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\par }\ChapOne{1}{\PP \VerseOne{1}The word about
Nineveh.
The
book
of
the
vision
of
Nahum
the
Elkoshite.
\VS{2}The
Lord
is
a
God
who
takes
care
of
his honour
and gives punishment
for wrong;
the
Lord gives punishment
and
is
angry;
the
Lord sends punishment
on
those
who
are against
him, being
angry
with
his haters.
\VS{3}The
Lord
is
slow
to get
angry
and
great
in
power,
and
will
not
let
the sinner
go
without
punishment:
the
way
of
the
Lord
is
in
the wind
and
the
storm,
and
the
clouds
are
the
dust
of
his
feet.
\VS{4}He says sharp words
to
the
sea
and
makes
it
dry, drying
up
all
the
rivers:
Bashan
is feeble,
and
Carmel,
and
the
flower
of
Lebanon
is without strength.
\VS{5}The
mountains
are shaking
because
of
him,
and
the
hills flowing
away;
the
earth
is falling
to bits
before
him,
the
world
and
all
who
are
in
it.
\VS{6}Who
may keep
his
place
before
his
wrath?
and
who
may undergo
the
heat
of
his passion?
his
wrath
is let loose
like
fire
and
the
rocks
are
broken
open
by
him.
\VS{7}The
Lord
is
good,
a
strong place
in
the
day
of
trouble;
and
he
has
knowledge
of those
who
take
him
for
their safe cover.
\VS{8}But like water
overflowing
he
will take
them
away;
he
will put an
end
to
those
who come up against
him, driving
his haters into
the
dark.
\VS{9}What
are
you designing
against
the
Lord?
he
will put
an
end
to
it:
his haters
will
not
come
up
again
a second
time.
\VS{10}For
though
they
are
like twisted thorns,
and
are overcome
as
with
drink,
they
will
come
to destruction
like stems
of grass
fully
dry.
\VS{11}One
has
gone
out
from
you
who
is designing
evil
against
the
Lord, whose purposes
are
of
no
value.
\VS{12}This
is
what
the
Lord
has
said:
The days
of
my cause against
you
are ended;
they
are
cut
off
and past.
Though
I
have
sent trouble
on
you,
you
will
no
longer
be troubled.
\VS{13}And
now
I will
let
his
yoke
be
broken
off
you,
and
your
chains
be parted.
\VS{14}The
Lord
has
given
an
order
about
you,
that
no
more
of
your
name
are
to
be
planted:
from
the
house
of
your
gods
I
will
have
the pictured
and
metal
images
cut
off;
I
will
make
your last resting-place
a
place
of shame;
for
you
are
completely evil.
\VS{15}See on the mountains the feet of him who comes with good news, giving word of peace! Keep your feasts, O Judah, give effect to your oaths: for the good-for-nothing man will never again go through you; he is completely cut off.

\par }\Chap{2}{\PP \VerseOne{1}A crusher
has come
up
before
your face:
keep
a
good look-out,
let
the
way
be
watched,
make
yourself strong,
let
your power
be greatly
increased.
\VS{2}For
the Lord
will
make good
the vine
of Jacob,
as
well
as
the vine
of Israel:
for
the wasters
have
made
them waste
and
sent destruction
on
the branches
of
their vine.
\VS{3}The body-covers
of
his fighting
men
have
been
made red,
the
men
of war
are clothed
in bright red:
the war-carriages
are
like flames
of fire
in
the day
when
he gets ready,
the horses
are shaking.
\VS{4}The war-carriages
are rushing through
the streets, pushing
against
one
another
in
the wide ways, looking
like
burning lights, running
like thunder-flames.
\VS{5}He takes
the record
of
his great men:
they go falling
on their way;
they go
quickly
to
the wall,
the cover
is made ready.
\VS{6}The river doorways
are forced open,
and
the king's house is flowing away.
\VS{7}And
the queen
is uncovered, she
is taken
away
and
her servant-girls
are weeping like
the sound
of doves, hammering
on their breasts.
\VS{8}But
Nineveh
is
like
a pool
of water whose waters
are flowing
away; Keep
your place,
they
say;
but no
one
is turning
back.
\VS{9}Take silver,
take gold;
for
there
is
no end
to
the store;
take
for yourselves
a weight
of
things
to
be desired.
\VS{10}Everything
has
been
taken
from
her,
all
is
gone, she
has
nothing
more:
the heart
is turned
to water,
the knees
are shaking,
all
are twisted
in pain,
and colour
has
gone
from
all faces.
