Nahum 1:9
Good News Translation
What are you plotting against the LORD? He will destroy you. No one opposes him more than once.

New Revised Standard Version
Why do you plot against the LORD? He will make an end; no adversary will rise up twice.

Contemporary English Version
So don't plot against the LORD! He wipes out his enemies, and they never revive.

New American Bible
What do you plot against the LORD, the one about to bring total destruction? No opponent rises a second time!

Douay-Rheims Bible
What do ye devise against the Lord? he will make an utter end: there shall not rise a double affliction.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

What do ye devise against the Lord? he will make an utter end: there shall not rise a double affliction.

do.

Nahum 1:11 Out of thee shall come forth one that imagineth evil against the Lord, contriving treachery in his mind.

Psalm 2:1-4 Why have the Gentiles raged, and the people devised vain things? . . .

Psalm 21:11 For they have intended evils against thee: they have devised counsels which they have not been able to establish.

Psalm 33:10 The Lord bringeth to nought the counsels of nations; and he rejecteth the devices of people, and casteth away the counsels of princes.

Proverbs 21:30 There is no wisdom, there is no prudence, there is no counsel against the Lord.

Isaiah 8:9,10 Gather yourselves together, O ye people, and be overcome, and give ear, all ye lands afar off: strengthen yourselves, and be overcome, gird yourselves, and be overcome. . . .

Ezekiel 38:10,11 Thus saith the Lord God: In that day projects shall enter into thy heart, and thou shalt conceive a mischievous design. . . .

Acts 4:25-28 Who, by the Holy Ghost, by the mouth of our father David, thy servant, hast said: Why did the Gentiles rage: and the people meditate vain things? . . .

2 Corinthians 10:5 And every height that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God: and bringing into captivity every understanding unto the obedience of Christ:

he.

1 Samuel 3:12 In that day I will raise up against Heli all the things I have spoken concerning his house: I will begin, and I will make an end.

1 Samuel 26:8 And Abisai said to David: God hath shut up thy enemy this day into thy hands: now then I will run him through with my spear, even to the earth at once, and there shall be no need of a second time.

2 Samuel 20:10 But Amasa did not take notice of the sword, which Joab had, and he struck him in the side, and shed out his bowels to the ground, and gave him not a second wound, and he died. And Joab, and Abisai his brother pursued after Seba the son of Bochri.

Context
The Oracle of Nineveh
8But with a flood that passeth by, he will make an utter end of the place thereof: and darkness shall pursue his enemies. 9What do ye devise against the Lord? he will make an utter end: there shall not rise a double affliction.10For as thorns embrace one another: so while they are feasting and drinking together, they shall be consumed as stubble that is fully dry.…
Cross References
Psalm 2:1
Why have the Gentiles raged, and the people devised vain things?

Isaiah 28:22
And now do not mock, lest your bonds be tied strait. For I have heard of the Lord the God of hosts a consumption and a cutting short upon all the earth.

Jeremiah 51:64
And thou shalt say: Thus shall Babylon sink, and she shall not rise up from the affliction that I will bring upon her, and she shall be utterly destroyed. Thus far are the words of Jeremiah.

Ezekiel 7:5
Thus saith the Lord God: One affliction, behold an affliction is come.

Ezekiel 21:5
That all flesh may know that I the Lord have drawn my sword out of its sheath not to be turned back.

Hosea 7:15
And I have chastised them, and strengthened their arms: and they have imagined evil against me.

Nahum 1:11
Out of thee shall come forth one that imagineth evil against the Lord, contriving treachery in his mind.

Nahum 1:8
Top of Page
Top of Page