Nahum 1:4

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Summary

He rebuketh the sea, and maketh it dry, and drieth up all the rivers: Bashan languisheth, and Carmel, and the flower of Lebanon languisheth.

Rebuketh

And drieth

Ezekiel 30:12

Bashan

Isaiah 33:9

Amos 1:2

General references

Psalm 89:9

Isaiah 42:15

Jeremiah 23:19

Bible References

Rebuketh

And saying, Even to this shalt thou come, and thou shalt not add: and here in the pride of thy waves, stand thou.

From thy rebuke they shall flee; from the voice of thy thunder they shall be terrified.

And he will rebuke in the sea of sedge, and it will be dried up: and he will lead them in the depths as the desert

The sea saw and it will flee: Jordan will turn away back

Wherefore, I came, and no man? I called and none answered. Being short, was my hand shortened from redeeming? and if not power in me to deliver behold, in my rebuke I will dry up the sea; I will set the rivers a desert: their fish shall stink from no water, and they shall die with thirst

Was it not with him desolating the sea, the water of the great deep? setting the depths of the sea a way for the redeemed to pass over?

He made the seven stars and Orion, and he turned the shadow of death to the morning, and he darkened the day to night: calling to the water of the sea, and he will pour them out upon the face of the earth: Jehovah his name:

And he says to them, Why are ye timorous, ye of little faith? Then having risen, he censured the winds and sea; and there was a great calm.

And drieth

And it was as the soles of the feet of the priests lifting up the ark of Jehovah, the Lord of all the earth, rested in the water of Jordan, the water of Jordan shall be cut off from the waters coming down from above; and they shall stand one heap.

Thou didst cleave asunder the fountain and the torrent: thou driedst up the rivers of strength.

And the water failed from the sea, and the river will waste and dry up.

Saying to the depth, Be thou dry, and I will dry up thy rivers.

And I gave the rivers dryness and I sold the land, into the hand of the evil: and I made the land desolate, and its fulness by the hand, of strangers: I Jehovah spake.

Bashan

The earth mourning, languished: Lebanon being ashamed, pined away: Sharon was as a sterile region, and Bashan was shaken, and Carmel.

And he will say, Jehovah will cry out from Zion, and from Jerusalem he will give his voice; and the habitations of the shepherds mourned, and the head of Carmel was dried up.

General references

Thou ruling over the lifting up of the sea: in the lifting up of its waves thou wilt soothe them.

I will lay waste mountains and hills, and I will dry up all their green herbage; and I set the rivers for islands, and I will dry up the pools.

Behold, the storm of Jehovah went forth with wrath, a piercing storm; it shall be hurled upon the head of the evil ones.