Parallel Verses
The Emphasized Bible
What can ye devise against Yahweh? A full end, is he making, - Distress, shall not rise up twice:
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.
American Standard Version
What do ye devise against Jehovah? 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.
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 overflow rolling on, a full end, will he make of them who rise up against him, - and, his foes, will he pursue into darkness. 9 What can ye devise against Yahweh? A full end, is he making, - Distress, shall not rise up twice: 10 Though they were like thorns intertwined, and as drunkards drenched with their drink, yet have they been devoured, like stubble fully dry.
Phrases
Cross References
Psalm 2:1-4
Wherefore have nations assembled in tumult? Or should, peoples, mutter an empty thing?
Psalm 21:11
For they have held out, against thee, a wicked thing, They have devised a scheme they cannot accomplish.
Psalm 33:10
Yahweh, hath frustrated the counsel of nations, hath brought to nothing the devices of peoples.
Proverbs 21:30
There is no wisdom, nor understanding, nor counsel, to confront Yahweh.
Isaiah 8:9-10
Rage, O ye peoples, - and be overthrown, And give ear, all ye distant parts of the earth, - Gird yourselves and be overthrown, Gird yourselves, and be overthrown:
Ezekiel 38:10-11
Thus saith My Lord, Yahweh, - So shall it be in that day, that thoughts will come p on thy heart.- And thou wt devise a wicked device;
Nahum 1:11
Out of thee, hath one come forth - plotting, against Yahweh, wickedness, - A counselor of the Abandoned One.
Acts 4:25-28
Who, by our father, through means of the Holy Spirit, even by the mouth of David thy servant, said - Unto what end did nations rage, and, peoples, busy themselves with empty things?
2 Corinthians 10:5
When we pull down, calculations, and every height that uplifteth itself against the knowledge of God, and when we bring into captivity every thought unto the obedience of the Christ,
1 Samuel 3:12
In that day, will I confirm against Eli, all that I have spoken against his house, - beginning and finishing.
1 Samuel 26:8
Then said Abishai unto David, God hath surrendered, to-day, thine enemy, into thy hand: Now, therefore, let me smite him, I pray thee, with the spear to the earth, at one stroke, I, will not do it twice.
2 Samuel 20:10
Amasa not heeding the sword that was in the hand of Joab, he smote him therewith in the belly, and shed out his bowels to the ground, and struck him not again, and he died. So, Joab and Abishai his brother, pursued Sheba son of Bichri.