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\par }\ChapOne{1}{\PP \VerseOne{1}The
burden
of
Nineveh.
The
book
of
the
vision
of
Nahum
the
Elkoshite.
\VS{2}A
jealous
and
avenging
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El|strong="H0410"}God
is
Jehovah:
an
avenger
is
Jehovah,
and full
of
fury:
Jehovah taketh
vengeance
on
his adversaries,
and
he reserveth [wrath]
for
his
enemies.
\VS{3}Jehovah
is
slow
to
anger,
and
great
in
power,
and doth
not
at
all
clear [the guilty]:
Jehovah, —
his
way
is
in
the whirlwind
and
in
the
storm,
and
the
clouds
are
the
dust
of
his
feet.
\VS{4}He rebuketh
the
sea,
and maketh
it
dry,
and drieth
up
all
the
rivers:
Bashan languisheth,
and
Carmel,
and
the
flower
of
Lebanon languisheth.
\VS{5}The
mountains
quake
before
him,
and
the
hills
melt,
and
the
earth
is
upheaved
at
his
presence,
and
the
world,
and
all
that
dwell therein.
\VS{6}Who
shall
stand
before
his
indignation?
and
who
shall abide
in
the
fierceness
of
his
anger?
His
fury
is
poured
out
like
fire,
and
the
rocks
are
broken asunder
by
him.
\VS{7}Jehovah
is
good,
a
stronghold
in
the
day
of
trouble;
and
he knoweth
them
that trust
in
him.
\VS{8}But
with an overrunning
flood
he
will
make
a
full
end
of
the
place thereof,
and
darkness shall
pursue
his
enemies.
\VS{9}What
do ye imagine
against
Jehovah?
He
will
make
a
full
end:
trouble
shall
not
rise
up
the second
time.
\VS{10}Though
they
be
tangled together [as] thorns,
and
be
as
drenched
from
their
drink,
they shall
be
devoured
as
dry
stubble, completely.
\VS{11}Out
of thee
is
gone
forth
one
that imagineth
evil
against
Jehovah,
a
wicked counsellor.
\VS{12}Thus saith
Jehovah:
Though
they
be
complete
in number,
and
many
as
they
be,
even
so
shall
they
be
cut down,
and
he
shall
pass
away;
and
though
I
have
afflicted thee,
I
will
afflict thee
no
more.
\VS{13}And
now will
I
break
his
yoke
from
off thee,
and will
burst thy
bonds asunder.
\VS{14}And
Jehovah hath
given
commandment
concerning thee,
that
no
more
of thy
name
be
sown:
out
of
the
house
of thy
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Elohim|strong="H0430"}god
will
I
cut
off
the
graven
image,
and
the molten
image:
I
will
prepare thy
grave;
for thou art vile.
\VS{15}Behold upon the mountains the feet of him that bringeth glad tidings, that publisheth peace! Celebrate thy feasts, Judah, perform thy vows: for the wicked one shall no more pass through thee; he is utterly cut off.

\par }\Chap{2}{\PP \VerseOne{1}He
that dasheth
in pieces
is come
up
against thy face:
keep
the fortress,
watch
the
way,
make [thy] loins strong, fortify [thy] power mightily.
\VS{2}For Jehovah hath
brought
again
the glory
of Jacob,
as
the glory
of Israel;
for
the wasters
have wasted
them,
and marred
their vine-branches.
\VS{3}The shield
of
his mighty
men
is
made red,
the valiant
men
are
in scarlet:
the chariots [glitter]
with
the sheen
of steel,
in
the day
of
his preparation,
and
the spears
are brandished.
\VS{4}The
chariots rush madly
in
the streets,
they justle
one
against
another
in
the broad ways:
the appearance
of
them
is
like torches,
they run
like lightnings.
\VS{5}He bethinketh
him
of
his nobles:
they stumble
in their march;
they make haste
to
the wall thereof,
and
the shelter
is prepared.
\VS{6}The gates
of
the rivers
are opened,
and
the palace melteth away.
\VS{7}And
it
is decreed: she
shall be uncovered, she
shall be led
away,
and
her maids
shall moan
as with
the voice
of doves, drumming upon their breasts.
\VS{8}Nineveh hath
been
like
a pool
of water,
since
the day she existed,
yet
they flee
away. ...Stand!
Stand!
But none looketh
back.
\VS{9}Plunder
the silver, plunder
the gold;
for
there
is
no end
of
the splendid store
of
all precious vessels.
