Nahum 1:9 (WEB)

Passage

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

Nearby Context

Nahum 1:7 Yahweh is good, a stronghold in the day of trouble; and he knows those who take refuge in him.

Nahum 1:8 But with an overflowing flood, he will make a full end of her place, and will pursue his enemies into darkness.

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.

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "plot", "against", "yahweh", "make", "full", "affliction", "rise", and "second". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "plot" and "against", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 8's "But with an overflowing flood he will..." into verse 10's "For entangled like thorns and drunken as...", so "plot" and "against" 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 "plot" and "against" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.