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What does Nahum 1:7 mean?

"Yahweh is good, a stronghold in the day of trouble; and he knows those who take refuge in him."

— Nahum 1:7 (World English Bible)

Surrounding context

4

He rebukes the sea, and makes it dry, and dries up all the rivers. Bashan languishes, and Carmel; and the flower of Lebanon languishes.

5

The mountains quake before him, and the hills melt away. The earth trembles at his presence, yes, the world, and all who dwell in it.

6

Who can stand before his indignation? Who can endure the fierceness of his anger? His wrath is poured out like fire, and the rocks are broken apart by him.

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Yahweh is good, a stronghold in the day of trouble; and he knows those who take refuge in him.

8

But with an overflowing flood, he will make a full end of her place, and will pursue his enemies into darkness.

9

What do you plot against Yahweh? He will make a full end. Affliction won’t rise up the second time.

10

For entangled like thorns, and drunken as with their drink, they are consumed utterly like dry stubble.

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