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- NAHUM:
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- CHAPTER 1
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-
- 1. The burden of Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum the
- Elkoshite.
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- 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.
-
- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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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- 11. There is one come out of thee, that imagineth evil against
- the LORD, a wicked counsellor.
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- 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.
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- 13. For now will I break his yoke from off thee, and will burst
- thy bonds in sunder.
-
- 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.
-
- 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.
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- CHAPTER 2
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 6. The gates of the rivers shall be opened, and the palace shall
- be dissolved.
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- 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.
-
- 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.
-
- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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?
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- 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.
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- 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.
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-
- CHAPTER 3
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- 1. Woe to the bloody city! it is all full of lies and robbery;
- the prey departeth not;
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- 2. The noise of a whip, and the noise of the rattling of the
- wheels, and of the pransing horses, and of the jumping chariots.
-
- 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:
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- 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.
-
- 5. Behold, I am against thee, saith the LORD of hosts; and I
- will discover thy skirts upon thy face, and I will shew the
- nations thy nakedness, and the kingdoms thy shame.
-
- 6. And I will cast abominable filth upon thee, and make thee
- vile, and will set thee as a gazingstock.
-
- 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?
-
- 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?
-
- 9. Ethiopia and Egypt were her strength, and it was infinite;
- Put and Lubim were thy helpers.
-
- 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.
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- 11. Thou also shalt be drunken: thou shalt be hid, thou also
- shalt seek strength because of the enemy.
-
- 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.
-
- 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.
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- 14. Draw thee waters for the siege, fortify thy strong holds: go
- into clay, and tread the morter, make strong the brickkiln.
-
- 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.
-
- 16. Thou hast multiplied thy merchants above the stars of
- heaven: the cankerworm spoileth, and fleeth away.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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?
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