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Chapter 1
1 The burden of Ninive. The book of the vision of Nahum the Elcesite.
2 The Lord is a jealous God, and a revenger: the Lord is a revenger, and has wrath: the Lord takes vengeance on his adversaries, and he is angry with his enemies.
3 The Lord is patient, and great in power, and will not cleanse and acquit the guilty. The Lord's ways are in a tempest, and a whirlwind, and clouds are the dust of his feet.
4 He rebukes the sea, and dries it up: and brings all the rivers to be a desert. Basan languishes and Carmel: and the dower of Libanus fades away.
5 The mountains tremble at him, and the hills are made desolate: and the earth has quaked at his presence, and the world, and all that dwell therein.
6 Who can stand before the face of his indignation? and who shall resist in the fierceness of his anger? his indignation is poured out like fire: and the rocks are melted by him.
7 The Lord is good and gives strength in the day of trouble: and know them that hope in him.
8 But with a flood that passes by, he will make an utter end of the place thereof: and darkness shall pursue his enemies.
9 What do ye devise against the Lord? he will make an utter end: there shall not rise a double affliction.
10 For as thorns embrace one another: so while they are feasting and drinking together, they shall be consumed as stubble that is fully dry.
11 Out of you shall come forth one that imagines evil against the Lord, contriving treachery in his mind.
12 Thus said the Lord: Though they were perfect: and many of them so, yet thus shall they be cut off, and he shall pass: I have afflicted you, and I will afflict you no more.
13 And now I will break in pieces his rod with which he struck your back, and I will burst your bonds asunder.
14 And the Lord will give a commandment concerning you, that no more of your name shall be sown: I will destroy the graven and molten thing out of the house of your God, I will make it your grave, for you are disgraced.
15 Behold upon the mountains the feet of him that brings good tidings, and that preaches peace: O Juda, keep your festivals, and pay your vows: for Belial shall no more pass through you again, he is utterly cut off.