Verse Lens · Concise explanation
Nahum 1:9 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 9. 9What do ye imagine against the LORD? he will make an utter end: affliction shall not rise up the second time.
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Quick Meaning
Challenges the addressees' plots against the LORD and announces a complete end so this affliction does not need a second campaign.
Read It With
- Nahum 1:9-11
Read Nahum 1:9 with 1:9-11. Challenges the addressees' plots against the LORD and announces a complete end so this affliction does not need a second campaign. The complete unit establishes this movement: The oracle ridicules resistance to the LORD: tangled strength, intoxicated confidence, and a counselor's destructive plot end in complete consumption rather than a second campaign of affliction.
What Remains True
Imperial plotting cannot make oppression permanently secure.
How It Can Shape Life
- Judge plans by justice as well as effectiveness and avoid turning one victory into a universal suffering promise.
Continue in Context
The full thought-unit study remains the final contextual authority for this Verse Lens.
Read Nahum 1:9-11 — Plots against the LORD End Like Dry StubbleSources used for this Verse Lens
How certain is this explanation? probable
Where care is needed
The opening interrogative can be translated what, why, or whatever, and the addressee is supplied from context.
These are the sources used directly for this lens. Language, grammar, disagreements, and the complete source shelf remain attached to the full thought-unit research record.
Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
eBible.org and CrossWire Bible Society
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Supports: Exact reader-facing Scripture wording, paragraph markers, supplied-word markup, and complete verse coverage.
Exact location: Nahum 1:9-11, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: Nahum
Open Scriptures
Open Scriptures, release 2.2
Supports: Masoretic Hebrew words, morphology, clause relationships, repeated roots, names, and the base wording behind translation discussion.
Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v.2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/Nah.xml, 1:9-11
Open source ↗translation and translator notes
NET Bible: Nahum with translators' notes
Biblical Studies Press
Biblical Studies Press, 2006
Supports: Verse-level translation, syntax, text-critical, poetic, historical, and uncertainty notes.
Exact location: NET Bible Nahum PDF, printed pp. 1755-1756, translation and notes on 1:9-11
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