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- NAHUM 1:1 The burden of Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum
- the Elkoshite.
- NAHUM 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.
- NAHUM 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.
- NAHUM 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.
- NAHUM 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.
- NAHUM 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.
- NAHUM 1:7 The Lord {is} good, a strong hold in the day of
- trouble; and he knoweth them that trust in him.
- NAHUM 1:8 But with an overrunning flood he will make an utter end
- of the place thereof, and darkness shall pursue his enemies.
- NAHUM 1:9 What do ye imagine against the Lord? he will make an
- utter end: affliction shall not rise up the second time.
- NAHUM 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.
- NAHUM 1:11 There is {one} come out of thee, that imagineth evil
- against the Lord, a wicked counseller.
- NAHUM 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.
- NAHUM 1:13 For now will I break his yoke from off thee, and will
- burst thy bonds in sunder.
- NAHUM 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.
- NAHUM 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.
- NAHUM 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.
- NAHUM 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.
- NAHUM 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.
- NAHUM 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.
- NAHUM 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.
- NAHUM 2:6 The gates of the rivers shall be opened, and the palace
- shall be dissolved.
- NAHUM 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.
- NAHUM 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.
- NAHUM 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.
- NAHUM 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.
- NAHUM 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?
- NAHUM 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.
- NAHUM 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.
- NAHUM 3:1 Woe to the bloody city! it {is} all full of lies {and}
- robbery; the prey departeth not;
- NAHUM 3:2 The noise of a whip, and the noise of the rattling of
- the wheels, and of the pransing horses, and of the jumping
- chariots.
- NAHUM 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:
- NAHUM 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.
- NAHUM 3:5 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.
- NAHUM 3:6 And I will cast abominable filth upon thee, and make
- thee vile, and will set thee as a gazingstock.
- NAHUM 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?
- NAHUM 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?
- NAHUM 3:9 Ethiopia and Egypt {were} her strength, and {it was}
- infinite; Put and Lubim were thy helpers.
- NAHUM 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.
- NAHUM 3:11 Thou also shalt be drunken: thou shalt be hid, thou
- also shalt seek strength because of the enemy.
- NAHUM 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.
- NAHUM 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.
- NAHUM 3:14 Draw thee waters for the siege, fortify thy strong
- holds: go into clay, and tread the morter, make strong the
- brickkiln.
- NAHUM 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.
- NAHUM 3:16 Thou hast multiplied thy merchants above the stars of
- heaven: the cankerworm spoileth, and flieth away.
- NAHUM 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}.
- NAHUM 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}.
- NAHUM 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?