Nahum
Bible, King James Version
Nahum
Nah.1
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1] The burden of Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum
the Elkoshite.
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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.
[
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.
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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.
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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.
[
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.
[
7] The LORD is good, a strong hold in the day
of trouble; and he knoweth them that trust in him.
[
8] But with an
overrunning flood he will make an utter end of the place thereof, and darkness
shall pursue his enemies.
[
9] What do ye imagine against the LORD? he
will make an utter end: affliction shall not rise up the second
time.
[
10] For while they be folden together as thorns, and while they
are drunken as drunkards, they shall be devoured as stubble fully
dry.
[
11] There is one come out of thee, that imagineth evil against
the LORD, a wicked counseller.
[
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.
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13] For now will I break his yoke from off thee, and will burst
thy bonds in sunder.
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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.
[
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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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5] He shall recount his worthies: they shall
stumble in their walk; they shall make hast to the wall thereof, and the defence
shall be prepared.
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6] The gates of the rivers shall be opened, and
the palace shall be dissolved.
[
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.
[
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.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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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
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1] Woe to the bloody city! it is all full of lies and
robbery; the prey departeth not;
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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.
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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:
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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.
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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.
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6] And I will cast abominable filth upon thee, and make thee
vile, and will set thee as a gazingstock.
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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?
[
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?
[
9] Ethiopia and Egypt were her strength, and
it was infinite; Put and Lubim were thy helpers.
[
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.
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11] Thou also shalt be
drunken: thou shalt be hid, thou also shalt seek strength because of the
enemy.
[
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.
[
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.
[
14] Draw thee waters for the siege, fortify thy
strong holds: go into clay, and tread the morter, make strong the
brickkiln.
[
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.
[
16] Thou hast
multiplied thy merchants above the stars of heaven: the cankerworm spoileth, and
flieth away.
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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.
[
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.
[
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?
