LEB NAH Chapter 1

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• 1 The oracle concerning Nineveh—
  • the scroll of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite:

Half-Acrostic: Yahweh Takes Vengeance against His Enemies

• 2 Yahweh is a jealous God and avenging;
  • Yahweh is avenging and full of wrath .[fn]
• Yahweh takes vengeance against his enemies;
  • he rages against his adversaries.
• 3 Yahweh is slow to anger but great in power;
  • he will certainly not allow the guilty to go unpunished.
• He marches[fn] in storm wind and in gale;
  • storm clouds are the dust of his feet.
• 4 He rebukes the sea and he dries up the rivers;
  • he makes all the rivers run dry.
• Bashan and Carmel wither;[fn]
  • the blossom of Lebanon languishes.
• 5 Mountains quake before him;
  • the hills shake apart.[fn]
• The earth heaves before him—
  • the world and all her inhabitants.
• 6 His indignation—who can stand before it?
  • Who can endure his fierce anger ?[fn]
• His wrath is poured out like fire;
  • rocks are shattered before[fn] him.
• 7 Yahweh is good—a refuge in the day of distress;
  • he knows those who take refuge in him.
• 8 But with a rushing torrent he will bring Nineveh to an end;
  • he will chase his enemies into darkness.

Yahweh Will Destroy Nineveh

• 9 What[fn] do you plot against Yahweh?
  • He will completely destroy it ;[fn]
    • trouble will not rise up a second time!
• 10 For like entangled thorns,
  • and like their drink which is drunk,
    • they will be consumed like fully dry chaff.
• 11 From you goes out one who plots evil against Yahweh,
  • one who plans wickedness.

Yahweh Will Deliver Judah and Destroy Nineveh

12 Yahweh says this:

• “Even though they are powerful and likewise many,
  • even so they will be cut off and pass away.
• Though I have afflicted you,[fn]
  • I will afflict you[fn] no longer.
• 13 And now, I will break his yoke from upon you;
  • I will snap your bonds.”

14 Yahweh has commanded concerning you:

• “Your name will no longer be sown.
  • I will cut off the idols and images[fn] from the temple[fn] of your gods;
    • I will send you to the grave[fn] because you are worthless.”
• 15 [fn] Look! On the mountains!
  • The feet of the one who brings good tidings,
    • the one who proclaims peace!
• “Celebrate a festival, O Judah,
  • Fulfill your vows!
• For he will not invade you again;
  • the wicked one is cut off completely!”