Nahum 1–3

1^*aThe burden of ^bNineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum the

^cElkoshite.

^2||dGod is jealous, and ^ethe Lord revengeth;

The Lord revengeth, and ^†is furious;

The Lord will take vengeance ^fon his adversaries,

And ^ghe reserveth wrath for his enemies.

³The Lord is ^hslow to anger, and ⁱgreat in power,

And ^kwill not at all acquit the wicked:

^lThe Lord hath his way in the whirlwind and in ^mthe storm,

And the clouds are the dust of his feet.

⁴ⁿHe rebuketh the sea, and maketh it dry,

And drieth up all the rivers:

^opBashan ^qlanguisheth, and ^opCarmel,

And the flower of ^oLebanon ^qlanguisheth.

^5rThe mountains quake at him, and ^sthe hills melt,

And the earth ^tis burned at his presence,

Yea, ^uthe world, and all that dwell therein.

^6vwWho can stand before his indignation?

And who can ^†abide in ^xthe fierceness of his anger?

His fury ^yis poured out ^wlike fire,

And ^zthe rocks are thrown down by him.

^7aThe Lord is good, ^ba ^||strong hold in the day of trouble;

And ^che knoweth ^dthem that trust in him.

⁸But with ^ean overrunning flood he will ^fmake an utter end of ^gthe place thereof,

And darkness shall pursue his enemies.

⁹What ^hdo ye imagine against the Lord?

^fHe will make an utter end:

Affliction shall not rise up ⁱthe second time.

¹⁰For while they be ^kfolden together ^las thorns,

And ^mwhile they are drunken as drunkards,

ⁿThey shall be devoured as stubble ⁿⁿfully dry.

¹¹There is one come out of thee, ^hothat imagineth evil against the Lord,

^†oA wicked counseller.

¹²Thus saith the Lord;

^||Though they be ^pquiet, and likewise many,

Yet thus ^qshall they be ^†cut down, when he shall ^rpass through.

^sThough I have afflicted thee, I will afflict thee no more.

¹³For now ^twill I break his yoke from off thee,

And ^twill burst thy bonds in sunder.

¹⁴And the Lord hath given a commandment concerning thee,

That ^uno more of thy name be sown:

^vOut of the house of thy gods will I cut off the graven image and the molten image:

I ^vwill make thy grave; for ^wthou art vile.

¹⁵Behold ^xupon the mountains ^ythe feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace!

O Judah, ^†keep thy solemn feasts, ^zperform thy vows:

For ^†othe wicked shall no more ^rapass through thee;

^vHe is utterly cut off.

2^||He that dasheth in pieces is come up before thy face:

^cKeep the munition, ^dwatch the way, make thy loins strong, fortify thy power mightily.

^2ddFor the Lord hath turned away ^||ethe excellency of Jacob,

As the excellency of Israel:

For ^gthe emptiers have emptied them out,

And ^hmarred their vine branches.

³The shield of his mighty men is ⁱmade red,

The valiant men are ^||kin scarlet:

The chariots shall be with ^||flaming ^ltorches in the day of his preparation,

And the fir trees shall be ^mterribly shaken.

⁴ⁿThe chariots shall ⁿⁿrage in the streets,

They shall ^ojustle one against another in the broad ways:

^†They shall seem like torches,

They shall ^orun like the lightnings.

⁵He shall recount his ^||worthies:

^pThey shall stumble in their walk;

They shall make haste to the wall thereof,

And the ^†defence shall be prepared.

^6rThe gates of the rivers shall be opened,

And the palace shall be ^||sdissolved.

⁷And ^||uHuzzab shall be ^||vled away captive, she shall be brought up,

And her maids shall lead her as with the voice of ^wdoves,

^xTabering upon their breasts.

⁸But ^yNineveh is ^||of old like ^za pool of water:

Yet ^athey shall flee away.

Stand, stand, ^bshall they cry; but none shall ^||clook back.

⁹Take ye the spoil of silver, take the spoil of gold:

^||For there is none end of ^dthe store and glory out of all the ^†pleasant furniture.

