Nahum 1:4

KJV1611 – Modern English

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

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Other Translations

  • Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

    He rebukes the sea and dries it up; he makes all the rivers run dry. Bashan and Carmel wither, and the blossoms of Lebanon fade.

  • King James Version 1769 (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.

  • American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

    He rebuketh{H1605} the sea,{H3220} and maketh it dry,{H2717} and drieth up{H3001} all the rivers:{H5104} Bashan{H1316} languisheth,{H535} and Carmel;{H3760} and the flower{H6525} of Lebanon{H3844} languisheth.{H535}

  • King James Version with Strong's Numbers

    He rebuketh{H1605}{(H8802)} the sea{H3220}, and maketh it dry{H2717}{(H8689)}, and drieth up{H3001}{(H8762)} all the rivers{H5104}: Bashan{H1316} languisheth{H535}{(H8797)}, and Carmel{H3760}, and the flower{H6525} of Lebanon{H3844} languisheth{H535}{(H8797)}.

  • Coverdale Bible (1535)

    Whe he reproueth the see, he dryeth it vp, & turneth all the floudes to drye londe. Basan is desolate, Charmel and the pleasure of Libanus waisteth awaye.

  • Geneva Bible (1560)

    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.

  • Bishops' Bible (1568)

    He rebuketh the sea and dryeth it vp, all the riuers also he maketh drye: Basan and Carmel are destroyed, the spring also of Libanon is destroyed.

  • Authorized King James Version (1611)

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

  • Webster's Bible (1833)

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

  • Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

    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.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    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 (1901)

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

  • Bible in Basic English (1941)

    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.

  • World English Bible (2000)

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

  • NET Bible® (New English Translation)

    He shouts a battle cry against the sea and makes it dry up; he makes all the rivers run dry. Bashan and Carmel wither; the blossom of Lebanon withers.

Referenced Verses

  • Isa 33:9 : 9 The earth mourns and languishes; Lebanon is ashamed and withered; Sharon is like a wilderness, and Bashan and Carmel shake off their fruits.
  • Ps 106:9 : 9 He rebuked the Red Sea also, and it was dried up; so he led them through the depths, as through the wilderness.
  • Matt 8:26 : 26 And he said to them, Why are you fearful, O you of little faith? Then he arose, and rebuked the winds and the sea; and there was a great calm.
  • Isa 44:27 : 27 Who says to the deep, Be dry, and I will dry up your rivers:
  • Isa 50:2-3 : 2 Why, when I came, was there no man? When I called, was there none to answer? Is my hand shortened at all, that it cannot redeem? Or have I no power to deliver? Behold, at my rebuke I dry up the sea, I make the rivers a wilderness: their fish stink because there is no water and die for thirst. 3 I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering.
  • Isa 51:10 : 10 Are you not the one who dried the sea, the waters of the great deep; who made the depths of the sea a way for the redeemed to pass over?
  • Ezek 30:12 : 12 I will make the rivers dry, and sell the land into the hand of the wicked: I will make the land waste, and all that is in it, by the hand of strangers: I the LORD have spoken it.
  • Amos 1:2 : 2 And he said, The LORD will roar from Zion, and utter His voice from Jerusalem, and the pastures of the shepherds shall mourn, and the top of Carmel shall wither.
  • Amos 5:8 : 8 Seek him that makes the seven stars and Orion, and turns the shadow of death into the morning, and makes the day dark with night; that calls for the waters of the sea and pours them out upon the face of the earth: The LORD is his name:
  • Ps 114:3 : 3 The sea saw it and fled; Jordan was driven back.
  • Ps 114:5 : 5 What troubled you, O sea, that you fled? O Jordan, that you were driven back?
  • Isa 19:5-9 : 5 The waters shall fail from the sea, and the river shall be wasted and dried up. 6 They shall turn the rivers away; the brooks of defense shall be emptied and dried up; the reeds and rushes shall wither. 7 The paper reeds by the brooks, by the mouth of the brooks, and everything sown by the brooks, shall wither, be driven away, and be no more. 8 The fishermen also shall mourn, and all who cast hooks into the brooks shall lament, and those who spread nets upon the waters shall languish. 9 Moreover, those who work in fine flax and those who weave networks shall be confounded. 10 They shall be broken in their purposes, all who make sluices and ponds for fish.
  • Josh 3:13-15 : 13 And it shall come to pass, as soon as the soles of the feet of the priests who bear the ark of the LORD, the Lord of all the earth, shall rest in the waters of the Jordan, that the waters of the Jordan shall be cut off, the waters that come down from above; and they shall stand in a heap. 14 And it came to pass, when the people moved from their tents, to cross over the Jordan, and the priests bearing the ark of the covenant before the people; 15 And as those who bore the ark came to the Jordan, and the feet of the priests who bore the ark were dipped in the edge of the water (for the Jordan overflows all its banks during the time of harvest),
  • Job 38:11 : 11 And said, This far you shall come, but no further; and here shall your proud waves be stopped?
  • Ps 74:15 : 15 You cleaved open the fountain and the flood: You dried up mighty rivers.
  • Ps 104:7 : 7 At Your rebuke they fled; at the voice of Your thunder they hurried away.

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