34:001:001 The burden of Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum the
Elkoshite.
34:001:002 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.
34:001:003 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.
34:001:004 He rebuketh the sea, and maketh it dry, and drieth up all
the rivers: Bashan languisheth, and Carmel, and the flower of Lebanon
languisheth.
34:001:005 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.
34:001:006 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.
34:001:007 The LORD is good, a strong hold in the day of trouble; and
he knoweth them that trust in him.
34:001:008 But with an overrunning flood he will make an utter end of
the place thereof, and darkness shall pursue his enemies.
34:001:009 What do ye imagine against the LORD? he will make an utter
end: affliction shall not rise up the second time.
34:001:010 For while they be folden together as thorns, and while they
are drunken as drunkards, they shall be devoured as stubble fully dry.
34:001:011 There is one come out of thee, that imagineth evil against
the LORD, a wicked counsellor.
34:001:012 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.
34:001:013 For now will I break his yoke from off thee, and will burst
thy bonds in sunder.
34:001:014 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.
34:001:015 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.
34:002:001 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.
34:002:002 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.
34:002:003 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.
34:002:004 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.
34:002:005 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.
34:002:006 The gates of the rivers shall be opened, and the palace
shall be dissolved.
34:002:007 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.
34:002:008 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.
34:002:009 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.
34:002:010 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.
34:002:011 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?
34:002:012 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.
34:002:013 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.
34:003:001 Woe to the bloody city! it is all full of lies and robbery;
the prey departeth not;
34:003:002 The noise of a whip, and the noise of the rattling of the
wheels, and of the pransing horses, and of the jumping chariots.
34:003:003 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:
34:003:004 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.
34:003:005 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.
34:003:006 And I will cast abominable filth upon thee, and make thee
vile, and will set thee as a gazingstock.
34:003:007 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?
34:003:008 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?
34:003:009 Ethiopia and Egypt were her strength, and it was infinite;
Put and Lubim were thy helpers.
34:003:010 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.
34:003:011 Thou also shalt be drunken: thou shalt be hid, thou also
shalt seek strength because of the enemy.
34:003:012 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.
34:003:013 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.
34:003:014 Draw thee waters for the siege, fortify thy strong holds: go
into clay, and tread the morter, make strong the brickkiln.
34:003:015 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.
34:003:016 Thou hast multiplied thy merchants above the stars of
heaven: the cankerworm spoileth, and fleeth away.
34:003:017 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.
34:003:018 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.
34:003:019 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?