The Pulpit Commentary on Nahum 1:5

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public domain

The mountains quake. The mountains, the very emblems of stability, tremble before him (Adios 8:8). The hills melt; οἱ βουνοὶ ἐσαλεύθησαν, "The hills were shaken". The hills dissolve like wax or anew at his presence (see Amos 4:13; Micah 1:4).

Burned; Septuagint, ἀνεστάλη, "recoils," "is upheaved," as by an earthquake. This rendering has the greatest authority. The world; i.e. the habitable world, and all living creatures therein (Joel 1:18-20).

Nature animate and inanimate is represented as actuated by the terror of conscious guilt.

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