What do ye imagine against the Lord? he will make an utter end: affliction shall not rise up the second time.

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Whatever they plot(A) against the Lord
    he will bring[a] to an end;
    trouble will not come a second time.

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Footnotes

  1. Nahum 1:9 Or What do you foes plot against the Lord? / He will bring it

11 There is one come out of thee, that imagineth evil against the Lord, a wicked counsellor.

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11 From you, Nineveh, has one come forth
    who plots evil against the Lord
    and devises wicked plans.

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22 Whom hast thou reproached and blasphemed? and against whom hast thou exalted thy voice, and lifted up thine eyes on high? even against the Holy One of Israel.

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22 Who is it you have ridiculed and blasphemed?(A)
    Against whom have you raised your voice
and lifted your eyes in pride?
    Against the Holy One(B) of Israel!

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27 But I know thy abode, and thy going out, and thy coming in, and thy rage against me.

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27 “‘But I know(A) where you are
    and when you come and go
    and how you rage against me.

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28 Because thy rage against me and thy tumult is come up into mine ears, therefore I will put my hook in thy nose, and my bridle in thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou camest.

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28 Because you rage against me
    and because your insolence has reached my ears,
I will put my hook(A) in your nose
    and my bit(B) in your mouth,
and I will make you return(C)
    by the way you came.’

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