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1:1 The burden of Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum the
 Elkoshite.
1:2 A jealous and avenging ∙God is Jehovah: an avenger is
 Jehovah, and full of fury: Jehovah taketh vengeance on his
 adversaries, and he reserveth [wrath] for his enemies.
1:3 Jehovah is slow to anger, and great in power, and doth not
 at all clear [the guilty]: Jehovah, -- his way is in the
 whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his
 feet.
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.
1:5 The mountains quake before him, and the hills melt, and the
 earth is upheaved at his presence, and the world, and all that
 dwell therein.
1:6 Who shall stand before his indignation? and who shall abide
 in the fierceness of his anger? His fury is poured out like
 fire, and the rocks are broken asunder by him.
1:7 Jehovah is good, a stronghold in the day of trouble; and he
 knoweth them that trust in him.
1:8 But with an overrunning flood he will make a full end of the
 place thereof, and darkness shall pursue his enemies.
1:9 What do ye imagine against Jehovah? He will make a full end:
 trouble shall not rise up the second time.
1:10 Though they be tangled together [as] thorns, and be as
 drenched from their drink, they shall be devoured as dry
 stubble, completely.
1:11 Out of thee is gone forth one that imagineth evil against
 Jehovah, a wicked counsellor.
1:12 Thus saith Jehovah: Though they be complete in number, and
 many as they be, even so shall they be cut down, and he shall
 pass away; and though I have afflicted thee, I will afflict
 thee no more.
1:13 And now will I break his yoke from off thee, and will burst
 thy bonds asunder.
1:14 And Jehovah hath given commandment concerning thee, that no
 more of thy name be sown: out of the house of thy god will I
 cut off the graven image, and the molten image: I will prepare
 thy grave; for thou art vile.
1:15 Behold upon the mountains the feet of him that bringeth
 glad tidings, that publisheth peace! Celebrate thy feasts,
 Judah, perform thy vows: for the wicked one shall no more pass
 through thee; he is utterly cut off.
2:1 He that dasheth in pieces is come up against thy face: keep
 the fortress, watch the way, make [thy] loins strong, fortify
 [thy] power mightily.
2:2 For Jehovah hath brought again the glory of Jacob, as the
 glory of Israel; for the wasters have wasted them, and marred
 their vine-branches.
2:3 The shield of his mighty men is made red, the valiant men
 are in scarlet: the chariots [glitter] with the sheen of steel,
 in the day of his preparation, and the spears are brandished.
2:4 The chariots rush madly in the streets, they justle one
 against another in the broad ways: the appearance of them is
 like torches, they run like lightnings.
2:5 He bethinketh him of his nobles: they stumble in their
 march; they make haste to the wall thereof, and the shelter is
 prepared.
2:6 The gates of the rivers are opened, and the palace melteth
 away.
2:7 And it is decreed: she shall be uncovered, she shall be led
 away, and her maids shall moan as with the voice of doves,
 drumming upon their breasts.
2:8 Nineveh hath been like a pool of water, since the day she
 existed, yet they flee away. ... Stand! Stand! But none looketh
 back.
2:9 Plunder the silver, plunder the gold; for there is no end of
 the splendid store of all precious vessels.
2:10 She is empty, and void, and waste; and the heart melteth,
 and the knees smite together, and writhing pain is in all
 loins, and all their faces grow pale.
2:11 Where is [now] the den of the lions, and the feeding-place
 of the young lions, where the lion, the lioness, [and] the
 lion's whelp walked, and none made them afraid?
2:12 The lion tore in pieces enough for his whelps, and
 strangled for his lionesses, and filled his holes with prey,
 and his dens with ravin.
2:13 Behold, I am against thee, saith Jehovah of hosts: and I
 will burn her chariots into smoke; and the sword shall devour
 thy young lions, and I will cut off thy prey from the earth;
 and the voice of thy messengers shall no more be heard.
3:1 Woe to the bloody city! It is all full of lies [and]
 violence; the prey departeth not.
3:2 The crack of the whip, and the noise of the rattling of the
 wheels, and of the prancing horses, and of the bounding
 chariots!
3:3 The horseman springing up, and the glitter of the sword, and
 the flash of the spear, and a multitude of slain, and a mass of
 carcases, and no end of corpses: they stumble over their
 corpses.
3:4 -- Because of the multitude of the fornications of the
 well-favoured harlot, mistress of sorceries, that selleth
 nations through her fornications, and families through her
 sorceries,
3:5 behold, I am against thee, saith Jehovah of hosts; and I
 will uncover thy skirts upon thy face, and I will shew the
 nations thy nakedness, and the kingdoms thy shame.
3:6 And I will cast abominable filth upon thee, and make thee
 vile, and will set thee as a gazing stock.
3:7 And it shall come to pass, [that] all they that see thee
 shall flee from thee, and shall say, Nineveh is laid waste! Who
 will bemoan her? whence shall I seek comforters for thee?
3:8 Art thou better than No-Amon, that was situate among the
 rivers, [that had] the waters round about her, whose rampart
 was the sea, [and] of the sea was her wall?
3:9 Ethiopia was her strength, and Egypt, and it was infinite;
 Phut and the Libyans were her helpers.
3:10 She too was carried away, she went into captivity: her
 infants also were dashed in pieces, at the top of all the
 streets; and they cast lots for her honourable men, and all her
 great men were bound with chains.
3:11 Thou also shalt be drunken: thou shalt be hid; thou also
 shalt seek a refuge from the enemy.
3:12 All thy strongholds are [like] fig-trees with the
 first-ripe figs: if they be shaken, they even fall into the
 mouth of the eater.
3:13 Behold, thy people in the midst of thee are [as] women: the
 gates of thy land are set wide open unto thine enemies; the
 fire devoureth thy bars.
3:14 Draw thee water for the siege, strengthen thy fortresses;
 go into the clay, and tread the mortar, make strong the
 brick-kiln.
3:15 There shall the fire devour thee; the sword shall cut thee
 off; it shall devour thee like the cankerworm. Make thyself
 many as the cankerworm, make thyself many as the locust.
3:16 Thou hast multiplied thy merchants more than the stars of
 the heavens; the cankerworm spreadeth himself out and flieth
 away.
3:17 Thy chosen men are as the locusts, and thy captains as
 swarms of grasshoppers, which camp in the hedges in the cold
 day: when the sun ariseth they flee away, and their place is
 not known where they are.
3:18 Thy shepherds slumber, O king of Assyria; thy nobles lie
 still; thy people are scattered upon the mountains, and no man
 gathereth them.
3:19 There is no healing of thy breach; thy wound is grievous;
 all that hear the report of thee clap the hands over thee; for
 upon whom hath not thy wickedness passed continually?