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Nahum
The Book of Nahum
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Nah.1
[1]
The burden of Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum the
Elkoshite.
[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.
[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.
[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.
[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.
[11] There is
one come out of thee, that imagineth evil against the LORD, a wicked
counseller.
[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.
[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.
Nah.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] 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.
[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.
[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.
[5] He shall recount his worthies:
they shall stumble in their walk; they shall make hast to the wall
thereof, and the defence shall be prepared.
[6] The gates
of the rivers shall be opened, and the palace shall be dissolved.
[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.
[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.
[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?
[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.
[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.
Nah.3
[1]
Woe to the bloody city! it is all full of lies and robbery; the prey
departeth not;
[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:
[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.
[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.
[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 flieth away.
[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.
[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.
[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?