Nahum 1:7
Good News Translation
The LORD is good; he protects his people in times of trouble; he takes care of those who turn to him.

New Revised Standard Version
The LORD is good, a stronghold in a day of trouble; he protects those who take refuge in him,

Contemporary English Version
The LORD is good. He protects those who trust him in times of trouble.

New American Bible
The LORD is good to those who wait for him, a refuge on the day of distress, Taking care of those who look to him for protection,

Douay-Rheims Bible
The Lord is good, and giveth strength in the day of trouble: and knoweth them that hope in him.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

The Lord is good, and giveth strength in the day of trouble: and knoweth them that hope in him.

Lord.

1 Chronicles 16:34 Give ye glory to the Lord, for he is good: for his mercy endureth for ever.

Ezra 3:11 And they sung together hymns, and praise to the Lord: because he is good, for his mercy endureth for ever towards Israel. And all the people shouted with a great shout, praising the Lord, because the foundations of the temple of the Lord were laid.

Psalm 25:8 The Lord is sweet and righteous: therefore he will give a law to sinners in the way.

Psalm 100:5 For the Lord is sweet, his mercy endureth for ever, and his truth to generation and generation.

Psalm 136:1-26 Alleluia. Praise the Lord, for he is good: for his mercy endureth for ever. . . .

Psalm 145:6-10 And they shall speak of the might of thy terrible acts: and shall declare thy greatness. . . .

Jeremiah 33:11 The voice of joy and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the voice of them that shall say: Give ye glory to the Lord of hosts, for the Lord is good, for his mercy endureth for ever: and of them that shall bring their vows into the house of the Lord: for I will bring back the captivity of the land as at the first, saith the Lord.

Lamentations 3:25 Teth. The Lord is good to them that hope in him, to the soul that seeketh him.

Romans 11:22 See then the goodness and the severity of God: towards them indeed that are fallen, the severity; but towards thee, the goodness of God, if thou abide in goodness. Otherwise thou also shalt be cut off.

1 John 4:8-10 He that loveth not knoweth not God: for God is charity. . . .

strong hold.

Psalm 18:1,2 Unto the end, for David, the servant of the Lord, who spoke to the Lord the words of this canticle, in the day that the Lord delivered him from the hand of all his enemies, and from the hand of Saul: and he said: [2] I will love thee, O Lord, my strength: . . .

Psalm 27:5 For he hath hidden me in his tabernacle; in the day of evils, he hath protected me in the secret place of his tabernacle.

Psalm 62:6-8 For he is my God and my saviour: he is my helper, I shall not be moved. . . .

Psalm 71:3 Be thou unto me a God, a protector, and a place of strength: that thou mayst make me safe. For thou art my firmament and my refuge.

Psalm 84:11 For God loveth mercy and truth: the Lord will give grace and glory.

Psalm 91:1,2 The praise of a canticle for David. He that dwelleth in the aid of the most High, shall abide under the protection of the God of Jacob. . . .

Psalm 144:1,2 Blessed be the Lord my God, who teacheth my hands to fight, and my fingers to war. . . .

Proverbs 18:10 The name of the Lord is a strong tower: the just runneth to it, and shall be exalted.

Isaiah 25:4 Because thou hast been a strength to the poor, a strength to the needy in his distress: a refuge from the whirlwind, a shadow from the heat. For the blast of the mighty is like a whirlwind beating against a wall.

Isaiah 26:1-4 In that day shall this canticle be sung in the land of Juda. Sion the city of our strength a saviour, a wall and a bulwark shall be set therein. . . .

Isaiah 32:2 And a man shall be as when one is hid from the wind, and hideth himself from a storm, as rivers of waters in drought, and the shadow of a rock that standeth out in a desert land.

in the.

Psalm 20:1 Unto the end. A psalm for David. [2] May the Lord hear thee in the day of tribulation: may the name of the God of Jacob protect thee.

Psalm 50:15 And call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.

Psalm 59:16 But I will sing thy strength: and will extol thy mercy in the morning. For thou art become my support, and my refuge, in the day of my trouble.

Psalm 86:7 I have called upon thee in the day of my trouble: because thou hast heard me.

Psalm 91:15 He shall cry to me, and I will hear him: I am with him in tribulation, I will deliver him, and I will glorify him.

