the Week of Proper 18 / Ordinary 23
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Nahum 1:9
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Whatever you plot against the Lord,he will bring it to complete destruction;oppression will not rise up a second time.
What do you plot against the LORD? He will make a full end. Affliction won't rise up the second time.
What doe ye imagine against the Lord ? he will make an vtter ende: affliction shall not rise vp the second time.
What do ye imagine against the Lord ? he will make an utter end: affliction shall not rise up the second time.
What do you plot against the Lord ? He will make a complete end; trouble will not rise up a second time.
Whatever you devise against the LORD, He will make a complete end of it. Distress will not rise up twice.
The Lord will completely destroy anyone making plans against him. Trouble will not come a second time.
Whatever [plot] you [Assyrians] devise against the LORD, He will make a complete end of it; Affliction [of God's people by the hand of Assyria] will not occur twice.
What doe ye imagine against the Lord? he wil make an vtter destruction: affliction shal not rise vp the seconde time.
Whatever you devise against the LORD, He will make a complete end of it. Distress will not rise up twice.
Whatever you devise against Yahweh,He will make a complete destruction of it.Distress will not rise up twice.
Whatever you plot against the LORD, He will bring to an end. Affliction will not rise up a second time.
So don't plot against the Lord ! He wipes out his enemies, and they never revive.
What are you planning against Adonai ? He is making an end [of it]; trouble will not arise a second time.
What do ye imagine against Jehovah? He will make a full end: trouble shall not rise up the second time.
Why are you making plans against the Lord ? He will bring complete destruction, so you will not cause trouble again.
What do you imagine against the LORD? He will make an utter end; affliction shall not rise up the second time.
What are you plotting against the Lord ? He will destroy you. No one opposes him more than once.
What do you plot against Yahweh? He will completely destroy it; trouble will not rise up a second time!
What are you plotting against Jehovah? He will make an utter end; distress shall not rise up a second time.
What do ye devise against Jehovah? he will make a full end; affliction shall not rise up the second time.
What are you designing against the Lord? he will put an end to it: his haters will not come up again a second time.
What do ye devise against the LORD? He will make a full end; trouble shall not rise up the second time.
What imagine ye against the Lorde? he makes an vtter destruction: ye shall not be troubled twyse.
What do ye devise against the Lord? he will make a complete end: he will not take vengeance by affliction twice at the same time.
What do ye imagine against the LORD? he will make a full end: affliction shall not rise up the second time.
What do you plot against Yahweh? He will make a full end. Affliction won't rise up the second time.
What thenken ye ayens the Lord? He schal make ende; double tribulacioun schal not rise togidere.
What do you devise against Yahweh? he will make a full end; affliction shall not rise up the second time.
What do ye imagine against the LORD? he will make an utter end: affliction shall not rise up the second time.
What do you conspire against the LORD? He will make an utter end of it. Affliction will not rise up a second time.
Why are you scheming against the Lord ? He will destroy you with one blow; he won't need to strike twice!
Whatever plan you make against the Lord, He will destroy it. Trouble will not come a second time.
Why do you plot against the Lord ? He will make an end; no adversary will rise up twice.
What can ye devise against Yahweh? A full end, is he making, - Distress, shall not rise up twice:
What do ye devise against the Lord? he will make an utter end: there shall not rise a double affliction.
What do you plot against the LORD? He will make a full end; he will not take vengeance twice on his foes.
What do we devise against Jehovah? An end He is making, arise not twice doth distress.
What do ye ymagin then agaynst the LORDE on this maner? (Tush, when he hath once made an ende, there shal come nomore trouble.)
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
do: Nahum 1:11, Psalms 2:1-4, Psalms 21:11, Psalms 33:10, Proverbs 21:30, Isaiah 8:9, Isaiah 8:10, Ezekiel 38:10, Ezekiel 38:11, Acts 4:25-28, 2 Corinthians 10:5
he: 1 Samuel 3:12, 1 Samuel 26:8, 2 Samuel 20:10
Reciprocal: Exodus 15:7 - them that Psalms 9:6 - destructions Isaiah 10:27 - his burden Isaiah 37:29 - rage Jeremiah 51:64 - Thus shall Ezekiel 7:5 - General Ezekiel 20:17 - neither Ezekiel 21:5 - it shall Hosea 7:15 - imagine Amos 7:8 - I will not Habakkuk 2:5 - he transgresseth Habakkuk 2:7 - they
Cross-References
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
Now the earth was without shape and empty, and darkness was over the surface of the watery deep, but the Spirit of God was moving over the surface of the water.
God called the light "day" and the darkness "night." There was evening, and there was morning, marking the first day.
God said, "Let there be an expanse in the midst of the waters and let it separate water from water."
God called the expanse "sky." There was evening, and there was morning, a second day.
God said, "Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place and let dry ground appear." It was so.
God said, "Let the land produce vegetation: plants yielding seeds according to their kinds, and trees bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds." It was so.
