Nahum 1:4

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

— WEB

“He rebuketh the sea, and maketh it dry, and drieth up all the rivers: Bashan languisheth, and Carmel, and the flower of Lebanon languisheth.”

— KJV

“He rebuketh the sea, and maketh it dry, and drieth up all the rivers: Bashan languisheth, and Carmel; and the flower of Lebanon languisheth.”

— ASV

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Psalms 106:9 "He rebuked the Red Sea also, and it was dried up; so he led them through the depths, as through a desert."
Isaiah 33:9 "The land mourns and languishes. Lebanon is confounded and withers away. Sharon is like a desert, and Bashan and Carmel are stripped bare."
Psalms 114:5 "What was it, you sea, that you fled? You Jordan, that you turned back?"
Isaiah 44:27 "who says to the deep, ‘Be dry,’ and ‘I will dry up your rivers;’"
Psalms 114:3 "The sea saw it, and fled. The Jordan was driven back."
Isaiah 50:2-3 "Why, when I came, was there no one? when I called, why was there no one to answer? Is my hand shortened at all, that it can’t redeem? or …"
Psalms 104:7 "At your rebuke they fled. At the voice of your thunder they hurried away."
Joshua 3:13-15 "It shall be that when the soles of the feet of the priests who bear the ark of Yahweh, the Lord of all the earth, rest in the waters of t…"

Commentary

rebuketh the sea--as Jesus did (Mat 8:26), proving Himself God (compare Isa 50:2). Bashan languisheth--through drought; ordinarily it was a region famed for its rich pasturage (compare Joe 1:10). flower of Lebanon--its bloom; all that blooms so luxuriantly on Lebanon (Hos 14:7). As Bashan was famed for its pastures, Carmel for its corn fields and vineyards, so Lebanon for its forests (Isa 33:9). There is nothing in the world so blooming that God cannot change it when He is wroth.

— Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (public domain)

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