Nahum 1:6

New American Bible - revised edition

Before his wrath, who can stand firm, and who can face his blazing anger? His fury is poured out like fire, and boulders break apart before him.

Cross References

Jeremiah 10:10

The Lord is truly God, he is the living God, the eternal King, Before whose anger the earth quakes, whose wrath the nations cannot endure.

Malachi 3:2

But who can endure the day of his coming? Who can stand firm when he appears? For he will be like a refiner’s fire, like fullers’ lye.

Nahum 1:2

A jealous and avenging God is the Lord, an avenger is the Lord, full of wrath; The Lord takes vengeance on his adversaries, and rages against his enemies;

Psalm 76:7

At your roar, O God of Jacob, chariot and steed lay still.

Ezekiel 30:16

I will set fire to Egypt; Pelusium will writhe in anguish, Thebes will be breached, and Memphis besieged in daylight.

Lamentations 4:11

The Lord has exhausted his anger, poured out his blazing wrath; He has kindled a fire in Zion that has consumed her foundations.

Lamentations 2:4

He bent his bow like an enemy; the arrow in his right hand Like a foe, he killed all those held precious; On the tent of daughter Zion he poured out his wrath like fire.

Isaiah 27:4

I am not angry. But if I were to find briers and thorns, In battle I would march against it; I would burn it all.

Isaiah 10:16

Therefore the Lord, the Lord of hosts, will send leanness among his fat ones, And under his glory there will be a kindling like the kindling of fire.

Psalm 90:11

Who comprehends the strength of your anger? Your wrath matches the fear it inspires.

1 Kings 19:11

Then the Lord said: Go out and stand on the mountain before the Lord; the Lord will pass by. There was a strong and violent wind rending the mountains and crushing rocks before the Lord—but the Lord was not in the wind; after the wind, an earthquake—but the Lord was not in the earthquake;

Revelation 16:8

The fourth angel poured out his bowl on the sun. It was given the power to burn people with fire.

Revelation 16:1

I heard a loud voice speaking from the temple to the seven angels, “Go and pour out the seven bowls of God’s fury upon the earth.”

Revelation 6:17

because the great day of their wrath has come and who can withstand it?”

Job 40:11

Let loose the fury of your wrath; look at everyone who is proud and bring them down.

Psalm 130:3

If you, Lord, keep account of sins, Lord, who can stand?

Isaiah 13:13

For this I will make the heavens tremble and the earth shall be shaken from its place, At the wrath of the Lord of hosts on the day of his burning anger.

Isaiah 66:15

For see, the Lord will come in fire, his chariots like the stormwind; To wreak his anger in burning rage and his rebuke in fiery flames.

Jeremiah 21:12

house of David! Thus says the Lord: Each morning dispense justice, rescue the oppressed from the hand of the oppressor, Or my fury will break out like fire and burn with no one to quench it because of your evil deeds.

Ezekiel 7:8

Soon now I will pour out my fury upon you and spend my anger against you; I will judge you according to your ways and hold against you all your abominations.

Ezekiel 21:31

Thus says the Lord God: Off with the turban and away with the crown! Nothing shall be as it was! Exalt the lowly and bring the exalted low!

Ezekiel 39:6

I will send fire against Magog and against those who live securely on the seacoast, and they will know that I am the Lord.

Zephaniah 2:2

Before you are driven away, like chaff that disappears; Before there comes upon you the blazing anger of the Lord; Before there comes upon you the day of the Lord’s anger.

Job 9:5

He removes the mountains before they know it; he overturns them in his anger.

Job 26:11

The pillars of the heavens tremble and are stunned at his thunderous rebuke;

Psalm 76:8

You, terrible are you; who can stand before you and your great anger?

Isaiah 33:14

In Zion sinners are in dread, trembling grips the impious: “Who of us can live with consuming fire? who of us can live with everlasting flames?”

Lamentations 2:3

In blazing wrath, he cut down entirely the horn of Israel; He withdrew the support of his right hand when the enemy approached; He burned against Jacob like a blazing fire that consumes everything in its path.