Nahum 1:4

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

when I said, 'To here you may come and no farther, here your proud waves will be confined'?

Your shout made the waters retreat; at the sound of your thunderous voice they hurried off --

He shouted at the Red Sea and it dried up; he led them through the deep water as if it were a desert.

The sea looked and fled; the Jordan River turned back.

Why does no one challenge me when I come? Why does no one respond when I call? Is my hand too weak to deliver you? Do I lack the power to rescue you? Look, with a mere shout I can dry up the sea; I can turn streams into a desert, so the fish rot away and die from lack of water.

Did you not dry up the sea, the waters of the great deep? Did you not make a path through the depths of the sea, so those delivered from bondage could cross over?

(But there is one who made the constellations Pleiades and Orion; he can turn the darkness into morning and daylight into night. He summons the water of the seas and pours it out on the earth's surface. The Lord is his name!

But he said to them, "Why are you cowardly, you people of little faith?" Then he got up and rebuked the winds and the sea, and it was dead calm.

And drieth

When the feet of the priests carrying the ark of the Lord, the Ruler of the whole earth, touch the water of the Jordan, the water coming downstream toward you will stop flowing and pile up."

You broke open the spring and the stream; you dried up perpetually flowing rivers.

The water of the sea will be dried up, and the river will dry up and be empty.

who says to the deep sea, 'Be dry! I will dry up your sea currents,'

I will dry up the waterways and hand the land over to evil men. I will make the land and everything in it desolate by the hand of foreigners. I, the Lord, have spoken!

Bashan

The land dries up and withers away; the forest of Lebanon shrivels up and decays. Sharon is like the desert; Bashan and Carmel are parched.

Amos said: "The Lord comes roaring out of Zion; from Jerusalem he comes bellowing! The shepherds' pastures wilt; the summit of Carmel withers."

General references

You rule over the proud sea. When its waves surge, you calm them.

I will make the trees on the mountains and hills wither up; I will dry up all their vegetation. I will turn streams into islands, and dry up pools of water.

But just watch! The wrath of the Lord will come like a storm! Like a raging storm it will rage down on the heads of those who are wicked.