Nahum 1:6

Nahum 1:6 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)Who 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.
• New International Version (NIV)Who can withstand his indignation? Who can endure his fierce anger? His wrath is poured out like fire; the rocks are shattered before him.
• English Standard Version (ESV)Who can stand before his indignation? Who can endure the heat of his anger? His wrath is poured out like fire, and the rocks are broken into pieces by him.
• New King James Version (NKJV)Who can stand before His indignation? And who can endure the fierceness of His anger? His fury is poured out like fire, And the rocks are thrown down by Him.

Context of Nahum 1:6

4He rebukes the sea and dries it up; He dries up all the rivers. Bashan and Carmel wither, The blossoms of Lebanon wither. 5Mountains quake because of Him, And the hills come apart; Indeed the earth is upheaved by His presence, The world and all the inhabitants in it. Who can stand before His indignation? Who can endure the burning of His anger? His wrath gushes forth like fire, And the rocks are broken up by Him. 7The Lord is good, A stronghold in the day of trouble, And He knows those who take refuge in Him. 8But with an overflowing flood He will make a complete end of its site, And will pursue His enemies into darkness.

Nahum 1:6 word by word

לִפְנֵ֤י זַעְמוֹ֙ מִ֣י יַֽעֲמ֔וֹד וּמִ֥י יָק֖וּם בַּחֲר֣וֹן אַפּ֑וֹ חֲמָתוֹ֙ נִתְּכָ֣ה כָאֵ֔שׁ וְהַצֻּרִ֖ים נִתְּצ֥וּ מִמֶּֽנּוּ׃Read the interlinear

• Whoמִיmîy · who?H4310
• can standעָמַד‛âmad · to stand: standH5975
• beforeפָּנֶהpânîym · face: beforeH6440
• His indignationזַ֫עַםza‛am · indignationH2195
• can endureקוּםqûm · to arise: riseH6965
• burningחָרוֹןchârôn chârôn · burning angerH2740
• of His angerאַף'aph · face: angerH639
• wrathחֵמָהchêmâh chêmâ' · rageH2534
• gushesנָתַךְnâthak · to pourH5413
• like fireאֵשׁ'êsh · fireH784
• rocksצוּרtsûr tsûr · rockH6697
• are brokenנָתַץnâthats · to tearH5422

Cross-references for Nahum 1:6

• Psalms 2:12Kiss the Son, that He not be angry and you perish on the way, For His wrath may be kindled quickly. How blessed are all who take refuge in Him!
• Psalms 76:7You, You indeed are to be feared, And who may stand in Your presence, once You are angry?
• Psalms 90:11Who understands the power of Your anger And Your fury, according to the fear that is due You?
• Isaiah 27:4I have no wrath. Should someone give Me briars and thorns in battle, Then I would step on them, I would burn them completely.
• Jeremiah 10:10But the Lord is the true God; He is the living God and the everlasting King. The earth quakes at His wrath, And the nations cannot endure His indignation.
• Malachi 3:2“But who can endure the day of His coming? And who can stand when He appears? For He is like a refiner’s fire, and like launderer’s soap.
• Revelation 6:17for the great day of Their wrath has come, and who is able to stand?”
• Nahum 1:2A jealous and avenging God is the Lord; The Lord is avenging and wrathful. The Lord takes vengeance on His adversaries, And He reserves wrath for His enemies.
• Deuteronomy 32:22For a fire has flared in My anger, And it burns to the lowest part of Sheol, And devours the earth with its yield, And sets on fire the foundations of the mountains.
• Isaiah 10:16Therefore the Lord, the God of armies, will send a wasting disease among his stout warriors; And under his glory a fire will be kindled like a burning flame.
• Lamentations 2:4He has bent His bow like an enemy; His right hand is positioned like an adversary, And He has killed everything that was pleasant to the eye. In the tent of the daughter of Zion He has poured out His wrath like fire.
• Lamentations 4:11The Lord has expended His wrath, He has poured out His fierce anger; And He has kindled a fire in Zion, And it has consumed its foundations.
• Ezekiel 30:16I will set a fire in Egypt; Sin will writhe in anguish, Thebes will be breached And Memphis will have distresses daily.
• Revelation 16:1Then I heard a loud voice from the temple, saying to the seven angels, “Go and pour out on the earth the seven bowls of the wrath of God.”

Commentaries on Nahum 1:6

• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 6The Hebrew word translated "wrath" appears again from Nahum 1:2. This repetition marks Nahum 1:2–6 as one poetic section.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 66. fury is poured out like fire--like the liquid fire poured out of volcanoes in all directions (see Jr 7:20). rocks are thrown down--or, "are burnt asunder"; the usual effect of volcanic fire (Jr 51:25, 56). As Hannibal burst asunder the Alpine rocks by fire to make a passage for his army [Grotius].Read the comment

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In the dictionaries

• Adversary
• Atonement
• Lightning
• Vengeance
• Job, Book of
• Nahum; the Book of

Commentaries on Nahum 1

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings