Nahum Chapter 1

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

2God is jealous, and the Lord revengeth: the Lord revengeth: even the Lord of anger, the Lord will take vengeance on his adversaries, and he reserveth wrath for his enemies.

3The Lord is slow to anger, but he is great in power, and will not surely clear the wicked: the Lord hath his way in the whirlwind, and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet.

4He rebuketh the sea, and drieth it, and he drieth up all the rivers: Bashan is wasted and Carmel, and the flower of Lebanon is wasted.

5The mountains tremble for him, and the hills melt, and the earth is burnt at his sight, yea the world, and all that dwell therein.

6Who can stand before his wrath? or who can abide in the fierceness of his wrath? his wrath is poured out like fire, and the rocks are broken by him.

7The Lord is good and as a stronghold in the day of trouble, and he knoweth them that trust in him.

8But passing over as with a flood, he will utterly destroy the place thereof, and darkness shall pursue his enemies.

9What do ye imagine against the Lord? he will make an utter destruction: affliction shall not rise up the second time.

10For he shall come as unto thorns folden one in another, and as unto drunkards in their drunken-ness: they shall be devoured as stubble fully dried.

11There cometh one out of thee that imagineth evil against the Lord, even a wicked counselor.

12Thus saith the Lord, Though they be quiet, and also many, yet thus shall they be cut off when he shall pass by: though I have afflicted thee, I will afflict thee no more.

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

14And 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, and the molten image: I will make it thy grave for thee, for thou art vile.

15Behold upon the mountains the feet of him that declareth, and 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.