OET-RV NAH chapter 1

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1 This document is a declaration about Nineveh city which was given to Nahum from Elkosh as a vision.[ref]

1:2 Yahweh’s anger at Nineveh

2 Yahweh is a jealous[fn] God who avenges.

≈Yahweh avenges and is full of anger.

He takes vengeance on his opponents,

≈and he continues to be angry with his enemies.

3 Yahweh is slow to get angry, but very powerful.

He certainly won’t allow guilty people to go unpunished.

He walks among whirlwinds and storms,

≈and clouds are like dust stirred up by his feet.

4 He scolds the ocean and makes it sand.

≈He dries up all the rivers.

Bashan and Karmel wither up.

≈He makes the flowers wilt in Lebanon.

5 The mountains shake when he appears,

≈and the hills melt.

The ground heaves at his presence—

actually the entire world and all its residents.

6 What can withstand his indignation?

≈Who can resist his fierce anger?

His anger is poured out like fire,

and rocks shatter in front of him.

7 Yahweh is good at sheltering us when trouble comes.

≈He recognises those go to him for protection.

8 He’ll completely destroy his opponents with a rushing flood.

≈He will chase his enemies into the darkness.

9 Whatever is plotted against Yahweh,

he’ll completely destroy it.

≈Trouble won’t return a second time.

10 They’ll get tangled up as if in thorns,

and they’ll walk like drunks.

They’ll be burnt up completely like dry stubble.

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1:2 Throughout the Hebrew Scriptures, Yahweh often compares peoples who worship idols (instead of him,the creator) similar to a spouse that has an affair.

OET-RV NAH Chapter 1