Parallel Verses
American Standard Version
What do ye devise against Jehovah? 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!
A Conservative Version
What do ye devise against LORD? 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 Jehovah? 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 a vain thing?
Psalm 21:11
For they intended evil against thee; They conceived a device which they are not able to perform.
Psalm 33:10
Jehovah bringeth the counsel of the nations to nought; He maketh the thoughts of the peoples to be of no effect.
Proverbs 21:30
There is no wisdom nor understanding Nor counsel against Jehovah.
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 saith the Lord Jehovah: It shall come to pass in that day, that things shall come into thy mind, and thou shalt devise an evil device:
Nahum 1:11
There is one gone forth out of thee, that deviseth evil against Jehovah, that counselleth wickedness.
Acts 4:25-28
who by the Holy Spirit, by the mouth of our father David thy servant, didst say, Why did the Gentiles rage, And the peoples imagine vain things?
2 Corinthians 10:5
casting down imaginations, and every high thing that is exalted against the knowledge of God, and bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of 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 unto the end.
1 Samuel 26:8
Then said Abishai to David, God hath 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 therewith 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 the son of Bichri.