Nahum continues to describe the power of Yahweh over the whole world

## languishes...languish ##

Alternate Translation: "weakens...weaken" or "fades...fade"

## The mountains shake in his presence, and the hills melt; the earth collapses in his presence ##

Alternate translation: "The mountains, the hills, and even the earth are afraid of Yahweh" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-personification]] and [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor]] and [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metonymy]])

## shake ##

like a person who is afraid

## collapses ##

"falls to the ground in fear"