Nahum 2:13

Modern English Version

I am against you, says the Lord of Hosts, and I will burn your chariots in smoke, and the sword will devour your lions. I will cut off your prey from the earth, and the voice of your messengers will be heard no more.

Cross References

2 Kings 18:17

Then the king of Assyria sent the Tartan, the Rabsaris, and the Rabshakeh from Lachish to King Hezekiah with a great army against Jerusalem. So they went up and came to Jerusalem. When they went up, they came and stood by the conduit of the upper pool, which is on the highway of the Fuller’s Field.

2 Kings 18:19

Then the Rabshakeh said to them, “Speak to Hezekiah: “Thus says the great king, the king of Assyria: What is the basis of your confidence?

2 Kings 19:23

By your messengers you have taunted the Lord, and have said, ‘With my many chariots I have gone up the height of the mountains, to farthest reaches of Lebanon, and I will cut down its tallest cedars, its choicest junipers. I will enter its most remote canopies of night, its dense forest.

2 Kings 19:9

When the king heard concerning Tirhakah king of Cush, “Behold, he has come out to fight against you,” he sent messengers to Hezekiah, saying,

2 Chronicles 32:19

They spoke about the God of Jerusalem like the gods of the other peoples of the earth, which are only objects made by men’s hands.

Psalm 46:9

He makes wars cease to the end of the earth; He breaks the bow and shatters the spear; He burns the chariot in the fire.

Jeremiah 21:13

Behold, I am against you, O inhabitant of the valley, O rocky plain, says the Lord, you men who say, “Who shall come down against us? Or who shall enter our dwellings?”

Jeremiah 46:14

Declare in Egypt and proclaim in Migdol, and pronounce in Memphis and in Tahpanhes; say, “Stand fast and prepare yourself, for the sword will devour those about you.”

Jeremiah 50:31

Behold, I am against you, O most proud, says the Lord God of Hosts, for your day has come, the time when I will punish you.

Jeremiah 51:25

Behold, I am against you, O destroying mountain, says the Lord, who destroys all the earth. And I will stretch out My hand against you, and roll you down from the rocks, and will make you a burned mountain.

Ezekiel 13:8

Therefore thus says the Lord God: Because you have spoken vanity and seen lies, therefore I am against you, says the Lord God.

Ezekiel 21:3

and say to the land of Israel, Thus says the Lord: Behold, I am against you, and will draw My sword from its sheath, and will cut off from you the righteous and the wicked.

Ezekiel 26:3

therefore thus says the Lord God: Behold, I am against you, O Tyre, and will cause many nations to come up against you, as the sea causes its waves to come up.

Ezekiel 28:22

and say, Thus says the Lord God: Behold, I am against you, O Sidon; and I will be glorified in your midst; and they shall know that I am the Lord, when I execute judgments in her and display My holiness in her.

Ezekiel 29:10

therefore, behold, I am against you and against your rivers, and I will make the land of Egypt an utter waste and desolation, from Migdol to Syene, as far as the border of Cush.

Ezekiel 29:3

Speak, and say, Thus says the Lord God: Behold, I am against you, Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great dragon that lies in the midst of his rivers, which has said, “My Nile is my own, and I myself have made it.”

Ezekiel 35:3

and say to it, Thus says the Lord God: Behold, I am against you, O Mount Seir, and I will stretch out My hand against you, and I will make you a desolation and a waste.

Ezekiel 38:3

and say: Thus says the Lord God: Behold, I am against you, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal.

Ezekiel 39:1

Moreover you, son of man, prophesy against Gog and say: Thus says the Lord God: Behold, I am against you, O Gog, chief prince of Meshech, and Tubal.

Ezekiel 5:8

therefore thus says the Lord God: Behold, I, even I, am against you and will execute judgments in your midst in the sight of the nations.

Nahum 2:12

The lion tore enough food for his cubs, and strangled prey for his lionesses; he has filled his caves with prey, and his dens with flesh.

Nahum 3:1

Woe to the bloody city! It is full of lies and plunder. The prey never departs.

Nahum 3:12

All your fortresses are like fig trees with first-ripe figs: If they are shaken, they fall into the mouth of the eater.

Nahum 3:15

There the fire will devour you, the sword will cut you off; it will eat you up like the locust. Multiply yourselves—like the locust! Multiply—like the grasshopper!

Nahum 3:5

I am against you, says the Lord of Hosts; I will lift your skirts over your face, and I will show the nations your nakedness, and the kingdoms your shame.

Joshua 11:6

The Lord said to Joshua, “Do not be afraid of them, for about this time tomorrow I will make them dead before Israel. Hamstring their horses and burn their chariots with fire.”

Joshua 11:9

Joshua did to them as the Lord had said. He hamstrung their horses and burned their chariots with fire.