Nahum 1

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

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2God is jealous, and the Lord is an avenger; the Lord is avenging with fury; the Lord takes vengeance on His adversaries and drives out His enemies.

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3The Lord is patient and His power is great, but the Lord will not acquit the guilty. His way is in destruction and in a whirlwind; the clouds are the dust of His feet.

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4He threatens the sea and makes it dry, and he dries up all the rivers. Bashan and Carmel have diminished, and the flowers of Lebanon have died out.

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5By Him the mountains are shaken and the hills quake, and the earth heaves at His presence—the whole earth and all who dwell in it.

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6Who can stand before His wrath? Who can withstand the fierceness of His anger? His fury melts away ruling powers, and He shatters the rocks into pieces.

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7The Lord is merciful to those who wait on Him in the day of affliction, and He knows those who reverence Him.

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8For with an overwhelming flood He shall make an end to those rising up, and darkness will pursue His enemies.

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9What do you plot against the Lord? He shall bring about a complete end to it; He will not twice punish with affliction for the same thing,

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10for the enemy shall be laid bare even to the foundations, and consumed as twisted yew, even as fully dried stubble.

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11From out of you shall come forth a plot against the Lord, counseling things hostile to Him.

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12Thus says the Lord who rules over many waters: 'In the same manner you will be torn apart, and the report of you will no longer be heard.

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13And now I will break his rod from off you, and I will break your bonds.'

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14The Lord shall Himself give a command concerning you: 'Your name shall be perpetuated no longer. I will utterly destroy the graven and molten images out of the house of your god. I shall dig your grave, and that quickly!'

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