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

4Rebuking the sea, He made it dry, as He has dried up all the rivers. Bashan and Carmel languished, Yes, Lebanon’s budding languished. 5Mountains quaked because of Him, and the hills have melted. The earth has heaved up at His presence—yes, the world and everything dwelling in it. Before His indignation who can stand? Who can withstand His burning anger? His wrath is poured out like fire, and cliffs break down before Him. 7Adonai is good as a refuge in the day of distress, and He knows those who take refuge in Him. 8But with an overwhelming flood, He will make that place a total ruin. 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 become angry, and you perish along your way— since His wrath may flare up suddenly. Happy is everyone taking refuge in Him!
• Psalms 76:7At Your rebuke, O God of Jacob, both horse and rider lay dead asleep.
• Psalms 90:11Who knows the power of Your anger? Your fury leads to awe of you.
• Isaiah 27:4It is not that I have wrath. Who would give me thorns and thistles? Into battle I would march against them! I would burn them up altogether!
• Jeremiah 10:10But Adonai Elohim is truth. He is the living God and eternal King. At His wrath the earth quakes and the nations cannot endure His indignation.
• Malachi 3:2But who can endure the day of His coming? Or who can stand when He appears? For He will be like a refiner’s fire, and like soap for cleaning raw wool.
• 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 Adonai. Yes, Adonai is the avenger and master of wrath. Adonai is avenger to His adversaries, Yes, a keeper of wrath for His foes.
• Deuteronomy 32:22For fire has ignited in My nostrils— it will burn to Sheol beneath, devour the earth and her produce, and scorch the foundations of mountains.
• Isaiah 10:16Therefore will the Lord Adonai-Tzva’ot, send leanness among his fat ones. Under its glory He will kindle a burning like a blazing fire.
• Lamentations 2:4He bent His bow like an enemy, set His right hand like a foe, and killed all those pleasant to the eye. In the tent of the daughter of Zion He has poured out His wrath like fire.
• Lamentations 4:11Adonai has vented His fury. He has poured out His burning anger. Yes, He kindled a fire in Zion that devoured her foundations.
• Ezekiel 30:16I will set a fire in Egypt. Sin will writhe in anguish. No will be assaulted. Noph will face enemies 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 God’s wrath.”

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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• 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