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Nahum 1:4

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

Other translations

King James Version

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

World English Bible

He rebukes the sea and makes it dry, and dries up all the rivers. Bashan and Carmel languish. The flower of Lebanon languishes.

American Standard Version

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

Geneva Bible 1599

He rebuketh the sea, and dryeth it, and he dryeth vp all the riuers: Bashan is wasted and Carmel, and the floure of Lebanon is wasted.

Darby Translation

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

Young's Literal Translation

He is pushing against a sea, and drieth it up, Yea, all the floods He hath made dry, Languishing [are] Bashan and Carmel, Yea, the flower of Lebanon [is] languishing.

Bible in Basic English

He says sharp words to the sea and makes it dry, drying up all the rivers: Bashan is feeble, and Carmel, and the flower of Lebanon is without strength.

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Cross references

“rebuketh”

Psalm 106:9 Psalm 104:7 Psalm 114:3 Psalm 114:5 Isaiah 51:10 Amos 5:8

Psalm 106:9 · BSB

He rebuked the Red Sea, and it dried up; He led them through the depths as through a desert.

Psalm 104:7 · BSB

At Your rebuke the waters fled; at the sound of Your thunder they hurried away—

Psalm 114:3 · BSB

The sea observed and fled; the Jordan turned back;

Psalm 114:5 · BSB

Why was it, O sea, that you fled, O Jordan, that you turned back,

Isaiah 51:10 · BSB

Was 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?

Amos 5:8 · BSB

He 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—

“and drieth”

Joshua 3:13–15 Psalm 74:15 Isaiah 19:5–10 Isaiah 44:27 Ezekiel 30:12

Joshua 3:13–15 · BSB

When 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.”

Psalm 74:15 · BSB

You broke open the fountain and the flood; You dried up the ever-flowing rivers.

Isaiah 19:5–10 · BSB

The waters of the Nile will dry up, and the riverbed will be parched and empty.

Isaiah 44:27 · BSB

who says to the depths of the sea, ‘Be dry, and I will dry up your currents,’

Ezekiel 30:12 · BSB

I 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.

“Bashan”

Isaiah 33:9 Amos 1:2

Isaiah 33:9 · BSB

The land mourns and languishes; Lebanon is ashamed and decayed. Sharon is like a desert; Bashan and Carmel shake off their leaves.

Amos 1:2 · BSB

He said: “The LORD roars from Zion and raises His voice from Jerusalem; the pastures of the shepherds mourn, and the summit of Carmel withers.”

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

In context

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.

5The mountains quake before Him, and the hills melt away; the earth trembles at His presence— the world and all its dwellers.

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