NAH 01:01  The burden of Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum

the Elkohshite.

NAH 01:02  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.

NAH 01:03  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.

NAH 01:04  He rebuketh the sea, and maketh it dry, and drieth up all

the rivers: Bashan languisheth, and Carmel, and the flower of

Lebanon languisheth.

NAH 01:05  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.

NAH 01:06  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.

NAH 01:07  The LORD [is] good, a strong hold in the day of trouble;

and he knoweth them that trust in him.

NAH 01:08  But with an overrunning flood he will make an utter end

of the place thereof, and darkness shall pursue his enemies.

NAH 01:09  What do ye imagine against the LORD? he will make an

utter end: affliction shall not rise up the second time.

NAH 01:10  For while [they be] folden together [as] thorns, and

while they are drunken [as] drunkards, they shall be devoured as

stubble fully dry.

NAH 01:11  There is [one] come out of thee, that imagineth evil

against the LORD, a wicked counsellor.

NAH 01:12  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.

NAH 01:13  For now will I break his yoke from off thee, and will

burst thy bonds in sunder.

NAH 01:14  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.

NAH 01:15  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 02:01  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.

NAH 02:02  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.

NAH 02:03  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.

NAH 02:04  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.

NAH 02:05  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.

NAH 02:06  The gates of the rivers shall be opened, and the palace

shall be dissolved.

NAH 02:07  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.

NAH 02:08  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.

NAH 02:09  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.

NAH 02:10  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.

NAH 02:11  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?

NAH 02:12  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.

NAH 02:13  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 03:01  Woe to the bloody city! it [is] all full of lies [and]

robbery; the prey departeth not;

NAH 03:02  The noise of a whip, and the noise of the rattling of the

wheels, and of the prancing horses, and of the jumping chariots.

NAH 03:03  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:

NAH 03:04  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.

NAH 03:05  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.

NAH 03:06  And I will cast abominable filth upon thee, and make thee

vile, and will set thee as a gazingstock.

NAH 03:07  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?

NAH 03:08  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?

NAH 03:09  Ethiopia and Egypt [were] her strength, and [it was]

infinite; Put and Lubim were thy helpers.

NAH 03:10  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.

NAH 03:11  Thou also shalt be drunken: thou shalt be hid, thou also

shalt seek strength because of the enemy.

NAH 03:12  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.

NAH 03:13  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.

NAH 03:14  Draw thee waters for the siege, fortify thy strong holds:

go into clay, and tread the mortar, make strong the brickkiln.

NAH 03:15  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.

NAH 03:16  Thou hast multiplied thy merchants above the stars of

heaven: the cankerworm spoileth, and fleeth away.

NAH 03:17  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].

NAH 03:18  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].

NAH 03:19  [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?