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Nahum 1:11

One has gone out from you who is designing evil against the Lord, whose purposes are of no value.

Bible Study Resources

Dictionaries:

- Fausset Bible Dictionary - Nahum (2);   Holman Bible Dictionary - Nahum;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Acrostic;   Belial (Beliar);   Nahum;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Assyria;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Imagine;   Nahum, the Book of;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
One has gone out from you,who plots evil against the Lord,and is a wicked counselor.
Hebrew Names Version
There is one gone forth out of you, who devises evil against the LORD, who counsels wickedness.
King James Version (1611)
There is one come out of thee, that imagineth euill against the Lord: a wicked counseller.
King James Version
There is one come out of thee, that imagineth evil against the Lord , a wicked counsellor.
English Standard Version
From you came one who plotted evil against the Lord , a worthless counselor.
New American Standard Bible
From you has gone out One who plotted evil against the LORD, A wicked counselor.
New Century Version
Someone has come from Nineveh who makes evil plans against the Lord and gives wicked advice.
Amplified Bible
From you [O Nineveh], One has gone forth who plotted evil against the LORD, A malevolent counselor [the king of Assyria].
Geneva Bible (1587)
There commeth one out of thee that imagineth euill against the Lorde, euen a wicked counsellour.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
From you has gone forth One who plotted evil against the LORD, A wicked counselor.
Legacy Standard Bible
From you has gone forthOne who devised evil against Yahweh,A vile counselor.
Berean Standard Bible
From you, O Nineveh, comes forth a plotter of evil against the LORD, a counselor of wickedness.
Contemporary English Version
Assyria, one of your rulers has made evil plans against the Lord .
Complete Jewish Bible
Out of you, [Ninveh,] he came, one who plots evil against Adonai , who counsels wickedness.
Darby Translation
Out of thee is gone forth one that imagineth evil against Jehovah, a wicked counsellor.
Easy-to-Read Version
Someone from Nineveh is making evil plans against the Lord . That advisor is a worthless troublemaker.
George Lamsa Translation
Out of you shall come forth one who imagines evil against the LORD and gives wicked counsel.
Good News Translation
From you, Nineveh, there came someone full of wicked schemes, who plotted against the Lord .
Lexham English Bible
From you goes out one who plots evil against Yahweh, one who plans wickedness.
Literal Translation
One who devises evil against Jehovah has come forth from you, one counseling worthlessness.
American Standard Version
There is one gone forth out of thee, that deviseth evil against Jehovah, that counselleth wickedness.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Out of thee came he forth, that deviseth evil against the LORD, that counselleth wickedness.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
There came out of thee such as thought euyll against the Lorde, such as gaue wicked counsell.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Out of thee shall proceed a device against the Lord, counselling evil things hostile to him.
English Revised Version
There is one gone forth out of thee, that imagineth evil against the LORD, that counselleth wickedness.
World English Bible
There is one gone forth out of you, who devises evil against Yahweh, who counsels wickedness.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Of thee schal go out a man thenkynge malice ayens the Lord, and trete trespassyng in soule.
Update Bible Version
One has gone forth out of you, that devises evil against Yahweh, that counsels wickedness.
Webster's Bible Translation
There is [one] come out of thee, that imagineth evil against the LORD, a wicked counselor.
New English Translation
From you, O Nineveh, one has marched forth who plots evil against the Lord , a wicked military strategist.
New King James Version
From you comes forth one Who plots evil against the LORD, A wicked counselor.
New Living Translation
Who is this wicked counselor of yours who plots evil against the Lord ?
New Life Bible
From you one has come who makes sinful plans against the Lord, one who talks about sinful things to do.
New Revised Standard
From you one has gone out who plots evil against the Lord , one who counsels wickedness.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Out of thee, hath one come forth - plotting, against Yahweh, wickedness, - A counselor of the Abandoned One.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Out of thee shall come forth one that imagineth evil against the Lord, contriving treachery in his mind.
Revised Standard Version
Did one not come out from you, who plotted evil against the LORD, and counseled villainy?
Young's Literal Translation
From thee hath come forth a deviser of evil Against Jehovah -- a worthless counsellor.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
There come out of ye soch as ymagin myschefe, and geue vngracious councell agaynst the LORDE.
THE MESSAGE
Nineveh's an anthill of evil plots against God , A think tank for lies that seduce and betray.

