Nahum 1:5
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New International Version (©2011)
The mountains quake before him and the hills melt away. The earth trembles at his presence, the world and all who live in it.

New Living Translation (©2007)
In his presence the mountains quake, and the hills melt away; the earth trembles, and its people are destroyed.

English Standard Version (©2001)
The mountains quake before him; the hills melt; the earth heaves before him, the world and all who dwell in it.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
Mountains quake because of Him And the hills dissolve; Indeed the earth is upheaved by His presence, The world and all the inhabitants in it.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
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.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
The mountains quake before Him, and the hills melt; the earth trembles at His presence-- the world and all who live in it.

International Standard Version (©2012)
Mountains shake because of him, and the hills melt. The earth goes into upheaval at his presence, as does the world with all of its inhabitants.

NET Bible (©2006)
The mountains tremble before him, the hills convulse; the earth is laid waste before him, the world and all its inhabitants are laid waste.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
The mountains quake because of him. The hills melt. The earth draws back in his presence. The world and all who live in it draw back as well.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
The mountains quake before him, and the hills melt, and the earth is burned at his presence, yea, the world, and all that dwell in it.

American King James Version
The mountains quake at him, and the hills melt, and the earth is burned at his presence, yes, the world, and all that dwell therein.

American Standard Version
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.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The mountains tremble at him, and the hills are made desolate: and the earth hath quaked at his presence, and the world, and all that dwell therein.

Darby Bible Translation
The mountains quake before him, and the hills melt, and the earth is upheaved at his presence, and the world, and all that dwell therein.

English Revised Version
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.

Webster's Bible Translation
The mountains quake at him, and the hills melt, and the earth is burned at his presence, even the world, and all that dwell therein.

World English Bible
The mountains quake before him, and the hills melt away. The earth trembles at his presence, yes, the world, and all who dwell in it.

Young's Literal Translation
Mountains have shaken because of Him, And the hills have been melted; And lifted up is the earth at His presence, And the world and all dwelling in it.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

1:1-8 About a hundred years before, at Jonah's preaching, the Ninevites repented, and were spared, yet, soon after, they became worse than ever. Nineveh knows not that God who contends with her, but is told what a God he is. It is good for all to mix faith with what is here said concerning Him, which speaks great terror to the wicked, and comfort to believers. Let each take his portion from it: let sinners read it and tremble; and let saints read it and triumph. The anger of the Lord is contrasted with his goodness to his people. Perhaps they are obscure and little regarded in the world, but the Lord knows them. The Scripture character of Jehovah agrees not with the views of proud reasoners. The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ is slow to wrath and ready to forgive, but he will by no means acquit the wicked; and there is tribulation and anguish for every soul that doeth evil: but who duly regards the power of his wrath?

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 5. - The mountains quake. The mountains, the very emblems of stability, tremble before him (Adios 8:8). The hills melt; Οἱ βουνοὶ ἐσαλεύθησαν, "The hills were shaken" (Septuagint). The hills dissolve like wax or anew at his presence (see Amos 4:13; Micah 1:4). Burned; Septuagint, ἀνεστάλη, "recoils," "is upheaved," as by an earthquake. This rendering has the greatest authority. The world; i.e. the habitable world, and all living creatures therein (Joel 1:18-20). Nature animate and inanimate is represented as actuated by the terror of conscious guilt.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

The mountains quake at him, and the hills melt,.... As Sinai of old did, when the Lord descended on it, Exodus 19:18. Mountains figuratively signify kings and princes; and hills large countries, as Jarchi and Abarbinel observe, and the inhabitants of them; particularly the kingdoms and nations belonging to the Assyrian empire, which would tremble and quake, and their hearts melt with fear, when they should hear of the destruction of Nineveh their chief city; and of the devastation made by the enemy there and in other parts, under the direction of the Lord of hosts; his power and providence succeeding him:

and the earth is burnt at his presence; either when he withholds rain from it, and so it be comes parched and burnt up with the heat of the sun; or when he rains fire and brimstone on it, as he did on Sodom and Gomorrah; or consumes any part of it with thunder and lightning, as he sometimes does; nay, if he but touch the mountains, they smoke; see Psalm 104:32;

yea, the world, and all that dwell therein; as in the last day, at the general conflagration, when the world, and all the wicked inhabitants of it, will be burnt up; see 2 Peter 3:10.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

5. earth is burned—so Grotius. Rather, "lifts itself," that is, "heaveth" [Maurer]: as the Hebrew is translated in Ps 89:9; Ho 13:1; compare 2Sa 5:21, Margin.

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The Burden of Nineveh
…4He rebukes the sea, and makes it dry, and dries up all the rivers: Bashan languishes, and Carmel, and the flower of Lebanon languishes. 5The mountains quake at him, and the hills melt, and the earth is burned at his presence, yes, the world, and all that dwell therein. 6Who can stand before his indignation? and who can abide in the fierceness of his anger? his fury is poured out like fire, and the rocks are thrown down by him. …

Revelation 6:14 The heavens receded like a scroll being rolled up, and every mountain and island was removed from its place.
Exodus 19:18 Mount Sinai was covered with smoke, because the LORD descended on it in fire. The smoke billowed up from it like smoke from a furnace, and the whole mountain trembled violently.
2 Samuel 22:8 The earth trembled and quaked, the foundations of the heavens shook; they trembled because he was angry.
Psalm 18:7 The earth trembled and quaked, and the foundations of the mountains shook; they trembled because he was angry.
Psalm 46:6 Nations are in uproar, kingdoms fall; he lifts his voice, the earth melts.
Psalm 97:5 The mountains melt like wax before the LORD, before the Lord of all the earth.
Psalm 98:7 Let the sea resound, and everything in it, the world, and all who live in it.
Isaiah 5:25 Therefore the LORD's anger burns against his people; his hand is raised and he strikes them down. The mountains shake, and the dead bodies are like refuse in the streets. Yet for all this, his anger is not turned away, his hand is still upraised.
Isaiah 24:1 See, the LORD is going to lay waste the earth and devastate it; he will ruin its face and scatter its inhabitants--
Isaiah 24:20 The earth reels like a drunkard, it sways like a hut in the wind; so heavy upon it is the guilt of its rebellion that it falls--never to rise again.
Isaiah 64:1 Oh, that you would rend the heavens and come down, that the mountains would tremble before you!
Joel 2:10 Before them the earth shakes, the heavens tremble, the sun and moon are darkened, and the stars no longer shine.