What (A)do you plot against the Lord?
    (B)He will make a complete end;
    trouble will not rise up a second time.

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Whatever they plot(A) against the Lord
    he will bring[a] to an end;
    trouble will not come a second time.

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Footnotes

  1. Nahum 1:9 Or What do you foes plot against the Lord? / He will bring it

22 “Whom have you (A)mocked and (B)reviled?
    Against whom have you raised your voice
and lifted your eyes to the heights?
    Against (C)the Holy One of Israel!
23 (D)By your messengers you have mocked the Lord,
    and you have said, (E)‘With my many chariots
I have gone up the heights of the mountains,
    to the far recesses of (F)Lebanon;
I felled its tallest cedars,
    its choicest cypresses;
I entered its farthest lodging place,
    its most (G)fruitful forest.

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22 Who is it you have ridiculed and blasphemed?(A)
    Against whom have you raised your voice
and lifted your eyes in pride?
    Against the Holy One(B) of Israel!
23 By your messengers
    you have ridiculed the Lord.
And you have said,(C)
    “With my many chariots(D)
I have ascended the heights of the mountains,
    the utmost heights of Lebanon.
I have cut down(E) its tallest cedars,
    the choicest of its junipers.
I have reached its remotest parts,
    the finest of its forests.

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