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Nahum 1:6

Who can stand before his indignation? and who can abide in the fierceness of his anger? his fury is poured out like fire, and the rocks are thrown down by him.

KJV

Ante faciem indignationis ejus quis stabit ? et quis resistet in ira furoris ejus ? Indignatio ejus effusa est ut ignis, et petræ dissolutæ sunt ab eo.

Vulgate

ἀπὸ προσώπου ὀργῆς αὐτοῦ τίς ὑποστήσεται; καὶ τίς ἀντιστήσεται ἐν ὀργῇ θυμοῦ αὐτοῦ; ὁ θυμὸς αὐτοῦ τήκει ἀρχάς, καὶ αἱ πέτραι διεθρύβησαν ἀπ’ αὐτοῦ.

LXX

Who can stand before his indignation? and who can abide in the fierceness of his anger? his wrath is poured out like fire, and the rocks are broken asunder by him.

ASV

לִ/פְנֵ֤י זַעְמ/וֹ֙ מִ֣י יַֽעֲמ֔וֹד וּ/מִ֥י יָק֖וּם בַּ/חֲר֣וֹן אַפּ֑/וֹ חֲמָת/וֹ֙ נִתְּכָ֣ה כָ/אֵ֔שׁ וְ/הַ/צֻּרִ֖ים נִתְּצ֥וּ מִמֶּֽ/נּוּ

Hebrew

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In the original Hebrew

13 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

אֵ֖שׁ
'sh
noun · 376×
הוּ
hv
verb · 42×
וֹ
v
noun · 275×
זַ֔עַם
z'm
noun · 21×
חֲר֥וֹן
chrvn
noun · 41×
י
y
noun · 124×
יָּ֣קָם
yqm
verb · 626×
מִ֣י
my
particle · 420×
מִן
mn
preposition · 1223×
עֹמְדִ֖ים
'mdym
verb · 526×
פְנֵ֣י
pny
noun · 2111×
צ֥וּר
tsvr
noun · 75×
תִתַּ֧ךְ
ttk
verb · 21×

Themes

Theophany

Historic Christian voices

4 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

There is no want of power in God to cast wicked men into hell at any moment. The strongest have no power to resist Him, nor can any deliver out of His hands. He is not only able to cast wicked men into hell, but He can most easily do it. The God that holds you over the pit of hell, much as one holds a spider or some loathsome insect over the fire, abhors you, and is dreadfully …
Q. Why must the mediator also be true God? A. So that, by the power of his divinity, he might bear the weight of God's anger in his humanity and earn for us and restore to us righteousness and life.

Cross-references

  • 2Chr 34:25 — Because they have forsaken me, and have burned incense unto other gods, that they might provoke me to anger with all the works of their hands; therefore my wrath shall be poured out upon this place, a
  • 2Cor 5:11 — Knowing therefore the terror of the Lord, we persuade men; but we are made manifest unto God; and I trust also are made manifest in your consciences.
  • Deut 4:24 — For the LORD thy God is a consuming fire, even a jealous God.
  • Deut 32:22 — For a fire is kindled in mine anger, and shall burn unto the lowest hell, and shall consume the earth with her increase, and set on fire the foundations of the mountains.
  • Deut 32:35 — To me belongeth vengeance, and recompence; their foot shall slide in due time: for the day of their calamity is at hand, and the things that shall come upon them make haste.
  • Exod 34:7 — Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children’s c
  • Ezek 7:8 — Now will I shortly pour out my fury upon thee, and accomplish mine anger upon thee: and I will judge thee according to thy ways, and will recompense thee for all thine abominations.
  • Ezek 21:31 — And I will pour out mine indignation upon thee, I will blow against thee in the fire of my wrath, and deliver thee into the hand of brutish men, and skilful to destroy.
  • Ezek 29:3 — Speak, and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great dragon that lieth in the midst of his rivers, which hath said, My river is mine own, and I have mad
  • Ezek 39:6 — And I will send a fire on Magog, and among them that dwell carelessly in the isles: and they shall know that I am the LORD.
  • Isa 13:7 — Therefore shall all hands be faint, and every man’s heart shall melt:
  • Isa 13:9 — Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate: and he shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it.
  • Isa 33:14 — The sinners in Zion are afraid; fearfulness hath surprised the hypocrites. Who among us shall dwell with the devouring fire? who among us shall dwell with everlasting burnings?
  • Isa 42:25 — Therefore he hath poured upon him the fury of his anger, and the strength of battle: and it hath set him on fire round about, yet he knew not; and it burned him, yet he laid it not to heart.
  • Jer 7:20 — Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, mine anger and my fury shall be poured out upon this place, upon man, and upon beast, and upon the trees of the field, and upon the fruit of the ground; and
  • Jer 10:10 — But the LORD is the true God, he is the living God, and an everlasting king: at his wrath the earth shall tremble, and the nations shall not be able to abide his indignation.
  • Jer 10:10 — But the LORD is the true God, he is the living God, and an everlasting king: at his wrath the earth shall tremble, and the nations shall not be able to abide his indignation.
  • Jer 21:12 — O house of David, thus saith the LORD; Execute judgment in the morning, and deliver him that is spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor, lest my fury go out like fire, and burn that none can quench i
  • Job 40:11 — Cast abroad the rage of thy wrath: and behold every one that is proud, and abase him.
  • Joel 2:11 — And the LORD shall utter his voice before his army: for his camp is very great: for he is strong that executeth his word: for the day of the LORD is great and very terrible; and who can abide it?
  • Lam 1:13 — From above hath he sent fire into my bones, and it prevaileth against them: he hath spread a net for my feet, he hath turned me back: he hath made me desolate and faint all the day.
  • Lam 2:4 — He hath bent his bow like an enemy: he stood with his right hand as an adversary, and slew all that were pleasant to the eye in the tabernacle of the daughter of Zion: he poured out his fury like fire
  • Mal 3:2 — But who may abide the day of his coming? and who shall stand when he appeareth? for he is like a refiner’s fire, and like fullers’ soap:
  • Nah 1:2 — God is jealous, and the LORD revengeth; the LORD revengeth, and is furious; the LORD will take vengeance on his adversaries, and he reserveth wrath for his enemies.
  • Ps 7:11 — God judgeth the righteous, and God is angry with the wicked every day.
  • Ps 21:9 — Thou shalt make them as a fiery oven in the time of thine anger: the LORD shall swallow them up in his wrath, and the fire shall devour them.
  • Ps 47:2 — For the LORD most high is terrible; he is a great King over all the earth.
  • Ps 76:7 — Thou, even thou, art to be feared: and who may stand in thy sight when once thou art angry?
  • Ps 76:7 — Thou, even thou, art to be feared: and who may stand in thy sight when once thou art angry?
  • Ps 90:11 — Who knoweth the power of thine anger? even according to thy fear, so is thy wrath.
  • Ps 130:3 — If thou, LORD, shouldest mark iniquities, O Lord, who shall stand?
  • Zeph 2:2 — Before the decree bring forth, before the day pass as the chaff, before the fierce anger of the LORD come upon you, before the day of the LORD’s anger come upon you.