Nahum 1:11 (WEB)

Passage

There is one gone out of you, who devises evil against Yahweh, who counsels wickedness.

Nearby Context

Nahum 1:9 What do you plot against Yahweh? He will make a full end. Affliction won’t rise up the second time.

Nahum 1:10 For entangled like thorns, and drunken as with their drink, they are consumed utterly like dry stubble.

Nahum 1:11 There is one gone out of you, who devises evil against Yahweh, who counsels wickedness.

Nahum 1:12 Yahweh says: “Though they be in full strength, and likewise many, even so they will be cut down, and he shall pass away. Though I have afflicted you, I will afflict you no more.

Nahum 1:13 Now will I break his yoke from off you, and will burst your bonds apart.”

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "gone", "devises", "evil", "against", "yahweh", "counsels", and "wickedness". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "gone" and "devises", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 10's "For entangled like thorns and drunken as..." into verse 12's "Yahweh says Though they be in full...", so "gone" and "devises" belong inside that flow. In Nahum context, the local focus is covenant, worship, and faithfulness.

A plain takeaway is to answer the verse's own emphasis on "gone" and "devises" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.