Nahum 1:4 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁴ He rebukes the sea and makes it dry, and he dries up all the rivers; Bashan and Carmel wither, and the bloom of Lebanon fades.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁴ He rebuketh the sea, and maketh it dry, and drieth up all the rivers: Bashan languisheth, and Carmel, and the flower of Lebanon languisheth.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁴ He rebukes and threatens the sea and makes it dry, and dries up all the rivers. Bashan [on the east] and Mount Carmel [on the west] wither, and [in the north] the blossom of Lebanon fades.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁴ He rebuketh the sea, and maketh it dry, and drieth up all the rivers: Bashan languisheth, and Carmel; and the flower of Lebanon languisheth.

Common English Bible

⁴ He can blast the sea and make it dry up; he can dry up all the rivers. Bashan and Carmel wither; the bud of Lebanon withers.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁴ He is the one who rebukes the sea, and who dries it up, and who leads all the rivers to the desert. Basan has been weakened, and also Carmel, and the flower of Lebanon has languished.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁴ He rebuketh the sea, and drieth it up: and bringeth all the rivers to be a desert. Basan languisheth and Carmel: and the dower of Libanus fadeth away.

Nahum 1:4 Cross References

Genesis 8:1

But God remembered Noah and all the wild animals and all the domestic animals that were with him in the ark. And God made a wind blow over the earth, and the waters subsided;

2 Samuel 22:16

Then the channels of the sea were seen; the foundations of the world were laid bare at the rebuke of the Lord, at the blast of the breath of his nostrils.

Job 38:11

and said, ‘Thus far shall you come and no farther, and here shall your proud waves be stopped’?

Psalm 104:7

At your rebuke they flee; at the sound of your thunder they take to flight.

Psalm 106:9

He rebuked the Red Sea, and it became dry; he led them through the deep as through a desert.

Psalm 114:3

The sea looked and fled; Jordan turned back.

Psalm 114:5

Why is it, O sea, that you flee? O Jordan, that you turn back?

Psalm 18:16

He reached down from on high; he took me; he drew me out of mighty waters.

Psalm 74:15

You cut openings for springs and torrents; you dried up ever-flowing streams.

Isaiah 33:9

The land mourns and languishes; Lebanon is confounded and withers away; Sharon is like a desert, and Bashan and Carmel shake off their leaves.

Isaiah 42:15

I will lay waste mountains and hills and dry up all their herbage; I will turn the rivers into islands and dry up the pools.

Isaiah 44:27

who says to the deep, “Be dry— I will dry up your rivers”;

Isaiah 51:10

Was it not you who dried up the sea, the waters of the great deep; who made the depths of the sea a way for the redeemed to cross over?

Ezekiel 30:12

I will dry up the channels of the Nile and will sell the land into the hand of evildoers; I will bring desolation upon the land and everything in it by the hand of foreigners; I the Lord have spoken.

Ezekiel 38:20

the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and the animals of the field and all creeping things that creep on the ground and all humans who are on the face of the earth shall quake at my presence, and the mountains shall be thrown down, and the cliffs shall fall, and every wall shall tumble to the ground.

Amos 1:2

And he said: The Lord roars from Zion and utters his voice from Jerusalem; the pastures of the shepherds wither, and the top of Carmel dries up.

Amos 5:8

The one who made the Pleiades and Orion and turns deep darkness into the morning and darkens the day into night, who calls for the water of the sea and pours it out on the surface of the earth, the Lord is his name,

Matthew 8:26

And he said to them, “Why are you afraid, you of little faith?” Then he got up and rebuked the winds and the sea, and there was a dead calm.

Joshua 3:16

the waters flowing from above stood still, rising up in a single heap far off at Adam, the city that is beside Zarethan, while those flowing toward the sea of the Arabah, the Dead Sea, were wholly cut off. Then the people crossed over opposite Jericho.