Nahum 1

Translated from the Hebrew of the Westminster Leningrad Codex. Tap a verse to see why it reads as it does. Tap a small letter to read its footnote.

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The jealous and avenging God

¹An oracle about Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum of Elkosh. ²The LORD is a jealous and avenging God; \q the LORD avenges and is full of wrath. \q The LORD takes vengeance on his foes \q and holds his anger against his enemies. ³The LORD is slow to grow angry but great in power, \q and he will never acquit the guilty. \q The LORD makes his way in the whirlwind and the storm, \q and the clouds are the dust of his feet. ⁴He rebukes the sea and makes it dry; \q he dries up every river. \q Bashan and Carmel wilt, \q and the flowers of Lebanon fade. ⁵Before him the mountains quake, \q and the hills melt away. \q The earth heaves at his presence, \q the world and everyone who lives in it. ⁶Who can stand before his indignation? \q Who can endure his burning anger? \q His wrath pours out like fire, \q and the rocks are shattered before him. ⁷The LORD is good, \q a stronghold in the day of trouble; \q he knows those who take refuge in him. ⁸But with a rushing flood \q he will make an end of her place, \q and he will drive his enemies into darkness. ⁹What are you plotting against the LORD? \q He will make a complete end; \q trouble will not rise up a second time. ¹⁰Though they are like a tangle of thorns \q and drunk with their wine, \q they will be burned up \q like dry stubble. ¹¹From you has come one \q who plots evil against the LORD, \q a counselor of wickedness.

No more affliction for Judah

¹²The LORD says this: Though they are at full strength and many, \q they will still be cut down and pass away. \q I have afflicted you, \q but I will afflict you no more. ¹³Now I will break his yoke from off you \q and snap the ropes that bind you. ¹⁴The LORD has given a command about you: \q you will have no more offspring to bear your name. \q I will cut off the carved idol and the cast image from the house of your gods. I will make your grave, for you count for nothing.