^10eShe is empty, and void, and ^fwaste:

And ^gthe heart melteth, and ^hthe knees smite together,

And ^himuch pain is in all loins,

And ^kthe faces of them all gather blackness.

¹¹Where is the dwelling of ^lthe lions,

And the feedingplace of the ^lmyoung lions,

Where ^lnthe lion, even ^lmnthe old lion, walked,

And ^lnthe lion’s whelp, and ^onone made them afraid?

^12lpThe lion did tear in pieces enough ^qfor his whelps,

And strangled for his ^rlionesses,

And ^pfilled his holes ^swith prey,

And his dens with ravin.

^13tBehold, I am against thee, saith the Lord of hosts,

And ^uI will burn her chariots in the smoke,

And the sword shall devour ^lthy young lions:

And I will cut off ^sthy prey from the earth,

And the voice of ^vthy messengers shall no more be heard.

3Woe to the ^†abloody city!

It is all full of lies and robbery;

^bThe prey departeth not;

²The noise of a whip, and ^cthe noise of the rattling of the wheels,

And of the ^dpransing horses, and of the ^ejumping chariots.

³The horseman lifteth up both ^†the bright sword and ^fthe glittering spear:

And ^gthere is a multitude of slain, and a great number of carcases;

And there is none end of their corpses; they stumble upon their corpses:

⁴Because of the multitude of the whoredoms of the wellfavoured ^hharlot,

ⁱThe ^kmistress of ^lwitchcrafts,

That selleth nations through ^hher whoredoms,

And families through her ^lwitchcrafts.

^5mBehold, I am against thee, saith the Lord of hosts;

And ⁿI will discover thy skirts upon thy face,

And ^noI will shew the nations thy nakedness,

And the kingdoms ^opthy shame.

⁶And ^ppI will cast abominable filth upon thee, and ^qmake thee vile,

And will set thee as ^ra gazingstock.

⁷And it shall come to pass, that all they that ^rlook upon thee ^sshall flee from thee, and say,

^tNineveh is laid waste: ^uwho will bemoan her?

^vWhence shall I seek comforters for thee?

^8wArt thou better than ^||†populous ^xNo,

That was situate among ^ythe rivers, that had the waters round about it,

Whose ^zrampart was ^athe sea, and her wall was from ^athe sea?

^9bcEthiopia and ^bEgypt were her strength, and ^dit was infinite;

^ePut and ^bfLubim were ^†thy helpers.

^10gYet was she carried away, she went into captivity:

^hHer young children also were dashed in pieces ⁱat the top of all the streets:

And ^kthey cast lots for ^lher honourable men,

And all her great men were bound ^lin chains.

^11mThou also shalt be drunken: thou shalt be hid,

Thou also shalt seek ⁿstrength because of the enemy.

¹²All thy strong holds shall be ^olike ^pfig trees with the firstripe figs:

If they be shaken, they shall even fall into the mouth of the eater.

¹³Behold, thy people in the midst of thee ^qrare women:

The gates of thy land shall be set wide open unto thine enemies:

The fire shall devour thy ^rbars.

^14sDraw thee waters for the siege, ^tfortify thy strong holds:

Go into clay, and tread ^ttthe morter, make strong the brickkiln.

¹⁵There shall the fire devour thee;

The sword shall cut thee off,

It shall eat thee up like ^uthe cankerworm:

Make thyself many as ^uthe cankerworm,

Make thyself many as ^uthe locusts.

¹⁶Thou hast multiplied ^vthy merchants above the stars of heaven:

^uThe cankerworm ^||wspoileth, and flieth away.

^17xThy crowned are as ^uthe locusts, and thy ^ycaptains as ^zthe 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.

¹⁸Thy shepherds ^aslumber, ^bO king of Assyria: thy ^||cnobles shall ^ddwell in the dust:

Thy people ^eis scattered upon the mountains, and ^fno man gathereth them.

¹⁹There is no ^†healing of ^gthy bruise; ^hthy wound is grievous:

All that hear ⁱthe bruit of thee ^kshall clap the hands over thee:

For ^lupon whom hath not thy wickedness passed continually?