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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.
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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.
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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?
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