Nahum 1:4

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“He rebukes the sea and dries it up; He makes all the rivers run dry. Bashan and Carmel wither, and the flower of Lebanon wilts.”

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BSBPD

“He rebukes the sea and dries it up; He makes all the rivers run dry. Bashan and Carmel wither, and the flower of Lebanon wilts.”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

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

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

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

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“He is pushing against a sea, and drieth it up, Yea, all the floods He hath made dry, Languishing <FI>are<Fi> Bashan and Carmel, Yea, the flower of Lebanon <FI>is<Fi> languishing.”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Nahum 1:4 — 17 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Joshua 3:13When the feet of the priests who carry the ark of the LORD—the Lord of all the earth—touch down in the waters of the Jordan, its flowing waters will be cut off and will stand up in a heap.”
  2. Job 38:11and I declared: ‘You may come this far, but no farther; here your proud waves must stop’?
  3. Psalms 18:16He reached down from on high and took hold of me; He drew me out of deep waters.
  4. Psalms 74:15You broke open the fountain and the flood; You dried up the ever-flowing rivers.
  5. Psalms 104:7At Your rebuke the waters fled; at the sound of Your thunder they hurried away—
  6. Psalms 106:9He rebuked the Red Sea, and it dried up; He led them through the depths as through a desert.
  7. Psalms 114:3The sea observed and fled; the Jordan turned back;
  8. Psalms 114:5Why was it, O sea, that you fled, O Jordan, that you turned back,
  9. Isaiah 19:5The waters of the Nile will dry up, and the riverbed will be parched and empty.
  10. Isaiah 33:9The land mourns and languishes; Lebanon is ashamed and decayed. Sharon is like a desert; Bashan and Carmel shake off their leaves.
  11. Isaiah 44:27who says to the depths of the sea, ‘Be dry, and I will dry up your currents,’
  12. Isaiah 50:2Why was no one there when I arrived? Why did no one answer when I called? Is My hand too short to redeem you? Or do I lack the strength to deliver you? Behold, My rebuke dries up the sea; I turn the rivers into a desert; the fish rot for lack of water and die of thirst.
  13. Isaiah 51:10Was it not You who dried up the sea, the waters of the great deep, who made a road in the depths of the sea for the redeemed to cross over?
  14. Ezekiel 30:12I will make the streams dry up and sell the land to the wicked. By the hands of foreigners I will bring desolation upon the land and everything in it. I, the LORD, have spoken.
  15. Amos 1:2He said: “The LORD roars from Zion and raises His voice from Jerusalem; the pastures of the shepherds mourn, and the summit of Carmel withers.”
  16. Amos 5:8He who made the Pleiades and Orion, who turns darkness into dawn and darkens day into night, who summons the waters of the sea and pours them over the face of the earth— the LORD is His name—
  17. Matthew 8:26“You of little faith,” Jesus replied, “why are you so afraid?” Then He got up and rebuked the winds and the sea, and it was perfectly calm.

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