NAH 1:1  The burden of Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite.

NAH 1:2  God is jealous, and the LORD revengeth; the LORD revengeth, and is
 furious; the LORD will take vengeance on his adversaries, and he reserveth
 wrath for his enemies.

NAH 1:3  The LORD is slow to anger, and great in power, and will not at all
 acquit the wicked: the LORD hath his way in the whirlwind and in the
 storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet.

NAH 1:4  He rebuketh the sea, and maketh it dry, and drieth up all the rivers:
 Bashan languisheth, and Carmel, and the flower of Lebanon languisheth.

NAH 1:5  The mountains quake at him, and the hills melt, and the earth is
 burned at his presence, yea, the world, and all that dwell therein.

NAH 1:6  Who can stand before his indignation? and who can abide in the
 fierceness of his anger? his fury is poured out like fire, and the rocks are
 thrown down by him.

NAH 1:7  The LORD is good, a strong hold in the day of trouble; and he knoweth
 them that trust in him.

NAH 1:8  But with an overrunning flood he will make an utter end of the place
 thereof, and darkness shall pursue his enemies.

NAH 1:9  What do ye imagine against the LORD? he will make an utter end:
 affliction shall not rise up the second time.

NAH 1:10  For while they be folden together as thorns, and while they are
 drunken as drunkards, they shall be devoured as stubble fully dry.

NAH 1:11  There is one come out of thee, that imagineth evil against the LORD,
 a wicked counsellor.

NAH 1:12  Thus saith the LORD; Though they be quiet, and likewise many, yet
 thus shall they be cut down, when he shall pass through. Though I have
 afflicted thee, I will afflict thee no more.

NAH 1:13  For now will I break his yoke from off thee, and will burst thy bonds
 in sunder.

NAH 1:14  And the LORD hath given a commandment concerning thee, that no more
 of thy name be sown: out of the house of thy gods will I cut off the graven
 image and the molten image: I will make thy grave; for thou art vile.

NAH 1:15  Behold upon the mountains the feet of him that bringeth good tidings,
 that publisheth peace! O Judah, keep thy solemn feasts, perform thy vows: for
 the wicked shall no more pass through thee; he is utterly cut off.

NAH 2:1  He that dasheth in pieces is come up before thy face: keep the
 munition, watch the way, make thy loins strong, fortify thy power mightily.

NAH 2:2  For the LORD hath turned away the excellency of Jacob, as the
 excellency of Israel: for the emptiers have emptied them out, and marred
 their vine branches.

NAH 2:3  The shield of his mighty men is made red, the valiant men are in
 scarlet: the chariots shall be with flaming torches in the day of his
 preparation, and the fir trees shall be terribly shaken.

NAH 2:4  The chariots shall rage in the streets, they shall justle one against
 another in the broad ways: they shall seem like torches, they shall run like
 the lightnings.

NAH 2:5  He shall recount his worthies: they shall stumble in their walk; they
 shall make haste to the wall thereof, and the defence shall be prepared.

NAH 2:6  The gates of the rivers shall be opened, and the palace shall be
 dissolved.

NAH 2:7  And Huzzab shall be led away captive, she shall be brought up, and her
 maids shall lead her as with the voice of doves, tabering upon their breasts.

NAH 2:8  But Nineveh is of old like a pool of water: yet they shall flee away.
 Stand, stand, shall they cry; but none shall look back.

NAH 2:9  Take ye the spoil of silver, take the spoil of gold: for there is none
 end of the store and glory out of all the pleasant furniture.

NAH 2:10  She is empty, and void, and waste: and the heart melteth, and the
 knees smite together, and much pain is in all loins, and the faces of them
 all gather blackness.

NAH 2:11  Where is the dwelling of the lions, and the feedingplace of the young
 lions, where the lion, even the old lion, walked, and the lion's whelp, and
 none made them afraid?

NAH 2:12  The lion did tear in pieces enough for his whelps, and strangled for
 his lionesses, and filled his holes with prey, and his dens with ravin.

NAH 2:13  Behold, I am against thee, saith the LORD of hosts, and I will burn
 her chariots in the 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.

NAH 3:1  Woe to the bloody city! it is all full of lies and robbery; the prey
 departeth not;

NAH 3:2  The noise of a whip, and the noise of the rattling of the wheels, and
 of the pransing horses, and of the jumping chariots.

NAH 3:3  The horseman lifteth up both the bright sword and the glittering
 spear: and there is a multitude of slain, and a great number of carcases; and
 there is none end of their corpses; they stumble upon their corpses:

NAH 3:4  Because of the multitude of the whoredoms of the wellfavoured
 harlot, the mistress of witchcrafts, that selleth nations through her
 whoredoms, and families through her witchcrafts.

NAH 3:5  Behold, I am against thee, saith the LORD of hosts; and I will
 discover thy skirts upon thy face, and I will shew the nations thy
 nakedness, and the kingdoms thy shame.

NAH 3:6  And I will cast abominable filth upon thee, and make thee vile, and
 will set thee as a gazingstock.

NAH 3:7  And it shall come to pass, that all they that look upon thee shall
 flee from thee, and say, Nineveh is laid waste: who will bemoan her? whence
 shall I seek comforters for thee?

NAH 3:8  Art thou better than populous No, that was situate among the rivers,
 that had the waters round about it, whose rampart was the sea, and her wall
 was from the sea?

NAH 3:9  Ethiopia and Egypt were her strength, and it was infinite; Put and
 Lubim were thy helpers.

NAH 3:10  Yet was she carried away, she went into captivity: her young children
 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 in chains.

NAH 3:11  Thou also shalt be drunken: thou shalt be hid, thou also shalt seek
 strength because of the enemy.

NAH 3:12  All thy strong holds shall be like fig trees with the firstripe figs:
 if they be shaken, they shall even fall into the mouth of the eater.

NAH 3:13  Behold, thy people in the midst of thee are women: the gates of thy
 land shall be set wide open unto thine enemies: the fire shall devour thy
 bars.

NAH 3:14  Draw thee waters for the siege, fortify thy strong holds: go into
 clay, and tread the morter, make strong the brickkiln.

NAH 3:15  There shall the fire devour thee; the sword shall cut thee off, it
 shall eat thee up like the cankerworm: make thyself many as the cankerworm,
 make thyself many as the locusts.

NAH 3:16  Thou hast multiplied thy merchants above the stars of heaven: the
 cankerworm spoileth, and fleeth away.

NAH 3:17  Thy crowned are as the locusts, and thy captains as the great
 grasshoppers, which camp in the hedges in the cold day, but when the sun
 ariseth they flee away, and their place is not known where they are.

NAH 3:18  Thy shepherds slumber, O king of Assyria: thy nobles shall dwell
 in the dust: thy people is scattered upon the mountains, and no man gathereth
 them.

NAH 3:19  There is no healing of thy bruise; thy wound is grievous: all that
 hear the bruit of thee shall clap the hands over thee: for upon whom hath not
 thy wickedness passed continually?

