Whatever you (A)devise against the Lord,
He will make a (B)complete end of it.
Distress will not rise up twice.
10 Like tangled (C)thorns,
And like those who are (D)drunken with their drink,
They are (E)consumed
Like stubble completely dried up.
11 From you has gone out
One who (F)plotted evil against the Lord,
A [a](G)wicked counselor.

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Footnotes

  1. Nahum 1:11 Or worthless; Heb Belial

What do you plot against the Lord?
    He will make a full end;
    he will not take vengeance[a] twice on his foes.[b]
10 Like entangled thorns they are consumed,[c]
    like dry stubble.
11 Did one not[d] come out from you,
    who plotted evil against the Lord,
    and counseled villainy?

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Footnotes

  1. Nahum 1:9 Gk: Heb rise up
  2. Nahum 1:9 Cn: Heb distress
  3. Nahum 1:10 Heb are consumed, drunken as with their drink
  4. Nahum 1:11 Cn: Heb fully