Nahum

Nahum

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.

3  The 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.

4  nHe rebuketh the sea, and maketh it dry,

And drieth up all the rivers:

opBashan qlanguisheth, and opCarmel,

And the flower of oLebanon qlanguisheth.

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

And the earth tis burned at his presence,

Yea, uthe world, and all that dwell therein.

6  vwWho 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.

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

And che knoweth dthem that trust in him.

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

And darkness shall pursue his enemies.

9  What hdo ye imagine against the Lord?

fHe will make an utter end:

Affliction shall not rise up ithe second time.

10  For while they be kfolden together las thorns,

And mwhile they are drunken as drunkards,

nThey shall be devoured as stubble nnfully dry.

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

†oA wicked counseller.

12  Thus 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.

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

And twill burst thy bonds in sunder.

14  And 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.

15  Behold 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.

2  ddFor 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.

3  The 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.

4  nThe 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.

5  He shall recount his ||worthies:

pThey shall stumble in their walk;

They shall make haste to the wall thereof,

And the †defence shall be prepared.

6  rThe gates of the rivers shall be opened,

And the palace shall be ||sdissolved.

7  And ||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.

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

Yet athey shall flee away.

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

9  Take 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.

10  eShe 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.

11  Where 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?

12  lpThe 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.

13  tBehold, 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.

3 Woe to the †abloody city!

It is all full of lies and robbery;

bThe prey departeth not;

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

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

3  The 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:

4  Because 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.

5  mBehold, 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.

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

And will set thee as ra gazingstock.

7  And 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?

8  wArt 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?

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

ePut and bfLubim were †thy helpers.

10  gYet 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.

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

Thou also shalt seek nstrength because of the enemy.

12  All 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.

13  Behold, 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.

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

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

15  There 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.

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

uThe cankerworm ||wspoileth, and flieth away.

17  xThy 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.

18  Thy 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.

19  There 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?