\VS{10}She
is empty,
and void,
and waste;
and
the heart melteth,
and
the knees smite together,
and writhing pain
is
in
all loins,
and
all
their faces grow pale.
\VS{11}Where
is [now]
the den
of
the lions,
and
the feeding-place
of
the young lions, where
the lion,
the lioness, [and]
the lion's whelp walked,
and
none
made
them afraid?
\VS{12}The
lion tore
in pieces enough
for
his whelps,
and strangled
for
his lionesses,
and filled
his holes
with prey,
and
his dens
with ravin.
\VS{13}Behold,
I am against thee, saith Jehovah
of hosts:
and
I will burn
her chariots into smoke;
and
the sword shall devour thy young
lions,
and
I will cut off thy
prey
from
the earth;
and
the voice
of thy
messengers shall no more be heard.

\par }\Chap{3}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Woe
to
the
bloody
city!
It
is
all
full
of
lies [and] violence;
the
prey departeth
not.
\VS{2}The crack
of
the
whip,
and
the
noise
of
the
rattling
of
the
wheels,
and
of
the prancing
horses,
and
of
the
bounding
chariots!
\VS{3}The horseman springing
up,
and
the glitter
of
the
sword,
and
the
flash
of
the
spear,
and
a
multitude
of
slain,
and
a
mass
of carcases,
and
no
end
of
corpses:
they
stumble
over
their
corpses.
\VS{4}—
Because
of
the
multitude
of
the fornications
of
the well-favoured
harlot,
mistress
of
sorceries,
that selleth
nations through her fornications,
and
families through her
sorceries,
\VS{5}behold,
I
am
against thee, saith
Jehovah
of
hosts;
and
I
will
uncover thy
skirts
upon thy
face,
and
I
will shew
the
nations thy
nakedness,
and
the
kingdoms thy
shame.
\VS{6}And
I will
cast
abominable
filth
upon thee,
and
make thee vile,
and will
set thee
as
a gazing stock.
\VS{7}And
it
shall
come
to
pass, [that]
all
they
that
see thee
shall
flee
from thee,
and
shall
say,
Nineveh
is laid
waste!
Who
will bemoan
her? whence
shall
I
seek
comforters
for thee?
\VS{8}Art thou
better than No-Amon,
that
was situate
among
the
rivers, [that
had]
the
waters
round
about
her,
whose
rampart
was
the
sea, [and]
of
the
sea
was
her
wall?
\VS{9}Ethiopia
was
her strength,
and
Egypt,
and
it
was infinite; Phut
and
the
Libyans
were
her
helpers.
\VS{10}She
too
was
carried
away,
she
went
into
captivity:
her
infants
also
were
dashed
in
pieces,
at
the
top
of
all
the
streets;
and
they
cast
lots
for
her honourable
men,
and
all
her
great
men
were
bound
with chains.
\VS{11}Thou
also shalt
be drunken: thou shalt
be hid; thou
also shalt
seek
a
refuge
from
the
enemy.
\VS{12}All thy
strongholds
are [like] fig-trees
with
the first-ripe
figs:
if
they
be
shaken,
they
even
fall
into
the
mouth
of
the
eater.
\VS{13}Behold, thy
people
in
the
midst
of thee
are [as]
women:
the
gates
of thy
land
are set wide
open unto thine
enemies;
the
fire devoureth thy
bars.
\VS{14}Draw thee
water
for
the
siege,
strengthen thy
fortresses;
go
into
the
clay,
and
tread
the mortar,
make
strong
the brick-kiln.
\VS{15}There
shall
the
fire
devour thee;
the
sword
shall
cut thee
off;
it
shall
devour thee
like
the cankerworm.
Make thyself many
as
the cankerworm,
make thyself many
as
the
locust.
\VS{16}Thou hast
multiplied thy
merchants
more
than
the
stars
of
the
heavens;
the cankerworm spreadeth himself out
and flieth away.
\VS{17}Thy
chosen men
are
as
the
locusts,
and thy captains
as swarms
of
grasshoppers, which
camp
in
the hedges
in
the
cold
day:
when
the
sun ariseth
they
flee
away,
and
their
place
is
not
known
where
they
are.
\VS{18}Thy
shepherds
slumber, O
king
of
Assyria; thy
nobles
lie still; thy
people
are scattered
upon
the
mountains,
and
no
man gathereth
them.
\VS{19}There
is
no healing
of thy breach; thy
wound
is grievous;
all
that
hear
the
report
of thee
clap
the
hands
over thee;
for
upon
whom hath
not thy
wickedness
passed
continually?
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