Parallel Verses
Holman Bible
the Lord takes vengeance
and is fierce in
The Lord takes vengeance against His foes;
He is furious with His enemies.
New American Standard Bible
The Lord is
The Lord takes
And He reserves wrath for His enemies.
King James Version
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.
International Standard Version
A jealous God, the LORD avenges. The LORD avenges; The Lord is an angry husband. The LORD takes vengeance on his enemies, reserving anger for his adversaries.
A Conservative Version
LORD is a jealous God and avenges. LORD avenges and is full of wrath. LORD takes vengeance on his adversaries, and he reserves [wrath] for his enemies.
American Standard Version
Jehovah is a jealous God and avengeth; Jehovah avengeth and is full of wrath; Jehovah taketh vengeance on his adversaries, and he reserveth wrath for his enemies.
Amplified
The Lord is a jealous and avenging God [protecting and demanding what is rightfully and uniquely His];
The Lord avenges and He is full of wrath.
The Lord takes vengeance on His adversaries,
And He reserves wrath for His enemies.
Bible in Basic English
The Lord is a God who takes care of his honour and gives punishment for wrong; the Lord gives punishment and is angry; the Lord sends punishment on those who are against him, being angry with his haters.
Darby Translation
A jealous and avenging God is Jehovah: an avenger is Jehovah, and full of fury: Jehovah taketh vengeance on his adversaries, and he reserveth wrath for his enemies.
Julia Smith Translation
God is jealous and Jehovah avenging; Jehovah avenging and possessing wrath; Jehovah avenging to his adversaries and he keeping for his enemies.
King James 2000
God is jealous, and the LORD avenges; the LORD avenges, and is furious; the LORD will take vengeance on his adversaries, and he reserves wrath for his enemies.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Yahweh is a jealous God and avenging; Yahweh is avenging and {full of wrath}. Yahweh takes vengeance against his enemies; he rages against his adversaries.
Modern King James verseion
God is jealous, and Jehovah revenges; Jehovah revenges and is a possessor of wrath. Jehovah takes vengeance against His foes, and He keeps wrath against His enemies.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
The LORD is a jealous God, and a taker of vengeance: yea, a taker of vengeance is the LORD, and wrathful. The LORD taketh vengeance of his enemies, and reserveth displeasure for his adversaries.
NET Bible
The Lord is a zealous and avenging God; the Lord is avenging and very angry. The Lord takes vengeance against his foes; he sustains his rage against his enemies.
New Heart English Bible
The LORD is a jealous God and avenges. The LORD avenges and is full of wrath. The LORD takes vengeance on his adversaries, and he maintains wrath against his enemies.
The Emphasized Bible
A GOD jealous and avenging, is Yahweh, an avenger, is Yahweh, and a lord of wrath, an avenger, is Yahweh towards his adversaries, and, a retainer of anger , is he to his foes.
Webster
God is jealous, and the LORD avengeth; the LORD avengeth, and is furious; the LORD will take vengeance on his adversaries, and he reserveth wrath for his enemies.
World English Bible
Yahweh is a jealous God and avenges. Yahweh avenges and is full of wrath. Yahweh takes vengeance on his adversaries, and he maintains wrath against his enemies.
Youngs Literal Translation
A God zealous and avenging is Jehovah, An avenger is Jehovah, and possessing fury. An avenger is Jehovah on His adversaries, And He is watching for His enemies.
Themes
God » The incarnation of Christ, both a mystery and a revelation » Vengeance of
God » Is declared to be » Jealous
Opposition » Those that oppose the lord
Topics
Interlinear
Naqam
נקם
Naqam
avenge, vengeance, revenge, take, avenger, punished, surely
Usage: 35
Ba`al
Naqam
Word Count of 20 Translations in Nahum 1:2
Prayers for Nahum 1:2
Verse Info
Context Readings
Half-Acrostic: Yahweh Takes Vengeance Against His Enemies
1
The oracle concerning Nineveh.
the Lord takes vengeance
and is fierce in
The Lord takes vengeance against His foes;
He is furious with His enemies.
the Lord will never leave the guilty unpunished.
