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Nahum 1:9-11
Amplified Bible, Classic Edition
Nahum 1:9-11
Amplified Bible, Classic Edition
9 What do you devise and [how mad is your attempt to] plot against the Lord? He will make a full end [of Nineveh]; affliction [which My people shall suffer from Assyria] shall not rise up the second time.
10 For [the Ninevites] are as bundles of thorn branches [for fuel], and even while drowned in their drunken [carousing] they shall be consumed like stubble fully dry [in the day of the Lord’s wrath].(A)
11 There is one gone forth out of you [O Nineveh] who plots evil against the Lord, a villainous [a]counselor [the king of Assyria, who counsels for wickedness and worthlessness].(B)
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- Nahum 1:11 The reference here may be to Sennacherib, who reigned over Assyria from 705-681 b.c.
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