Nahum 1:11
Translations
King James Version (KJV)
There is one come out of you, that imagines evil against the LORD, a wicked counselor.
American King James Version (AKJV)
There is one come out of you, that imagines evil against the LORD, a wicked counselor.
American Standard Version (ASV)
There is one gone forth out of thee, that deviseth evil against Jehovah, that counselleth wickedness.
Basic English Translation (BBE)
One has gone out from you who is designing evil against the Lord, whose purposes are of no value.
Webster's Revision
There is one come out of thee, that imagineth evil against the LORD, a wicked counselor.
World English Bible
There is one gone forth out of you, who devises evil against Yahweh, who counsels wickedness.
English Revised Version (ERV)
There is one gone forth out of thee, that imagineth evil against the LORD, that counselleth wickedness.
Clarke's Nahum 1:11 Bible Commentary
Imagineth evil against the Lord - Such were Pul, 2 Kings 15:10, Tiglath-pileser, 2 Kings 15:29; Shalmaneser, 2 Kings 17:6; and Sennacherib, 2 Kings 18:17; 2 Kings 19:23.
A wicked counsellor - Sennacherib and Rabshakeh.
Barnes's Nahum 1:11 Bible Commentary
There is one come out of thee - that is, Nineveh, "that imagineth" deviseth, , "evil, Lord, Sennacherib, against the the rod of God's anger" Isaiah 10:5-7, yet who "meant not so," as God meant. "And this was his counsel," as is every counsel of Satan, "that they could not resist him, and so should withdraw themselves from the land of God, "into a land like their own" Isaiah 36:16-17, but whose joy and sweetness, its vines and its fig-trees, should not be from God, but from the Assyrian, i. e., from Satan.
Wesley's Nahum 1:11 Bible Commentary
1:11 Come - Sennacherib, or Rabshekah.Thee - From Nineveh.Against the Lord - Against the people of the Lord, 2 Chronicles 32:1 .
