Nàhóngshū 1:5

5 Dà shān yīn tā zhèndòng , xiǎo shān yĕ dōu xiāohuà . dàdì zaì tā miànqián tū qǐ , shìjiè hé zhù zaì qí jiān de , yĕ dōu rúcǐ .

Nàhóngshū 1:5 Meaning and Commentary

Nahum 1:5

The mountains quake at him, and the hills melt
As Sinai of old did, when the Lord descended on it, ( Exodus 19:18 ) ( Judges 5:5 ) . Mountains figuratively signify kings and princes; and hills large countries, as Jarchi and Abarbinel observe, and the inhabitants of them; particularly the kingdoms and nations belonging to the Assyrian empire, which would tremble and quake, and their hearts melt with fear, when they should hear of the destruction of Nineveh their chief city; and of the devastation made by the enemy there and in other parts, under the direction of the Lord of hosts; his power and providence succeeding him: and the earth is burnt at his presence;
either when he withholds rain from it, and so it be comes parched and burnt up with the heat of the sun; or when he rains fire and brimstone on it, as he did on Sodom and Gomorrah; or consumes any part of it with thunder and lightning, as he sometimes does; nay, if he but touch the mountains, they smoke; see ( Psalms 104:32 ) ; yea, the world, and all that dwell therein;
as in the last day, at the general conflagration, when the world, and all the wicked inhabitants of it, will be burnt up; see ( 2 Peter 3:10 ) .

Nàhóngshū 1:5 In-Context

3 Yēhéhuá bù qīngyì fānù , dà yǒu nénglì ,wàn bù yǐ yǒu zuì de wèi wú zuì . tā chéng xuán fēng hé bàofēng ér lái , yúncai wèi tā jiǎo xià de chéntǔ .

4 Tā chìzé hǎi , shǐ hǎi gān le , shǐ yīqiè jiāng hé gān hé . Bāshān hé Jiāmì de shùlín shuāi cán , Lìbānèn de huā cǎo yĕ shuāi cán le .

5 Dà shān yīn tā zhèndòng , xiǎo shān yĕ dōu xiāohuà . dàdì zaì tā miànqián tū qǐ , shìjiè hé zhù zaì qí jiān de , yĕ dōu rúcǐ .

6 Tā fā fèn hèn , shuí néng lì dé zhù ne . tā fā liè nù , shuí néng dāng dé qǐ ne . tāde fèn nù rú huǒ qīng dǎo , pánshí yīn tā bēngliè .

7 Yēhéhuá bĕn wéi shàn , zaì huànnàn de rìzi wéirén de bǎo zhàng . bìngqiĕ rèn dé nàxiē tóukào tāde rén .