their power to do it.
Nahum 1:9 Whatever they plot against the LORD he will bring to an end; trouble will not come a second time.