Contextual Overview

9 What are you designing against the Lord? he will put an end to it: his haters will not come up again a second time. 10 For though they are like twisted thorns, and are overcome as with drink, they will come to destruction like stems of grass fully dry. 11 One has gone out from you who is designing evil against the Lord, whose purposes are of no value. 12 This is what the Lord has said: The days of my cause against you are ended; they are cut off and past. Though I have sent trouble on you, you will no longer be troubled. 13 And now I will let his yoke be broken off you, and your chains be parted. 14 The Lord has given an order about you, that no more of your name are to be planted: from the house of your gods I will have the pictured and metal images cut off; I will make your last resting-place a place of shame; for you are completely evil. 15 See on the mountains the feet of him who comes with good news, giving word of peace! Keep your feasts, O Judah, give effect to your oaths: for the good-for-nothing man will never again go through you; he is completely cut off.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

one: Nahum 1:9, 2 Kings 18:13, 2 Kings 18:14, 2 Kings 18:30, 2 Kings 19:22-25, 2 Chronicles 32:15-19, Isaiah 10:7-15

wicked counsellor: Heb. counsellor of Belial, 1 Samuel 2:12, 2 Samuel 20:1, 2 Chronicles 13:7

Reciprocal: Ezra 4:5 - hired Psalms 140:2 - imagine Proverbs 24:8 - General Isaiah 7:5 - Syria Micah 2:1 - to Nahum 1:15 - the wicked Zephaniah 3:19 - I will undo

Cross-References

Genesis 1:9
And God said, Let the waters under the heaven come together in one place, and let the dry land be seen: and it was so.
Genesis 1:13
And there was evening and there was morning, the third day.
Genesis 1:14
And God said, Let there be lights in the arch of heaven, for a division between the day and the night, and let them be for signs, and for marking the changes of the year, and for days and for years:
Genesis 1:16
And God made the two great lights: the greater light to be the ruler of the day, and the smaller light to be the ruler of the night: and he made the stars.
Genesis 1:17
And God put them in the arch of heaven, to give light on the earth;
Genesis 1:20
And God said, Let the waters be full of living things, and let birds be in flight over the earth under the arch of heaven.
Genesis 1:29
And God said, See, I have given you every plant producing seed, on the face of all the earth, and every tree which has fruit producing seed: they will be for your food:
Genesis 2:5
In the day when the Lord God made earth and heaven there were no plants of the field on the earth, and no grass had come up: for the Lord God had not sent rain on the earth and there was no man to do work on the land.
Genesis 2:9
And out of the earth the Lord made every tree to come, delighting the eye and good for food; and in the middle of the garden, the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
Genesis 2:16
And the Lord God gave the man orders, saying, You may freely take of the fruit of every tree of the garden:

Gill's Notes on the 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:

that imagineth evil against the Lord; against the people of the Lord, as the Targum; formed a scheme to invade the land of Judea, take the fenced cities thereof, and seize upon Jerusalem the metropolis of the nation, and carry the king, princes, and all the people captive as Shalmaneser his father had carried away the ten tribes:

a wicked counsellor; or "a counsellor of Belial" k; who, by Rabshakeh, advised Israel not to regard their king, nor trust in their God but surrender themselves up to him, 2 Kings 18:29.

k יועץ בליעל "consulens", Belijahai, Montanus; "consiliarius Belijaal", Burkius.

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 Notes on the Bible

Verse Nahum 1:11. 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.

A wicked counsellor.Sennacherib and Rabshakeh.


 
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