Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
What do ye devise against LORD? He will make a full end. Affliction shall not rise up the second time.
New American Standard Bible
He will make a
Distress will not rise up twice.
King James Version
What do ye imagine against the LORD? he will make an utter end: affliction shall not rise up the second time.
Holman Bible
He will bring it to complete destruction;
oppression will not rise up a second time.
International Standard Version
What are you scheming against the LORD? He will bring about utter desolation adversity will not strike twice!
American Standard Version
What do ye devise against Jehovah? he will make a full end; affliction shall not rise up the second time.
Amplified
Whatever [plot] you [Assyrians] devise against the Lord,
He will make a complete end of it;
Affliction [of God’s people by the hand of Assyria] will not occur twice.
Bible in Basic English
What are you designing against the Lord? he will put an end to it: his haters will not come up again a second time.
Darby Translation
What do ye imagine against Jehovah? He will make a full end: trouble shall not rise up the second time.
Julia Smith Translation
What will ye purpose against Jehovah? he made a completion: straits shall not rise up twice.
King James 2000
What do you imagine against the LORD? he will make an utter end: affliction shall not rise up the second time.
Lexham Expanded Bible
What do you plot against Yahweh? {He will completely destroy it}; trouble will not rise up a second time!
Modern King James verseion
What are you plotting against Jehovah? He will make an utter end; affliction shall not rise up the second time.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
What imagine ye against the LORD? He makes an utter end: ye shall not be troubled twice.
NET Bible
Whatever you plot against the Lord, he will completely destroy! Distress will not arise a second time.
New Heart English Bible
What do you plot against the LORD? He will make a full end. Affliction won't rise up the second time.
The Emphasized Bible
What can ye devise against Yahweh? A full end, is he making, - Distress, shall not rise up twice:
Webster
What do ye imagine against the LORD? he will make an utter end: affliction shall not rise up the second time.
World English Bible
What do you plot against Yahweh? He will make a full end. Affliction won't rise up the second time.
Youngs Literal Translation
What do we devise against Jehovah? An end He is making, arise not twice doth distress.
Interlinear
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Nahum 1:9
Verse Info
Context Readings
Destruction Of Nineveh
8 But with an over running flood he will make a full end of her place, and will pursue his enemies into darkness. 9 What do ye devise against LORD? He will make a full end. Affliction shall not rise up the second time. 10 For entangled like thorns, and drunken as with their drink, they are consumed utterly as dry stubble.
Phrases
Cross References
Psalm 2:1-4
Why do the nations rage, and the peoples meditate vain {things (LXX/NT)}?
Psalm 21:11
For they intended evil against thee. They conceived a device which they are not able to perform.
Psalm 33:10
LORD brings the counsel of the nations to naught. He makes the thoughts of the peoples to be of no effect.
Proverbs 21:30
There is no wisdom nor understanding nor counsel against LORD.
Isaiah 8:9-10
Make an uproar, O ye peoples, and be broken in pieces. And give ear, all ye of far countries. Gird yourselves, and be broken in pieces. Gird yourselves, and be broken in pieces.
Ezekiel 38:10-11
Thus says lord LORD: It shall come to pass in that day, that things shall come into thy mind, and thou shall devise an evil plan.
Nahum 1:11
He has gone forth out of thee, who devises evil against LORD, who counsels wickedness.
Acts 4:25-28
He who said through the mouth of thy boy David, Why do the nations rage, and the peoples meditate vain things?
2 Corinthians 10:5
casting down imaginations, and every high thing exalted against the knowledge of God, and bringing every thought captive into the obedience of the Christ,
1 Samuel 3:12
In that day I will perform against Eli all that I have spoken concerning his house, from the beginning even to the end.
1 Samuel 26:8
Then said Abishai to David, God has delivered up thine enemy into thy hand this day. Now therefore let me smite him, I pray thee, with the spear to the earth at one stroke, and I will not smite him the second time.
2 Samuel 20:10
But Amasa took no heed to the sword that was in Joab's hand. So he smote him with it in the body, and shed out his bowels to the ground, and struck him not again, and he died. And Joab and Abishai his brother pursued after Sheba th