Nahum
Chapter 1
1:1The burden of Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite.
1:2El is jealous,and YHWH revenges:YHWH revenges:even YHWH of anger, the Lord will take vengeance on his adversaries,and he reserves wrath for his enemies.
1:3YHWH is slow to anger,but he is great in power,and will not surely clear the wicked:YHWH has his way in the whirlwind,and in the storm,and the clouds are the dust of his feet.
1:4He rebukes the sea,and dries it,and he dries up all the rivers:Bashan is wasted and Carmel,and the flour of Lebanon is wasted.
1:5The mountains tremble for him, and the hills melt, and the earth is burnt at his sight, yes, the world, and all that dwell in it.
1:6Who can stand before his wrath? Or who can abide in the fierceness of his wrath? His wrath is poured out like fire,and the rocks are broken by him.
1:7YHWH is good and as a strong hold in the day of trouble,and he knows them that trust in him.
1:8But passing over as with a flood, he will utterly destroy the place of it, and darkness shall pursue his enemies.
1:9What do you imagine against YHWH? He will make an utter destruction:affliction shall not rise up the second time.
1:10For he shall come as to thorns folden one in another,and as to drunkards in their drunkenness:they shall be devoured as stubble fully dried.
1:11There comes one out of you that imagines evil against YHWH, even a wicked counselor.
1:12Thus saysYHWH, Though they be quiet,and also many, yet thus shall they be cut off when he shall pass by:though I have afflicted you, I will afflict you no more.
1:13For now I will break his yoke from you,and will burst your bonds in sunder.
1:14And YHWH has given a commandment concerning you,that no more of your name be sown:out of the house of your gods will I cut off the graven,and the molten image:I will make it your grave for you,for you are vile.
Chapter 2
2:1Behold upon the mountains the feet of him that declares, and publishes peace: O Judah, keep your appointed feasts, perform your vows: for the wicked shall no more pass through you: he is utterly cut off.
2:2The destroyer is come before your face:keep the munition:look to the way:make your loins strong:increase your strength mightily.
2:3For YHWH has turned away the glory of Jacob, as the glory of Israel:for the emptiers have emptied them out,and marred their vine branches.
2:4The shield of his mighty men is made red:the valiant men are in scarlet:the chariots shall be as in the fire and flames in the day of his preparation,and the fir trees shall tremble.
2:5The chariots shall rage in the streets:they shall run to and fro in the high ways:they shall seem like lamps:they shall shoot like the lightning.
2:6He shall remember his strong men:they shall stumble as they go:they shall make haste to the walls of it,and the defense shall be prepared.
2:7The gates of the rivers shall be opened,and the palace shall melt.
2:8And Huzzab the Queen shall be led away captive, and her maids shall lead her as with the voice of doves, smiting upon their hearts.
2:9But Nineveh is of old like a pool of water:yet they shall flee away. Stand, stand, shall they cry:but none shall look back.
2:10Spoil you the silver, spoil the gold:for there is no end of the store,and glory of all the pleasant vessels.
2:11She is empty and void and waste,and the heart melts,and the knees smite together,and sorrow is in all loins,and the faces of them all gather blackness.
2:12Where is the dwelling of the lions,and the pasture of the young lions? Where the lion,and the lioness walked,and the lion’s cub,and none made them afraid.
2:13The lion did tear in pieces enough for his cubs,and worried for his lioness,and filled his holes with prey,and his dens with, spoil.
2:14Behold, I come to you, saysYHWH of hosts,and I will burn her chariots in the smoke,and the sword shall devour your young lions,and I will cut off your spoil from the earth,and the voice of your messengers shall no more be heard.
Chapter 3
3:1O bloody city, it is all full of lies,and robbery:the prey departs not:
3:2The noise of a whip,and the noise of the moving of the wheels,and the beating of the horses,and the leaping of the chariots.
3:3The horseman lifts up both the bright sword,and the glittering spear,and a multitude is slain,and the dead bodies are many:there is no end of their corpses:they stumble upon their corpses,
3:4Because of the multitude of the nations of the harlot that is beautiful,and is a mistress of witchcraft,and sells the people through her whoredom,and the nations through her witchcrafts.
3:5Behold, I come upon you, saysYHWH of hosts,and will discover your skirts upon your face,and will show the nations your filthiness,and the kingdoms your shame.
3:6And I will cast filth upon you,and make you vile,and will set you as a gazing stock.
3:7And it shall come to pass,that all they that look upon you, shall flee from you,and say, Nineveh is destroyed, who will have pity upon her? Where shall I seek comforters for you?
3:8Are you better than No, which was full of people? That lay in the rivers,and had the waters round about it? Whose ditch was the sea,and her wall was from the sea?
3:9Ethiopia and Egypt were her strength,and there was no end:Put and Lubim were her helpers.
3:10Yet was she carried away,and went into captivity:her young children also were dashed in pieces at the head of all the streets:and they cast lots for her noble men,and all her mighty men were bound in chains.
3:11Also you shall be drunken:you shall hide yourself,and shall seek help because of the enemy.
3:12All your strong cities shall be like trees with the first ripe figs:for if they be shaken, they fall into the mouth of the eater.
3:13Behold, your people within you are women:the gates of your land shall be opened to your enemies,and the fire shall devour your bars.
3:14Draw the waters for the siege:fortify your strong holds:go into the clay,and temper the mortar:make strong brick.
3:15There shall the fire devour you:the sword shall cut you off:it shall eat you up like the locusts, though you be multiplied like the locusts,and multiplied like the grasshopper.
3:16You have multiplied your merchants above the stars of heaven:the locust spoils and flies away.
3:17Your princes are as the grasshoppers,and your captains as the great grasshoppers which remain in the hedges in the cold day:but when the sun rises, they flee away and their place is not known where they are.
3:18Your shepherds do sleep, O King of Asshur:your strong men lie down:your people is scattered upon the mountains,and no man gathers them.
3:19There is no healing of your wound:your plague is grievous:all that hear the report of you, shall clap the hands over you:for upon whom has not your malice passed continually?