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NAHUM ยท Chapter 1
1:1 The burden of Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite.
1:2 God is jealous, and the LORD revenges; the LORD revenges, and is
furious; the LORD will take vengeance on his adversaries, and he reserves
wrath for his enemies.
1:3 The LORD is slow to anger, and great in power, and will not at
all acquit the wicked: the LORD has his way in the whirlwind and in the
storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet.
1:4 He rebukes the sea, and makes it dry, and dries up all the rivers:
Bashan languishes, and Carmel, and the flower of Lebanon languishes.
1:5 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.
1:6 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.
1:7 The LORD is good, a strong hold in the day of trouble; and he knows
them that trust in him.
1:8 But with a surpassing flood he will make an utter end of the place
thereof, and darkness shall pursue his enemies.
1:9 What do all of you imagine against the LORD? he will make an utter
end: affliction shall not rise up the second time.
1:10 For while they be folded together as thorns, and while they are
drunken as drunkards, they shall be devoured as stubble fully dry.
1:11 There is one come out of you, that imagines evil against the LORD,
a wicked counsellor.
1:12 Thus says 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 you, I will afflict you no more.
1:13 For now will I break his yoke from off you, and will burst your
bonds in two.
1:14 And the LORD 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 image and the molten image: I will make your grave; for you are
vile.
1:15 Behold upon the mountains the feet of him that brings good tidings,
that publishes peace! O Judah, keep your solemn feasts, perform your vows:
for the wicked shall no more pass through you; he is utterly cut off.
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