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