Bible Nahum

THE BOOK OF
NAHUM
CHAPTER 1 9 What do you plot against
1 An oracle concerning the LORD? He will make a full
Nin'eveh. The book of the vi- end; he will not take
sion of Nahum of Elkosh. vengeance twice on his foes.
2 The LORD is a jealous God 10 Like entangled thorns they
and avenging, the LORD is are consumed, like dry stub-
avenging and wrathful; the ble.
LORD takes vengeance on his 11 Did one not come out from
adversaries and keeps wrath you, who plotted evil against
for his enemies. the LORD, and counseled vil-
3 The LORD is slow to anger lainy?
and of great might, and the 12 Thus says the LORD,
LORD will by no means clear "Though they be strong and
the guilty. His way is in whirl- many, they will be cut off and
wind and storm, and the pass away. Though I have af-
clouds are the dust of his feet. flicted you, I will afflict you no
4 He rebukes the sea and more.
makes it dry, he dries up all 13 And now I will break his
the rivers; Bashan and Carmel yoke from off you and will
wither, the bloom of Lebanon burst your bonds asunder."
fades. 14 The LORD has given com-
5 The mountains quake be- mandment about you: "No
fore him, the hills melt; the more shall your name be per-
earth is laid waste before him, petuated; from the house of
the world and all that dwell your gods I will cut off the
therein. graven image and the molten
6 Who can stand before his image. I will make your grave,
indignation? Who can endure for you are vile."
the heat of his anger? His 15 Behold, on the mountains
wrath is poured out like fire, the feet of him who brings
and the rocks are broken good tidings, who proclaims
asunder by him. peace! Keep your feasts, O Ju-
7 The LORD is good, a strong- dah, fulfil your vows, for never
hold in the day of trouble; he again shall the wicked come
knows those who take refuge against you, he is utterly cut
in him. off.
8 But with an overflowing
flood he will make a full end CHAPTER 2
of his adversaries, and will 1 The shatterer has come up
pursue his enemies into dark- against you. Man the ram-
ness. parts; watch the road; gird
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your loins; collect all your 12 The lion tore enough for
strength. his whelps and strangled prey
2 (For the LORD is restoring for his lionesses; he filled his
the majesty of Jacob as the caves with prey and his dens
majesty of Israel, for plunder- with torn flesh.
ers have stripped them and 13 Behold, I am against you,
ruined their branches.) says the LORD of hosts, and I
3 The shield of his mighty will burn your chariots in
men is red, his soldiers are smoke, and the sword shall
clothed in scarlet. The chari- devour your young lions; I will
ots flash like flame when mus- cut off your prey from the
tered in array; the chargers earth, and the voice of your
prance. messengers shall no more be
4 The chariots rage in the heard.
streets, they rush to and fro
through the squares; they CHAPTER 3
gleam like torches, they dart 1 Woe to the bloody city, all
like lightning. full of lies and booty — no end
5 The officers are summoned, to the plunder!
they stumble as they go, they 2 The crack of whip, and rum-
hasten to the wall, the man- ble of wheel, galloping horse
telet is set up. and bounding chariot!
6 The river gates are opened, 3 Horsemen charging, flash-
the palace is in dismay; ing sword and glittering spear,
7 its mistress is stripped, she hosts of slain, heaps of
is carried off, her maidens corpses, dead bodies without
lamenting, moaning like end — they stumble over the
doves, and beating their bodies!
breasts. 4 And all for the countless
8 Nin'eveh is like a pool harlotries of the harlot, grace-
whose waters run away. "Halt! ful and of deadly charms, who
Halt!" they cry; but none turns betrays nations with her har-
back. lotries, and peoples with her
9 Plunder the silver, plunder charms.
the gold! There is no end of 5 Behold, I am against you,
treasure, or wealth of every says the LORD of hosts, and
precious thing. will lift up your skirts over
10 Desolate! Desolation and your face; and I will let na-
ruin! Hearts faint and knees tions look on your nakedness
tremble, anguish is on all and kingdoms on your shame.
loins, all faces grow pale! 6 I will throw filth at you and
11 Where is the lions' den, treat you with contempt, and
the cave of the young lions, make you a gazingstock.
where the lion brought his 7 And all who look on you will
prey, where his cubs were, shrink from you and say,
with none to disturb? Wasted is Nin'eveh; who will
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NAHUM
bemoan her? whence shall I grasshoppers, your scribes

seek comforters for her? like clouds of locusts settling
8 Are you better than Thebes on the fences in a day of cold
that sat by the Nile, with wa- — when the sun rises, they fly
ter around her, her rampart a away; no one knows where
sea, and water her wall? they are.
9 Ethiopia was her strength, 18 Your shepherds are
Egypt too, and that without asleep, O king of Assyria; your
limit; Put and the Libyans nobles slumber. Your people
were her helpers. are scattered on the moun-
10 Yet she was carried away, tains with none to gather
she went into captivity; her them.
little ones were dashed in 19 There is no assuaging
pieces at the head of every your hurt, your wound is
street; for her honored men grievous. All who hear the
lots were cast, and all her news of you clap their hands
great men were bound in over you. For upon whom has
chains. not come your unceasing evil?
11 You also will be drunken,
you will be dazed; you will
seek a refuge from the enemy.
12 All your fortresses are like
fig trees with first-ripe figs —
if shaken they fall into the
mouth of the eater.
13 Behold, your troops are
women in your midst. The
gates of your land are wide
open to your foes; fire has de-
voured your bars.
14 Draw water for the siege,
strengthen your forts; go into
the clay, tread the mortar,
take hold of the brick mold!
15 There will the fire devour
you, the sword will cut you off.
It will devour you like the lo-
cust. Multiply yourselves like
the locust, multiply like the
grasshopper!
16 You increased your mer-
chants more than the stars of
the heavens. The locust
spreads its wings and flies
away.
17 Your princes are like

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