Nahum 1:11
Good News Translation
From you, Nineveh, there came someone full of wicked schemes, who plotted against the LORD.

New Revised Standard Version
From you one has gone out who plots evil against the LORD, one who counsels wickedness.

Contemporary English Version
Assyria, one of your rulers has made evil plans against the LORD.

New American Bible
From you has come one plotting evil against the LORD, one giving sinister counsel.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Out of thee shall come forth one that imagineth evil against the Lord, contriving treachery in his mind.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Out of thee shall come forth one that imagineth evil against the Lord, contriving treachery in his mind.

one.

Nahum 1:9 What do ye devise against the Lord? he will make an utter end: there shall not rise a double affliction.

2 Kings 18:13,14,30 In the fourteenth year of king Ezechias, Sennacherib, king of the Assyrians, came up against the fenced cities of Juda, and took them. . . .

2 Kings 19:22-25 Whom hast thou reproached, and whom hast thou blasphemed? against whom hast thou exalted thy voice, and lifted up thy eyes on high? against the holy one of Israel. . . .

2 Chronicles 32:15-19 Therefore let not Ezechias deceive you, nor delude you with a vain persuasion, and do not believe him. For if no god of all the nations and kingdoms, could deliver his people out of my hand, and out of the hand of my fathers, consequently neither shall your God be able to deliver you out of my hand. . . .

Isaiah 10:7-15 But he shall not take it so, and his heart shall not think so: but his heart shall be set to destroy, and to cut off nations not a few. . . .

wicked counsellor.

1 Samuel 2:12 Now the sons of Heli were children of Belial, not knowing the Lord,

2 Samuel 20:1 And there happened to be there a man of Belial, whose name was Seba, the son of Bochri, a man of Jemini: and he sounded the trumpet, and said: We have no part in David, nor inheritance in the son of Isai: return to thy dwellings, O Israel.

2 Chronicles 13:7 And there were gathered to him vain men, and children of Belial: and they prevailed against Roboam the son of Solomon: for Roboam was unexperienced, and of a fearful heart, and could not resist them.

Context
The Oracle of Nineveh
10For as thorns embrace one another: so while they are feasting and drinking together, they shall be consumed as stubble that is fully dry. 11Out of thee shall come forth one that imagineth evil against the Lord, contriving treachery in his mind.12Thus saith the Lord: Though they were perfect: and many of them so, yet thus shall they be cut off, and he shall pass: I have afflicted thee, and I will afflict thee no more.…
Cross References
Isaiah 10:7
But he shall not take it so, and his heart shall not think so: but his heart shall be set to destroy, and to cut off nations not a few.

Ezekiel 11:2
And he said to me: Son of man, these are the men that study iniquity, and frame a wicked counsel in this city,

Micah 2:1
Make thee bald, and be polled for thy delicate children: enlarge thy baldness as the eagle: for they are carried into captivity from thee.

Nahum 1:9
What do ye devise against the Lord? he will make an utter end: there shall not rise a double affliction.

Nahum 1:10
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