God blessed them and said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply! Fill the earth and subdue it! Rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and every creature that moves on the ground."
Then God said, "I now give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the entire earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food.
He spreads out the northern skies over empty space; he suspends the earth on nothing.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
What do ye imagine against the Lord?.... O ye Ninevites or Assyrians; do you think you can frustrate the designs of the Lord, resist his power, and hinder him from executing what he has threatened and has determined to do? or what mischief is it you devise against his people, which is the same as against himself? can you believe that you shall prosper and succeed, and your schemes be carried into execution, when he, the all wise and all powerful Being, opposes you?
he will make an utter end; of you, as before declared, and will save his people; which may be depended on will certainly be the case:
affliction shall not rise up the second time; either this should be the last effort the Assyrians would make upon the Jews, which they made under Sennacherib, and this the last time they would afflict them; or rather their own destruction should be so complete that there would be no need to repeat the stroke, or give another blow; the business would be done at once. This seems to contradict a notion of some historians and chronologers, who suppose that Nineveh was destroyed at two different times, and by different persons of the same nations; and so the whole Assyrian empire was twice ruined, which is not likely in itself, and seems contrary to this passage; for though some ascribe it to Arbaces the Mede, and Belesis the Babylonian as Diodorus Siculus e; and others to Cyaxares the Mede as Herodotus f, and to Nebuchadnezzar the first, or Nabopolassar the Babylonian in a later period; so Tobit g says it was taken by Nebuchadnezzar and Ahasuerus, the same with the Cyaxares of Herodotus; yet all seem to agree that it was taken by the conjunct forces of the Medes and Babylonians; and there are some things similar h in all these accounts, which show that there was but one destruction of Nineveh, and of the Assyrian empire.
e Bibliothec. l. 2. p. 110, 111. f L. 1. sive Clio, c. 106. g Tobit 14:15. h See the Universal History, vol. 4. c. 8. sect. 5. & vol. 5. p. 22. Margin, & Nicolai Abrami Pharus Vet. Test. l. 6. c. 19. p. 165.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
The prophet had in few words summed up the close of Nineveh; he now upbraids them with the sin, which should bring it upon them, and foretells the destruction of Sennacherib. Nineveh had, before this, been the instrument of chastising Israel and Judah. Now, the capture of Samaria, which had cast off God, deceived and emboldened it. Its king thought that this was the might of his own arm; and likened the Lord of heaven and earth to the idols of the pagan, and said, “Who are they among all the gods of the countries, that have delivered their country out of mine hand, that the Lord should deliver Jerusalem out of mine hand?” 2 Kings 18:35. He sent “to reproach the living God” 2 Kings 19:16 and “defied the Holy One of Israel” (see 2 Kings 19:15-34). His blasphemy was his destruction. It was a war, not simply of ambition, or covetousness, but directly against the power and worship of God.
“What will ye so mightily devise” , “imagine against the Lord?” He Himself, by Himself, is already “making an utter end.” It is in store; the Angel is ready to smite. Idle are man’s devices, when the Lord doeth. “Take counsel together, and it shall come to nought; speak the word, and it shall not stand: for God is with us” Isaiah 8:10. While the rich man was speaking comfort to his soul as to future years, God was making an utter end. “Thou fool, this night shall thy soul be required of thee.”
Affliction shall not rise up the second time - Others have understood this, “affliction shall not rise up the second time,” but shall destroy at once, utterly and finally (compare 1 Samuel 26:8; 2 Samuel 20:10): but:
(1) the idiom there, “he did not repeat to him,” as we say, “he did not repeat the blow” is quite different;
(2) it is said “affliction shall not rise up,” itself, as if it could not. The causative of the idiom occurs in 2 Samuel 12:11, “lo, I will cause evil to rise up against thee;” as he says afterward, “Though I have afflicted thee, I will afflict thee no more” Nahum 1:12. “God,” He had said, “is good for a refuge in the day of affliction;” now, personifying that affliction, he says, that it should be so utterly broken, that it should rise up no more to vex them, as when a serpent’s head is, not wounded only but, crushed and trampled underfoot, so that it cannot again lift itself up. The promises of God are conditioned by our not falling back into sin. He saith to Nineveh, “God will not deliver Judah to thee, as He delivered the ten tribes and Samaria.” Judah repented under Hezekiah, and He not only delivered it from Sennacherib, but never afflicted them again through Assyria. Renewal of sin brings renewal or deepening of punishment. The new and more grievous sins under Manasseh were punished, not through Assyria but through the Chaldeans.
The words have passed into a maxim, “God will not punish the same thing twice,” not in this world and the world to come, i. e., not if repented of. For of the impenitent it is said, “destroy them with a double destruction” Jeremiah 17:18. Chastisement here is a token of God’s mercy; the absence of it, or prosperous sin, of perdition; but if any refuse to be corrected, the chastisement of this life is but the beginning of unending torments.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse 9. Affliction shall not rise up the second time. — There shall be no need to repeat the judgment; with one blow God will make a full end of the business.
