Quotes about Nahum
This is the burden against Nineveh, the book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite:
- Nahum 1:1
From you, O Nineveh, comes forth a plotter of evil against the LORD, a counselor of wickedness.
- Nahum 1:11
The lion mauled enough for its cubs and strangled prey for the lioness. It filled its dens with the kill, and its lairs with mauled prey.
- Nahum 2:12
Are you better than Thebes, stationed by the Nile with water around her, whose rampart was the sea, whose wall was the water?
- Nahum 3:8
Cush and Egypt were her boundless strength; Put and Libya were her allies.
- Nahum 3:9
Yet she became an exile; she went into captivity. Her infants were dashed to pieces at the head of every street. They cast lots for her dignitaries, and all her nobles were bound in chains.
- Nahum 3:10
You too will become drunk; you will go into hiding and seek refuge from the enemy.
- Nahum 3:11
All your fortresses are fig trees with the first ripe figs; when shaken, they fall into the mouth of the eater!
- Nahum 3:12
Look at your troops—they are like your women! The gates of your land are wide open to your enemies; fire consumes their bars.
- Nahum 3:13
God is jealous, and the Lord avenges; The Lord avenges and is furious. The Lord will take vengeance on His adversaries, And He reserves wrath for His enemies. (NAHUM 1:2)
- John Hagee