\VS{11}Where
is
the lions' hole,
the
place where
the young lions got
their food, where
the lion
and
the she-lion
were walking
with
their young, without cause
for fear?
\VS{12}Food enough
for
his
young
and
for
his she-lions
was pulled
down
by
the
lion;
his hole
was full
of flesh
and
his resting-place stored
with meat.
\VS{13}See,
I am against
you, says
the Lord
of armies,
and
I will
have
your war-carriages burned
in
the smoke,
and
your young
lions will be
food
for
the sword:
you will no longer get
your
food
by force on
the earth,
and
the voice
of
your she-lions will be stopped
for ever.

\par }\Chap{3}{\PP \VerseOne{1}A curse
is
on
the
town
of
blood;
it
is
full
of deceit
and
violent acts;
and
there
is
no end
to
the taking
of
life.
\VS{2}The
noise
of
the
whip,
and
the
noise
of thundering
wheels;
horses rushing
and war-carriages
jumping,
\VS{3}Horsemen driving forward,
and
the shining
sword
and
the bright
spear:
and
a
great
number
of
wounded,
and masses
of
dead
bodies;
they
are falling
over
the
bodies
of
the
dead:
\VS{4}Because
of
all
the false ways
of
the loose woman, expert
in attraction
and wise
in secret arts,
who takes
nations
in
the net
of her false ways,
and
families through her secret arts.
\VS{5}See,
I
am
against
you,
says
the
Lord
of
armies,
and
I
will
have
your
skirts pulled
over
your
face,
and
let
the
nations
see
you unclothed,
and
the
kingdoms
your
shame.
\VS{6}I will
make
you completely disgusting
and full
of shame,
and will
put
you
up
to be looked
at
by all.
\VS{7}And
it
will
come
about
that
all
who
see
you
will
go
in flight
from
you
and
say,
Nineveh
is
made
waste:
who
will
be weeping
for
her?
where
am
I
to get
comforters
for
her?
\VS{8}Are
you
better than No-amon,
seated
on
the
Nile
streams,
with
waters
all
round
her;
whose
wall
was
the
sea
and
her earthwork
the
waters?
\VS{9}Ethiopia
was
her strength
and
Egyptians
without number;
Put
and
Lubim
were
her
helpers.
\VS{10}But
even
she
has
been taken
away,
she
has
gone
away
as
a prisoner:
even
her young
children
are smashed
to bits
at
the
top
of
all
the
streets:
the fate
of
her honoured
men
is put
to
the decision
of chance,
and
all
her
great
men
are put
in chains.
\VS{11}And
you
will
be overcome
with wine,
you
will
become feeble;
you
will
be
looking
for
a safe
place
from
those who
are fighting
against
you.
\VS{12}All
your walled
places
will
be
like fig-trees
and
your
people
like
the
first
figs,
falling
at
a
shake
into
the
mouth which
is open
for
them.
\VS{13}See,
the
people
who
are
in
you
are
women;
the doorways
of
your
land
are wide
open
to
your attackers:
the locks
of
your doors
have
been burned
away
in
the
fire.
\VS{14}Get
water
for
the time
when
you
are
shut
in,
make
strong
your towns:
go
into
the potter's earth, stamping
it
down
with
your feet,
make
strong
the brickworks.
\VS{15}There
the
fire
will
make
you waste;
you
will
be
cut
off
by
the
sword:
make
yourself
as great
in number
as
the worms,
as great
in number
as
the
locusts.
\VS{16}Let
your
traders
be
increased
more
than
the
stars
of
heaven:
\VS{17}Your crowned ones
are
like
the
locusts,
and
your scribes
like
the clouds
of insects which
take cover
in
the
walls
on
a
cold
day,
but
when
the
sun
comes
up
they go
in flight,
and
are seen
no
longer
in
their
place.
\VS{18}Sorrow! how
are
the keepers
of
your flock
sleeping, O
king
of
Assyria!
your strong
men
are
at
rest;
your
people
are wandering
on
the
mountains,
and
there
is
no
one
to get
them
together.
\VS{19}Your
pain
may
not
be
made
better;
you
are
wounded
to death:
all
those
hearing
the
news
about
you
will
be waving
their
hands
in
joy
over
you:
for
who
has
not undergone
the weight
of
your evil-doing again
and again?
\par }