Nahum 1:2

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Nahum 1:2

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Summary

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.

God is jealous, and the lord revengeth

Revengeth

Is furious

Reserveth

2 Peter 2:9

General references

Luke 19:27

Bible References

God is jealous, and the lord revengeth

You shall not worship them or serve them; for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and the fourth generations of those who hate Me,

—for you shall not worship any other god, for the Lord, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God—

For the Lord your God is a consuming fire, a jealous God.

Then Joshua said to the people, “You will not be able to serve the Lord, for He is a holy God. He is a jealous God; He will not forgive your transgression or your sins.

The Lord will go forth like a warrior,

He will arouse His zeal like a man of war.
He will utter a shout, yes, He will raise a war cry.
He will prevail against His enemies.

It will come about on that day, when Gog comes against the land of Israel,” declares the Lord God, “that My fury will mount up in My anger.

Therefore thus says the Lord God, “Now I will

restore the fortunes of Jacob and have mercy on the whole house of Israel; and I will be jealous for My holy name.

Then the Lord

will be zealous for His land

And will have pity on His people.

So the angel who was speaking with me said to me, “Proclaim, saying, ‘Thus says the Lord of hosts, “I am exceedingly jealous for Jerusalem and Zion.

“Thus says the Lord of hosts, ‘I am exceedingly jealous for Zion, yes, with great wrath I am jealous for her.’

Revengeth

‘Vengeance is Mine, and retribution,

In due time their foot will slip;

For the day of their calamity is near,

And the impending things are hastening upon them.’

O Lord, God of

vengeance,

God of vengeance,

shine forth!

He put on righteousness like a breastplate,
And a helmet of salvation on His head;
And He put on garments of vengeance for clothing
And wrapped Himself with zeal as a mantle.

Never take your own revenge, beloved, but leave room for the wrath of God, for it is written, “Vengeance is Mine, I will repay,” says the Lord.

for it is a minister of God to you for good. But if you do what is evil, be afraid; for it does not bear the sword for nothing; for it is a minister of God, an avenger who brings wrath on the one who practices evil.

For we know Him who said, “Vengeance is Mine, I will repay.” And again, “The Lord will judge His people.”

Is furious

then I will act with wrathful hostility against you, and I, even I, will punish you seven times for your sins.

“When he fills his belly,
God will send His fierce anger on him
And will rain it on him while he is eating.

Rouse yourself! Rouse yourself! Arise, O Jerusalem,

You who have drunk from the Lord’s hand the cup of His anger;
The chalice of reeling you have drained to the dregs.

According to their deeds, so He will repay,

Wrath to His adversaries, recompense to His enemies;
To the coastlands He will make recompense.

“I have trodden the wine trough alone,
And from the peoples there was no man with Me.
I also trod them in My anger
And trampled them in My wrath;
And their lifeblood is sprinkled on My garments,
And I stained all My raiment.

For behold, the Lord will come in fire
And His chariots like the whirlwind,
To render His anger with fury,
And His rebuke with flames of fire.

“Circumcise yourselves to the Lord
And remove the foreskins of your heart,
Men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem,
Or else My wrath will go forth like fire
And burn with none to quench it,
Because of the evil of your deeds.”

For thus the Lord, the God of Israel, says to me, “Take this cup of the wine of wrath from My hand and cause all the nations to whom I send you to drink it.

Perhaps their supplication will come before the Lord, and everyone will turn from his evil way, for great is the anger and the wrath that the Lord has pronounced against this people.”

The Lord has accomplished His wrath,
He has poured out His fierce anger;
And He has kindled a fire in Zion
Which has consumed its foundations.

‘Thus My anger will be spent and I will satisfy My wrath on them, and I will be

appeased; then they will know that I, the Lord, have spoken in My zeal when I have spent My wrath upon them.

He who is far off will die by the plague, and he who is near will fall by the sword, and he who remains and is besieged will die by the famine. Thus will I spend My wrath on them.

Therefore, I indeed will deal in wrath. My eye will have no pity nor will I spare; and though they cry in My ears with a loud voice, yet I will not listen to them.”

Therefore prophesy concerning the land of Israel and say to the mountains and to the hills, to the ravines and to the valleys, “Thus says the Lord God, ‘Behold, I have spoken in My jealousy and in My wrath because you have endured the insults of the nations.’

“And I will execute vengeance in anger and wrath
On the nations which have not obeyed.”

“Thus says the Lord of hosts, ‘I am exceedingly jealous for Zion, yes, with great wrath I am jealous for her.’

Reserveth

‘Is it not laid up in store with Me,
Sealed up in My treasuries?

‘Will He be angry forever?
Will He be indignant to the end?’
Behold, you have spoken
And have done evil things,
And you have had your way.”

Who is a God like You, who pardons iniquity
And passes over the rebellious act of the remnant of His possession?
He does not retain His anger forever,
Because He delights in unchanging love.

But because of your stubbornness and unrepentant heart you are storing up wrath for yourself in the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God,

then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from temptation, and to keep the unrighteous under punishment for the day of judgment,

General references

But these enemies of mine, who did not want me to reign over them, bring them here and slay them in my presence.”