Nahum 1:2-4
GOD’S WORD Translation
Who Can Withstand the Lord’s Anger?
2 God does not tolerate rivals. The Lord takes revenge.
The Lord takes revenge and is full of anger.
The Lord takes revenge against his enemies
and holds a grudge against his foes.
3 The Lord is patient and has great strength.
The Lord will never let the guilty go unpunished.
Raging winds and storms mark his path,
and clouds are the dust from his feet.
4 He yells at the sea and makes it dry.
He dries up all the rivers.
Bashan and Carmel wither.
The flowers of Lebanon wither.
Nahum 1:2-4
King James Version
2 God is jealous, and the Lord revengeth; the Lord revengeth, and is furious; the Lord will take vengeance on his adversaries, and he reserveth wrath for his enemies.
3 The Lord is slow to anger, and great in power, and will not at all acquit the wicked: the Lord hath his way in the whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet.
4 He rebuketh the sea, and maketh it dry, and drieth up all the rivers: Bashan languisheth, and Carmel, and the flower of Lebanon languisheth.
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Nahum 1:2-4
English Standard Version
God's Wrath Against Nineveh
2 (A)The Lord is a jealous and avenging God;
the Lord is avenging and wrathful;
(B)the Lord takes vengeance on his adversaries
and (C)keeps wrath for his enemies.
3 (D)The Lord is slow to anger and (E)great in power,
and (F)the Lord will by no means clear the guilty.
(G)His way is in whirlwind and storm,
and the clouds are the dust of his feet.
4 (H)He rebukes the sea and makes it dry;
he dries up all the rivers;
(I)Bashan and (J)Carmel wither;
the bloom of (K)Lebanon withers.
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