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 Living Translation (NLT)Who can stand before his fierce anger? Who can survive his burning fury? His rage blazes forth like fire, and the mountains crumble to dust in his presence.

Context of Nahum 1:6

4He rebukes the sea and makes it dry, And dries up all the rivers. Bashan and Carmel wither, And the flower of Lebanon wilts. 5The mountains quake before Him, The hills melt, And the earth heaves at His presence, Yes, the world and all who dwell in it. 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. 7The Lord is good, A stronghold in the day of trouble; And He knows those who trust in Him. 8But with an overflowing flood He will make an utter end of its place, And darkness will pursue His enemies.

Nahum 1:6 word by word

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

Words taken from the KJV.

• Who can standעָמַד‛âmad · to stand: standH5975
• beforeפָּנֶהpânîym · face: beforeH6440
• his indignationזַ֫עַםza‛am · indignationH2195
• and who can abideקוּםqûm · to arise: riseH6965
• in the fiercenessחָרוֹןchârôn chârôn · burning angerH2740
• of his angerאַף'aph · face: angerH639
• his furyחֵמָהchêmâh chêmâ' · rageH2534
• is poured outנָתַךְnâthak · to pourH5413
• like fireאֵשׁ'êsh · fireH784
• and the rocksצוּרtsûr tsûr · rockH6697
• are thrown downנָתַץnâthats · to tearH5422

Cross-references for Nahum 1:6

• Psalms 2:12Kiss the Son, lest He be angry, And you perish in the way, When His wrath is kindled but a little. Blessed are all those who put their trust in Him.
• Psalms 76:7You, Yourself, are to be feared; And who may stand in Your presence When once You are angry?
• Psalms 90:11Who knows the power of Your anger? For as the fear of You, so is Your wrath.
• Isaiah 27:4Fury is not in Me. Who would set briers and thorns Against Me in battle? I would go through them, I would burn them together.
• Jeremiah 10:10But the Lord is the true God; He is the living God and the everlasting King. At His wrath the earth will tremble, And the nations will not be able to 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 launderers’ soap.
• Revelation 6:17For the great day of His wrath has come, and who is able to stand?”
• Nahum 1:2God is jealous, and the Lord avenges; The Lord avenges and is furious. The Lord will take vengeance on His adversaries, And He reserves wrath for His enemies;
• Deuteronomy 32:22For a fire is kindled in My anger, And shall burn to the lowest hell; It shall consume the earth with her increase, And set on fire the foundations of the mountains.
• Isaiah 10:16Therefore the Lord, the Lord of hosts, Will send leanness among his fat ones; And under his glory He will kindle a burning Like the burning of a fire.
• Lamentations 2:4Standing like an enemy, He has bent His bow; With His right hand, like an adversary, He has slain all who were pleasing to His eye; On the tent of the daughter of Zion, He has poured out His fury like fire.
• Lamentations 4:11The Lord has fulfilled His fury, He has poured out His fierce anger. He kindled a fire in Zion, And it has devoured its foundations.
• Ezekiel 30:16And set a fire in Egypt; Sin shall have great pain, No shall be split open, And Noph shall be in distress daily.
• Revelation 16:1Then I heard a loud voice from the temple saying to the seven angels, “Go and pour out the bowls of the wrath of God on the earth.”

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
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• 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