And will not at all acquit the wicked.
cThe Lord has His way
In the whirlwind and in the storm,
And the clouds are the dust of His feet.
And dries up all the rivers.
bBashan and Carmel wither,
And the flower of Lebanon wilts.
The hills melt,
And the earth1 heaves at His presence,
Yes, the world and all who dwell in it.
And awho can endure the fierceness of His anger?
His fury is poured out like fire,
And the rocks are thrown down by Him.
He will make an utter end of its place,
And darkness will pursue His enemies.
bHe will make an utter end of it.
Affliction will not rise up a second time.
bAnd while drunken like drunkards,
cThey shall be devoured like stubble fully dried.
“Though they are1 safe, and likewise many,
Yet in this manner they will be acut down
When he passes through.
Though I have afflicted you,
I will afflict you no more;
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Nahum 1:5
The mountains quaked at Him, and the hills melted - As of their own accord. The words are a renewal of those of Amos Amos 9:13. Inanimate nature is pictured as endowed with the terror, which guilt feels at the presence of God. All power; whether greater or less, whatsoever lifteth itself up, shall give way in that Day, which shall be "upon all the cedars of Lebanon that are high and lifted up, and upon all the oaks of Bashan, and upon all the high mountains, and upon all the hills that are lifted up" Isaiah 2:13-14. "And the earth is burned" (rather lifteth itself up; as an an earthquake it seems, as it were, to rise and sink down, lifting itself as if to meet its God or to flee. What is strongest, shaketh; what is hardest, melteth; yea, the whole world trembles and is removed. : "If," said even Jews of old, "when God made Himself known in mercy, to give the law to His people, the world was so moved at His presence, how much more, when He shall reveal Himself in wrath!" The words are so great that they bear the soul on to the time, when the heaven and earth shall flee away from the Face of Him "Who sitteth on the throne, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat" Revelation 20:11; II Peter 3:10. And since all judgments are images of the Last, and the awe at tokens of God' s presence is a shadow of the terror of that coming, he adds,
Other Barnes' Notes entries containing Nahum 1:5:
Job 26:11
Psalms 75:3
Psalms 97:5
Psalms 107:26
Psalms 119:120
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