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\par }\ChapOne{1}{\PP \VerseOne{1}A revelation about
Nineveh.
The
book
of
the
vision
of
Nahum
the
Elkoshite.
\VS{2}Yahweh\FTNT{*}{{\FR 1:2 }
“Yahweh” is God’s proper Name, sometimes rendered “LORD” (all caps) in other translations.}
is
a
jealous
God\FTNT{†}{{\FR 1:2 }
The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “אֱלֹהִ֑ים” (Elohim).}
and avenges.
Yahweh avenges
and
is full
of
wrath.
Yahweh
takes
vengeance
on
his adversaries,
and
he maintains
wrath against
his
enemies.
\VS{3}Yahweh
is
slow
to
anger,
and
great
in
power,
and
will
by
no
means
leave
the guilty
unpunished.
Yahweh
has
his
way
in
the whirlwind
and
in
the
storm,
and
the
clouds
are
the
dust
of
his
feet.
\VS{4}He
rebukes
the
sea
and
makes
it
dry,
and
dries
up
all
the
rivers.
Bashan
and
Carmel languish.
The
flower
of
Lebanon
languishes.
\VS{5}The
mountains
quake
before
him,
and
the
hills
melt
away.
The
earth trembles
at
his
presence, yes,
the
world,
and
all
who
dwell
in
it.
\VS{6}Who
can
stand
before
his
indignation?
Who
can
endure
the
fierceness
of
his
anger?
His
wrath
is
poured
out
like
fire,
and
the
rocks
are
broken apart
by
him.
\VS{7}Yahweh
is
good,
a
stronghold
in
the
day
of
trouble;
and
he
knows those
who
take
refuge
in
him.
\VS{8}But
with an
overflowing
flood,
he
will
make
a
full
end
of
her
place,
and
will
pursue
his
enemies into
darkness.
\VS{9}What
do
you
plot
against
Yahweh?
He
will
make
a
full
end. Affliction
won’t
rise
up
the second
time.
\VS{10}For
entangled
like thorns,
and drunken
as
with
their
drink,
they
are
consumed utterly
like
dry
stubble.
\VS{11}One
has
gone
out
of
you
who
devises
evil
against
Yahweh,
who counsels
wickedness.
\par }{\PP \VS{12}Yahweh
says: “Though
they
are
in
full strength
and
likewise
many,
even
so
they
will
be
cut down
and
pass
away.
Though
I
have
afflicted
you,
I
will
afflict
you
no
more.
\VS{13}Now
I will
break
his
yoke
from
off
you,
and will
burst
your
bonds
apart.”
\par }{\PP \VS{14}Yahweh
has
commanded
concerning
you: “No
more descendants
will bear
your
name.
Out
of
the
house
of
your
gods,
I
will
cut
off
the engraved
image
and
the molten
image.
I
will
make
your
grave,
for
you
are vile.”
\par }{\PP \VS{15}Behold,\FTNT{‡}{{\FR 1:15 }
“Behold”, from “הִנֵּה”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection.} on the mountains the feet of him who brings good news, who publishes peace! Keep your feasts, Judah! Perform your vows, for the wicked one will no more pass through you. He is utterly cut off.

\par }\Chap{2}{\PP \VerseOne{1}He
who dashes
in pieces
has come
up
against
you.
Keep
the fortress!
Watch
the
way! Strengthen
your waist! Fortify
your power mightily!
\par }{\PP \VS{2}For Yahweh restores
the excellency
of Jacob
as
the excellency
of Israel,
for
the destroyers
have destroyed
them
and ruined
their vine branches.
\par }{\PP \VS{3}The shield
of
his mighty
men
is
made red.
The valiant
men
are
in scarlet.
The chariots flash
with steel
in
the day
of
his preparation,
and
the pine spears
are brandished.
\VS{4}The
chariots rage
in
the streets.
They rush back
and forth
in
the wide ways.
Their appearance
is
like torches.
They run
like
the lightnings.
\VS{5}He summons
his picked troops.
They stumble
on their way.
They
dash
to its wall,
and
the protective shield
is put
in place.
\VS{6}The gates
of
the rivers
are opened,
and
the palace is dissolved.
\VS{7}It
is decreed: she
is uncovered, she
is carried
away;
and
her servants moan
as with
the voice
of doves, beating
on their breasts.
\VS{8}But
Nineveh has
been
from
of old
like
a pool
of water,
yet
they flee
away. “Stop! Stop!”
they
cry,
but no
one looks
back.
\VS{9}Take
the plunder
of silver.
Take
the plunder
of gold,
for
there
is
no end
of treasure,
an abundance
of
every precious
thing.
