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- 1:1 The burden of Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum
- the Elkohshite.
- 1:2 God [is] jealous, and the LORD revengeth; the LORD
- revengeth, and [is] furious; the LORD will take vengeance on
- his adversaries, and he reserveth [wrath] for his enemies.
- 1:3 The LORD [is] slow to anger, and great in power, and will
- not at all acquit [the wicked]: the LORD hath his way 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 at him, and the hills melt, and the
- earth is burned at his presence, yea, the world, and all that
- dwell therein.
- 1:6 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.
- 1:7 The LORD [is] good, a strong hold in the day of trouble;
- and he knoweth them that trust in him.
- 1:8 But with an overrunning flood he will make an utter end
- of the place thereof, and darkness shall pursue his enemies.
- 1:9 What do ye imagine against the LORD? he will make an
- utter end: affliction shall not rise up the second time.
- 1:10 For while [they be] folden together [as] thorns, and
- while they are drunken [as] drunkards, they shall be devoured
- as stubble fully dry.
- 1:11 There is [one] come out of thee, that imagineth evil
- against the LORD, a wicked counsellor.
- 1:12 Thus saith the LORD; Though [they be] quiet, and
- likewise many, yet thus shall they be cut down, when he shall
- pass through. Though I have afflicted thee, I will afflict thee
- no more.
- 1:13 For now will I break his yoke from off thee, and will
- burst thy bonds in sunder.
- 1:14 And the LORD hath given a commandment concerning thee,
- [that] no more of thy name be sown: out of the house of thy
- gods will I cut off the graven image and the molten image: I
- will make thy grave; for thou art vile.
- 1:15 Behold upon the mountains the feet of him that bringeth
- good tidings, that publisheth peace! O Judah, keep thy solemn
- feasts, perform thy vows: for the wicked shall no more pass
- through thee; he is utterly cut off.
-
- 2:1 He that dasheth in pieces is come up before thy face:
- keep the munition, watch the way, make [thy] loins strong,
- fortify [thy] power mightily.
- 2:2 For the LORD hath turned away the excellency of Jacob, as
- the excellency of Israel: for the emptiers have emptied them
- out, and marred their vine branches.
- 2:3 The shield of his mighty men is made red, the valiant men
- [are] in scarlet: the chariots [shall be] with flaming torches
- in the day of his preparation, and the fir trees shall be
- terribly shaken.
- 2:4 The chariots shall rage in the streets, they shall justle
- one against another in the broad ways: they shall seem like
- torches, they shall run like the lightnings.
- 2:5 He shall recount his worthies: they shall stumble in
- their walk; they shall make haste to the wall thereof, and the
- defence shall be prepared.
- 2:6 The gates of the rivers shall be opened, and the palace
- shall be dissolved.
- 2:7 And Huzzab shall be led away captive, she shall be
- brought up, and her maids shall lead [her] as with the voice of
- doves, tabering upon their breasts.
- 2:8 But Nineveh [is] of old like a pool of water: yet they
- shall flee away. Stand, stand, [shall they cry]; but none shall
- look back.
- 2:9 Take ye the spoil of silver, take the spoil of gold: for
- [there is] none end of the store [and] glory out of all the
- pleasant furniture.
- 2:10 She is empty, and void, and waste: and the heart
- melteth, and the knees smite together, and much pain [is] in
- all loins, and the faces of them all gather blackness.
- 2:11 Where [is] the dwelling of the lions, and the
- feedingplace of the young lions, where the lion, [even] the old
- lion, walked, [and] the lion's whelp, and none made [them]
- afraid?
- 2:12 The lion did tear 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 the LORD of hosts,
- and I will burn her chariots in the 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]
- robbery; the prey departeth not;
- 3:2 The noise of a whip, and the noise of the rattling of the
- wheels, and of the prancing horses, and of the jumping
- chariots.
- 3:3 The horseman lifteth up both the bright sword and the
- glittering spear: and [there is] a multitude of slain, and a
- great number of carcases; and [there is] none end of [their]
- corpses; they stumble upon their corpses:
- 3:4 Because of the multitude of the whoredoms of the
- wellfavoured harlot, the mistress of witchcrafts, that selleth
- nations through her whoredoms, and families through her
- witchcrafts.
- 3:5 Behold, I [am] against thee, saith the LORD of hosts; and
- I will discover thy skirts upon thy face, and I will show 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 gazingstock.
- 3:7 And it shall come to pass, [that] all they that look upon
- thee shall flee from thee, and say, Nineveh is laid waste: who
- will bemoan her? whence shall I seek comforters for thee?
- 3:8 Art thou better than populous No, that was situate among
- the rivers, [that had] the waters round about it, whose rampart
- [was] the sea, [and] her wall [was] from the sea?
- 3:9 Ethiopia and Egypt [were] her strength, and [it was]
- infinite; Put and Lubim were thy helpers.
- 3:10 Yet [was] she carried away, she went into captivity: her
- young children 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 in chains.
- 3:11 Thou also shalt be drunken: thou shalt be hid, thou also
- shalt seek strength because of the enemy.
- 3:12 All thy strong holds [shall be like] fig trees with the
- firstripe figs: if they be shaken, they shall even fall into
- the mouth of the eater.
- 3:13 Behold, thy people in the midst of thee [are] women: the
- gates of thy land shall be set wide open unto thine enemies:
- the fire shall devour thy bars.
- 3:14 Draw thee waters for the siege, fortify thy strong
- holds: go into clay, and tread the mortar, make strong the
- brickkiln.
- 3:15 There shall the fire devour thee; the sword shall cut
- thee off, it shall eat thee up like the cankerworm: make
- thyself many as the cankerworm, make thyself many as the
- locusts.
- 3:16 Thou hast multiplied thy merchants above the stars of
- heaven: the cankerworm spoileth, and fleeth away.
- 3:17 Thy crowned [are] as the locusts, and thy captains as
- the great grasshoppers, which camp in the hedges in the cold
- day, [but] 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
- shall dwell [in the dust]: thy people is scattered upon the
- mountains, and no man gathereth [them].
- 3:19 [There is] no healing of thy bruise; thy wound is
- grievous: all that hear the bruit of thee shall clap the hands
- over thee: for upon whom hath not thy wickedness passed
- continually?