His path is in the whirlwind and storm,
and clouds are the dust beneath His feet.
Names
Cross References
Exodus 20:5
Psalm 94:1
Lord, God of vengeance—
God of vengeance, appear.
Zechariah 8:2
“The Lord of Hosts says this: I am extremely jealous
Exodus 34:14
You are never to bow down to another god because Yahweh, being jealous
Deuteronomy 4:24
For the Lord your God is a consuming fire,
Joshua 24:19
But Joshua told the people, “You will not be able to worship Yahweh, because He is a holy God. He is a jealous God;
Isaiah 42:13
He stirs up His zeal like a soldier.
He shouts, He roars aloud,
He prevails over His enemies.
Ezekiel 6:12
The one who is far off will die by plague; the one who is near will fall by the sword; and the one who remains and is spared
Leviticus 26:28
I will act with furious hostility toward you; I will also discipline you seven times for your sins.
Deuteronomy 32:34-35
sealed up in My vaults?
Deuteronomy 32:41-43
and My hand takes hold of judgment,
I will take vengeance on My adversaries
and repay those who hate Me.
Job 20:23
God will send His burning anger against him,
raining
Isaiah 51:17
Stand up, Jerusalem,
you who have drunk the cup of His fury
from the hand of the Lord;
you who have drunk the goblet to the dregs—
the cup that causes people to stagger.
Isaiah 51:20
they lie at the head of every street
like an antelope in a net.
They are full of the Lord’s fury,
the rebuke of your God.
Isaiah 59:17-18
and a helmet of salvation on His head;
He put on garments of vengeance for clothing,
and He wrapped Himself in zeal as in a cloak.
Isaiah 63:3-6
and no one from the nations was with Me.
I trampled them in My anger
and ground them underfoot in My fury;
their blood spattered My garments,
and all My clothes were stained.
Isaiah 66:15
His chariots are like the whirlwind
to execute His anger with fury
and His rebuke with flames of fire.
Jeremiah 3:5
Will He be endlessly infuriated?”
This is what you have said,
but you have done the evil things
you are capable of.
Jeremiah 4:4
remove the foreskin of your hearts,
men of Judah and residents of Jerusalem.
Otherwise, My wrath will break out like fire
and burn with no one to extinguish it
because of your evil deeds.
Jeremiah 25:15
This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, said to me: “Take this cup of the wine of wrath from My hand and make all the nations I am sending you to, drink from it.
Jeremiah 36:7
Perhaps their petition will come before the Lord,
Lamentations 4:11
כ Kaf
poured out His burning anger;
He has ignited a fire in Zion,
and it has consumed her foundations.
Ezekiel 5:13
When My anger is spent and I have vented My wrath on them, I will be appeased.
Ezekiel 8:18
Therefore I will respond with wrath.
Ezekiel 36:6
Therefore, prophesy concerning the land of Israel and say to the mountains and hills, to the ravines and valleys: This is what the Lord God says: Look, I speak in My burning zeal
Ezekiel 38:18
Now on that day, the day when Gog comes against the land of Israel”—this is the declaration of the Lord God—“My wrath will flare up.
Ezekiel 39:25
“So this is what the Lord God says: Now I will restore the fortunes of Jacob
Joel 2:18
Then the Lord became jealous for His land
Micah 5:15
against the nations that have not obeyed Me.
Micah 7:18
removing iniquity and passing over rebellion
for the remnant of His inheritance?
He does not hold on to His anger forever,
because He delights in faithful love.
Zechariah 1:14
So the angel who was speaking with me said, “Proclaim: The Lord of Hosts says: I am extremely jealous
Romans 2:5-6
But because of your hardness and unrepentant heart you are storing up wrath
Romans 12:19
Friends, do not avenge yourselves; instead, leave room for His
Romans 13:4
For government is God’s servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, because it does not carry the sword for no reason. For government is God’s servant, an avenger
Hebrews 10:30
For we know the One who has said, Vengeance belongs to Me, I will repay,
2 Peter 2:9
then the Lord knows how to rescue