\VS{10}She
is empty, void,
and waste.
The heart melts,
the knees knock together,
their bodies
and faces
have grown pale.
\VS{11}Where
is
the den
of
the lions,
and
the feeding
place
of
the young lions, where
the lion
and
the lioness walked
with
the lion’s cubs,
and
no
one
made
them afraid?
\VS{12}The
lion tore
in pieces enough
for
his
cubs,
and strangled prey
for
his lionesses,
and filled
his caves
with
the kill
and
his dens
with prey.
\VS{13}“Behold,
I am against
you,” says Yahweh
of Armies, “and
I will burn
her chariots
in
the smoke,
and
the sword will devour
your young
lions;
and
I will cut off
your
prey
from
the earth,
and
the voice
of
your
messengers will no longer be heard.”

\par }\Chap{3}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Woe
to
the
bloody
city!
It
is
all
full
of
lies
and robbery—no end
to
the
prey.
\VS{2}The
noise
of
the
whip,
the
noise
of
the
rattling
of
wheels, prancing
horses,
and
bounding
chariots,
\VS{3}the horseman
charging,
and
the
flashing
sword,
the
glittering
spear,
and
a
multitude
of
slain,
and
a
great heap
of
corpses,
and
there
is
no
end
of
the
bodies.
They
stumble
on
their
bodies
\VS{4}because
of
the
multitude
of
the prostitution
of
the alluring
prostitute,
the
mistress
of witchcraft,
who
sells
nations through her prostitution,
and
families through her witchcraft.
\VS{5}“Behold,
I
am
against
you,”
says
Yahweh
of
Armies, “and
I
will
lift
your
skirts
over
your
face.
I
will
show
the
nations
your
nakedness,
and
the
kingdoms
your
shame.
\VS{6}I will
throw
abominable
filth
on
you
and
make
you vile,
and will
make
you
a
spectacle.
\VS{7}It
will
happen
that
all
those
who
look
at
you
will
flee
from
you,
and
say, ‘Nineveh
is laid
waste!
Who
will
mourn
for
her?’
Where
will
I
seek
comforters
for
you?”
\par }{\PP \VS{8}Are
you
better than No-Amon,\FTNT{*}{{\FR 3:8 }
or, Thebes}
who
was
situated
among
the
rivers,\FTNT{†}{{\FR 3:8 }
or, Nile}
who
had
the
waters
around
her,
whose
rampart
was
the
sea,
and
her
wall
was
of
the
sea?
\VS{9}Cush
and
Egypt
were
her boundless strength.
Put
and
Libya
were
her
helpers.
\VS{10}Yet
was
she
carried
away.
She
went
into
captivity.
Her young
children
also
were
dashed
in
pieces
at
the
head
of
all
the
streets,
and
they
cast
lots
for
her
honorable
men,
and
all
her
great
men
were
bound
in chains.
\VS{11}You
also
will
be drunken.
You
will
be
hidden.
You
also
will
seek
a
stronghold because
of
the
enemy.
\VS{12}All
your
fortresses
will
be
like
fig
trees
with
the first-ripe
figs.
If
they
are
shaken,
they
fall
into
the
mouth
of
the
eater.
\VS{13}Behold,
your troops
among
you
are
women.
The
gates
of
your
land
are set wide
open
to
your
enemies.
The
fire
has
devoured
your
bars.
\par }{\PP \VS{14}Draw
water
for
the
siege.
Strengthen
your
fortresses.
Go
into
the
clay,
and
tread
the mortar.
Make
the
brick kiln
strong.
\VS{15}There
the
fire
will
devour
you.
The
sword
will
cut
you
off.
It
will
devour
you
like
the grasshopper.
Multiply
like
grasshoppers.
Multiply
like
the
locust.
\VS{16}You have
increased
your
merchants
more
than
the
stars
of
the skies.
The grasshopper
strips
and flees away.
\VS{17}Your
guards
are
like
the
locusts,
and
your officials
like
the swarms
of
locusts, which settle
on
the
walls
on
a
cold
day,
but
when
the
sun appears,
they
flee
away,
and
their
place
is
not
known
where
they
are.
\par }{\PP \VS{18}Your
shepherds
slumber,
king
of
Assyria.
Your
nobles
lie
down.
Your
people
are scattered
on
the
mountains,
and
there
is
no
one
to
gather
them.
\VS{19}There
is
no healing
your
wound,
for
your
injury
is fatal.
All
who
hear
the
report
of
you
clap
their
hands
over
you,
for
who
hasn’t felt
your endless
cruelty?
\par }