Nahum 1:2 “The LORD is a jealous and avenging God; the LORD is avenging and full…”

Nahum 1:2

The LORD is a jealous and avenging God; the LORD is avenging and full of wrath. The LORD takes vengeance on His foes and reserves wrath for His enemies.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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.

World English Bible

The LORD is a jealous God and avenges. The LORD avenges and is full of wrath. The LORD takes vengeance on his adversaries, and he maintains wrath against his enemies.

American Standard Version

Jehovah is a jealous God and avengeth; Jehovah avengeth and is full of wrath; Jehovah taketh vengeance on his adversaries, and he reserveth wrath for his enemies.

Geneva Bible 1599

God is ielous, and the Lord reuengeth: the Lord reuengeth: euen the Lord of anger, the Lord will take vengeance on his aduersaries, and he reserueth wrath for his enemies.

Darby Translation

A jealous and avenging God is Jehovah: an avenger is Jehovah, and full of fury: Jehovah taketh vengeance on his adversaries, and he reserveth [wrath] for his enemies.

Young's Literal Translation

A God zealous and avenging [is] Jehovah, An avenger [is] Jehovah, and possessing fury. An avenger [is] Jehovah on His adversaries, And He is watching for His enemies.

Bible in Basic English

The Lord is a God who takes care of his honour and gives punishment for wrong; the Lord gives punishment and is angry; the Lord sends punishment on those who are against him, being angry with his haters.

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Cross references

“God is jealous, and the Lord revengeth”

Exodus 20:5 Zechariah 8:2 Exodus 34:14 Deuteronomy 4:24 Joshua 24:19 Isaiah 42:13

Exodus 20:5 · BSB

You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on their children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me,

Zechariah 8:2 · BSB

This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “I am jealous for Zion with great zeal; I am jealous for her with great fervor.”

Exodus 34:14 · BSB

For you must not worship any other god, for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God.

Deuteronomy 4:24 · BSB

For the LORD your God is a consuming fire, a jealous God.

Joshua 24:19 · BSB

But Joshua said to the people, “You are not able to serve the LORD, for He is a holy God; He is a jealous God; He will not forgive your rebellion or your sins.

Isaiah 42:13 · BSB

The LORD goes forth like a mighty one; He stirs up His zeal like a warrior. He shouts; yes, He roars in triumph over His enemies:

“revengeth”

Psalm 94:1 Hebrews 10:30 Romans 12:19 Romans 13:4 Deuteronomy 32:35 Deuteronomy 32:42

Psalm 94:1 · BSB

O LORD, God of vengeance, O God of vengeance, shine forth.

Hebrews 10:30 · BSB

For we know Him who said, “Vengeance is Mine; I will repay,” and again, “The Lord will judge His people.”

Romans 12:19 · BSB

Do not avenge yourselves, beloved, but leave room for God’s wrath. For it is written: “Vengeance is Mine; I will repay, says the Lord.”

Romans 13:4 · BSB

For he is God’s servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for he does not carry the sword in vain. He is God’s servant, an agent of retribution to the wrongdoer.

Deuteronomy 32:35 · BSB

Vengeance is Mine; I will repay. In due time their foot will slip; for their day of disaster is near, and their doom is coming quickly.”

Deuteronomy 32:42 · BSB

I will make My arrows drunk with blood, while My sword devours flesh— the blood of the slain and captives, the heads of the enemy leaders.”

“is furious”

Leviticus 26:28 Job 20:23 Isaiah 51:17 Isaiah 51:20 Jeremiah 4:4 Ezekiel 6:12

Leviticus 26:28 · BSB

then I will walk in fury against you, and I, even I, will punish you sevenfold for your sins.

Job 20:23 · BSB

When he has filled his stomach, God will vent His fury upon him, raining it down on him as he eats.

Isaiah 51:17 · BSB

Awake, awake! Rise up, O Jerusalem, you who have drunk from the hand of the LORD the cup of His fury; you who have drained the goblet to the dregs— the cup that makes men stagger.

Isaiah 51:20 · BSB

Your sons have fainted; they lie at the head of every street, like an antelope in a net. They are full of the wrath of the LORD, the rebuke of your God.

Jeremiah 4:4 · BSB

Circumcise yourselves to the LORD, and remove the foreskins of your hearts, O men of Judah and people of Jerusalem. Otherwise, My wrath will break out like fire and burn with no one to extinguish it, because of your evil…

Ezekiel 6:12 · BSB

He who is far off will die by the plague, he who is near will fall by the sword, and he who remains will die by famine. So I will vent My fury upon them.

“reserveth”

Deuteronomy 32:41–43 2 Peter 2:9 Jeremiah 3:5 Micah 7:18 Deuteronomy 32:34 Romans 2:5

Deuteronomy 32:41–43 · BSB

when I sharpen My flashing sword, and My hand grasps it in judgment, I will take vengeance on My adversaries and repay those who hate Me.

2 Peter 2:9 · BSB

if all this is so, then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials and to hold the unrighteous for punishment on the day of judgment.

Jeremiah 3:5 · BSB

Will He be angry forever? Will He be indignant to the end?’ This you have spoken, but you keep doing all the evil you can.”

Micah 7:18 · BSB

Who is a God like You, who pardons iniquity and passes over the transgression of the remnant of His inheritance— who does not retain His anger forever, because He delights in loving devotion?

Deuteronomy 32:34 · BSB

“Have I not stored up these things, sealed up within My vaults?

Romans 2:5 · BSB

But because of your hard and unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath against yourself for the day of wrath, when God’s righteous judgment will be revealed.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

1This is the burden against Nineveh, the book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite:

3The LORD is slow to anger and great in power; the LORD will by no means leave the guilty unpunished. His path is in the whirlwind and storm, and clouds are the dust beneath His feet.

Read Nahum 1