KJV King James Version
The LORD [is] good, a strong hold in the day of trouble; and he knoweth them that trust in him.
VERSE STUDY • KJV
Nahum 1:7
The LORD [is] good, a strong hold in the day of trouble; and he knoweth them that trust in him.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
The LORD is good, a stronghold in the day of distress; He cares for those who trust in Him.
WEB World English Bible
Yahweh is good, a stronghold in the day of trouble; and he knows those who take refuge in him.
ASV American Standard Version
Jehovah is good, a stronghold in the day of trouble; and he knoweth them that take refuge in him.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
Good is Jehovah for a strong place in a day of distress. And He knoweth those trusting in Him.
Surrounding context — Nahum 1
4 He rebuketh the sea, and maketh it dry, and drieth up all the rivers: Bashan languisheth, and Carmel, and the flower of Lebanon languisheth.
5 The mountains quake at him, and the hills melt, and the earth is burned at his presence, yea, the world, and all that dwell therein.
6 Who can stand before his indignation? and who can abide in the fierceness of his anger? his fury is poured out like fire, and the rocks are thrown down by him.
7 The LORD [is] good, a strong hold in the day of trouble; and he knoweth them that trust in him.
8 But with an overrunning flood he will make an utter end of the place thereof, and darkness shall pursue his enemies.
9 What do ye imagine against the LORD? he will make an utter end: affliction shall not rise up the second time.
10 For while [they be] folden together [as] thorns, and while they are drunken [as] drunkards, they shall be devoured as stubble fully dry.
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2 Timothy 2:19Nevertheless the foundation of God standeth sure, having this seal, The Lord knoweth them that are his. And, Let every one that nameth the name of Christ depart from iniquity.John 10:27My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me:Lamentations 3:25The LORD [is] good unto them that wait for him, to the soul [that] seeketh him.John 10:14I am the good shepherd, and know my [sheep], and am known of mine.Psalm 91:1-2He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.Psalm 100:5For the LORD [is] good; his mercy [is] everlasting; and his truth [endureth] to all generations.Psalm 27:5For in the time of trouble he shall hide me in his pavilion: in the secret of his tabernacle shall he hide me; he shall set me up upon a rock.Proverbs 18:10The name of the LORD [is] a strong tower: the righteous runneth into it, and is safe.Psalm 1:6For the LORD knoweth the way of the righteous: but the way of the ungodly shall perish.Galatians 4:9But now, after that ye have known God, or rather are known of God, how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements, whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage?Isaiah 25:4For thou hast been a strength to the poor, a strength to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shadow from the heat, when the blast of the terrible ones [is] as a storm [against] the wall.1 Chronicles 16:34O give thanks unto the LORD; for [he is] good; for his mercy [endureth] for ever.Psalm 18:1-2To the chief Musician, [A Psalm] of David, the servant of the LORD, who spake unto the LORD the words of this song in the day [that] the LORD delivered him from the hand of all his enemies, and from the hand of Saul: And he said, I will love thee, O LORD, my strength.Jeremiah 17:7-8Blessed [is] the man that trusteth in the LORD, and whose hope the LORD is.Psalm 84:11-12For the LORD God [is] a sun and shield: the LORD will give grace and glory: no good [thing] will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.Jeremiah 33:11The voice of joy, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride, the voice of them that shall say, Praise the LORD of hosts: for the LORD [is] good; for his mercy [endureth] for ever: [and] of them that shall bring the sacrifice of praise into the house of the LORD. For I will cause to return the captivity of the land, as at the first, saith the LORD.Psalm 86:7In the day of my trouble I will call upon thee: for thou wilt answer me.Isaiah 32:2And a man shall be as an hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest; as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land.
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