Parallel Verses
Julia Smith Translation
What will ye purpose against Jehovah? he made a completion: straits 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.
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
Chashab
Kalah
Tsarah
Word Count of 20 Translations in Nahum 1:9
Verse Info
Context Readings
Destruction Of Nineveh
8 With an inundation passing through he will make a completion of her place, and darkness shall pursue his enemies. 9 What will ye purpose against Jehovah? he made a completion: straits shall not rise up twice. 10 For even to thorns surrounding them, and drinking to excess as drunkards, they shall be devoured as straw fully dried up.
Phrases
Cross References
Psalm 2:1-4
Wherefore did the nations rage, and the peoples will meditate emptiness?
Psalm 21:11
For they stretched out evil upon thee: they purposed a device, they will not prevail.
Psalm 33:10
Jehovah made vain the counsel of the nations: he brought the purposes of the peoples to nought
Proverbs 21:30
No wisdom and no understanding, and no counsel against Jehovah.
Isaiah 8:9-10
Make friendship, ye peoples, and be broken in pieces; and give ear, every land from afar; be girded and be broken in pieces; be girded and be broken in pieces.
Ezekiel 38:10-11
Thus said the Lord Jehovah and it was in that day words will come up upon thy heart, and thou purposed an evil purpose:
Nahum 1:11
From thee shall he come forth purposing evil against Jehovah, a counselor of Belial.
Acts 4:25-28
Having said by the mouth of David thy servant, That why were the nations insolent, and did the people practise vain things
2 Corinthians 10:5
Taking down reckonings, and every elevation lifted up against the knowledge of God, and taking captive every thought to the obedience of Christ;
1 Samuel 3:12
In that day I will set up all against Eli which I spake against his house, beginning and finishing.
1 Samuel 26:8
And Abishai will say to David, God shut up this day thine enemy in thy hand: and now, I will strike him now with the spear, and into the earth once, and I will not repeat to him.
2 Samuel 20:10
And Amasa watched not upon the sword which was in Joab's hand: and he will strike him with it into the belly, and his bowels will be poured forth to the earth; and he repeated not to him; and he will die. And Joab and Abishai his brother pursued after Sheba son of Bichri.