From you comes forth one Who plots evil against the Lord, A wicked counselor.
Parallel translations
- WEB There is one gone out of you, who devises evil against Yahweh, who counsels wickedness.
- KJV There is one come out of thee, that imagineth evil against the LORD, a wicked counsellor.
- BSB From you, O Nineveh, comes forth a plotter of evil against the LORD, a counselor of wickedness.
- NASB From you has gone out One who plotted evil against the Lord, A wicked counselor.
- NLT Who is this wicked counselor of yours who plots evil against the Lord?
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Quick answer
From Nineveh came one who devises evil against the Lord and counsels wickedness. The city is marked by leadership set against God.
Overview
This likely refers to an Assyrian king or commander, possibly Sennacherib, whose defiance of the Lord epitomized the empire's arrogance. To counsel wickedness against God is the height of rebellion. Such opposition to the Lord and his people ultimately collapses, as all who set themselves against God's anointed will discover.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 9
- Nah 1:9What do you plot against Yahweh? He will make a full end. Affliction won’t rise up the second time.
- 2 Chr 13:7Worthless men were gathered to him, base fellows who strengthened themselves against Rehoboam the son of Solomon, when Rehoboam was young and tender hearted, and could not withstand them.
- 2 Chr 32:15–19Now therefore don’t let Hezekiah deceive you, nor persuade you in this way. Don’t believe him, for no god of any nation or kingdom was able to deliver his people out of my hand, and out of the hand of my fathers. How much less will your God deliver you out of my hand?”
- 2 Sam 20:1There happened to be there a base fellow, whose name was Sheba, the son of Bichri, a Benjamite; and he blew the trumpet, and said, “We have no portion in David, neither have we inheritance in the son of Jesse. Every man to his tents, Israel!”
- 2 Kgs 19:22–25Whom have you defied and blasphemed? Against whom have you exalted your voice and lifted up your eyes on high? Against the Holy One of Israel!
- 1 Sam 2:12Now the sons of Eli were wicked men. They didn’t know Yahweh.
- 2 Kgs 18:30Don’t let Hezekiah make you trust in Yahweh, saying, “Yahweh will surely deliver us, and this city shall not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.”
- Isa 10:7–15However he doesn’t mean so, neither does his heart think so; but it is in his heart to destroy, and to cut off not a few nations.
- 2 Kgs 18:13–14Now in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah, Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all the fortified cities of Judah, and took them.
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The certain judgment on Nineveh and the comfort that 'the LORD is good, a stronghold in the day of trouble' point to Christ, who is both the refuge of his people and the judge of their enemies.
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