Isaiah 37:3,4 And they said to him: Thus saith Ezechias: This day is a day of tribulation, and of rebuke, and of blasphemy: for the children are come to the birth, and there is not strength to bring forth. . . .

and he.

Psalm 1:6 For the Lord knoweth the way of the just: and the way of the wicked shall perish.

Matthew 7:23 And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, you that work iniquity.

John 10:27 My sheep hear my voice. And I know them: and they follow me.

Galatians 4:9 But now, after that you have known God, or rather are known by God: how turn you again to the weak and needy elements which you desire to serve again?

2 Timothy 2:19 But the sure foundation of God standeth firm, having this seal: the Lord knoweth who are his; and let every one depart from iniquity who nameth the name of the Lord.

that.

1 Chronicles 5:20 Gave them help. And the Agarites were delivered into their hands, and all that were with them, because they called upon God in the battle: and he heard them, because they had put their faith in him.

2 Chronicles 16:8,9 Were not the Ethiopians, and the Libyans much more numerous in chariots, and horsemen, and an exceeding great multitude: yet because thou trustedst in the Lord, he delivered them into thy hand? . . .

2 Chronicles 32:8,11,21 For with him is an arm of flesh: with us the Lord our God, who is our helper, and fighteth for us. And the people were encouraged with these words of Ezechias king of Juda. . . .

Psalm 84:12 He will not deprive of good things them that walk in innocence: O Lord of hosts, blessed is the man that trusteth in thee.

Jeremiah 17:7,8 Blessed be the man that trusteth in the Lord, and the Lord shall be his confidence. . . .

Daniel 3:28 For thou hast executed true judgments in all the things that thou hast brought upon us, and upon Jerusalem, the holy city of our fathers: for according to truth and judgment, thou hast brought all these things upon us for our sins.

Daniel 6:23 Then was the king exceeding glad for him, and he commanded that Daniel should be taken out of the den: and Daniel was taken out of the den, and no hurt was found in him, because he believed in his God.

Matthew 27:43 He trusted in God: let him now deliver him if he will have him. For he said: I am the Son of God.

Context
The Oracle of Nineveh
6Who can stand before the face of his indignation? and who shall resist in the fierceness of his anger? his indignation is poured out like fire: and the rocks are melted by him. 7The Lord is good, and giveth strength in the day of trouble: and knoweth them that hope in him.8But with a flood that passeth by, he will make an utter end of the place thereof: and darkness shall pursue his enemies.…
Cross References
John 10:14
I am the good shepherd: and I know mine, and mine know me.

2 Timothy 2:19
But the sure foundation of God standeth firm, having this seal: the Lord knoweth who are his; and let every one depart from iniquity who nameth the name of the Lord.

Psalm 1:6
For the Lord knoweth the way of the just: and the way of the wicked shall perish.

Psalm 25:8
The Lord is sweet and righteous: therefore he will give a law to sinners in the way.

Psalm 37:39
But the salvation of the just is from the Lord, and he is their protector in the time of trouble.

Psalm 37:40
And the Lord will help them and deliver them: and he will rescue them from the wicked, and save them because they have hoped in him.

Psalm 100:5
For the Lord is sweet, his mercy endureth for ever, and his truth to generation and generation.

Psalm 145:9
The Lord is sweet to all: and his tender mercies are over all his works.

Jeremiah 16:19
O Lord, my might, and my strength, and my refuge in the day of tribulation: to thee the Gentiles shall come from the ends of the earth, and shall say: Surely our fathers have possessed lies, a vanity which hath not profited them.

Jeremiah 17:17
Be not thou a terror unto me, thou art my hope in the day of affliction.

Jeremiah 24:5
Thus saith the Lord the God of Israel: Like these good figs, so will I regard the captives of Juda, whom I have sent forth out of this place into the land of the Chaldeans, for their good.

Jeremiah 33:11
The voice of joy and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the voice of them that shall say: Give ye glory to the Lord of hosts, for the Lord is good, for his mercy endureth for ever: and of them that shall bring their vows into the house of the Lord: for I will bring back the captivity of the land as at the first, saith the Lord.

Joel 3:16
And the Lord shall roar out of Sion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem: and the heavens and the earth shall be moved, and the Lord shall be the hope of his people, and the strength of the children of Israel.

Zephaniah 3:12
And I will leave in the midst of thee a poor and needy people: and they shall hope in the name of the Lord.

Nahum 1:6
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