Old Testament · Prophets
Nahum chapter 1
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of . The book of what Nahum of Elkosh saw.Yahweh is a God who ,
and he pays back.
Yahweh pays back, and .
Yahweh pays back the ones who stand against him,
and he stores up his fury for his enemies.Yahweh is and enormous in strength,
and he will not let the guilty walk free.
His road runs through the whirlwind and the storm,
and the clouds are .He shouts the sea down and it dries;
he empties every river out.
Bashan withers and Carmel withers,
and the flowers of Lebanon go brown.Mountains shake in front of him
and the hills come apart.
The ground heaves up when he comes,
the world and everyone living on it.Who can stand in front of that fury?
Who holds his ground in the heat of that anger?
His rage pours out like fire
and the rock splits open where he walks.Yahweh is good,
on the day the trouble comes.
He knows the ones who .With
he will finish off the ground she stands on,
and he will drive his enemies into the dark.What are you plotting against Yahweh?
He is the one bringing it to an end.
The trouble will not stand up a second time.Tangled together like thorn bushes,
soaked through like men deep in their drink,
they burn off like , all of them.Out of you came the man who schemed harm against Yahweh,
the adviser with .This is what Yahweh says:
However solid their ranks, however many of them,
they will be cut down and gone.
I put you through pain, Judah,
and I will not put you through it again.Now I will break off your neck
and tear the ropes off you.About you, Assyria, Yahweh has given the order:
nothing of your name gets planted again.
Out of the house of your gods I will cut away .
I am digging your grave, because .Look at the mountains:
the feet of ,
calling out that .
Keep your festivals, Judah.
Pay what you promised.
The worthless one will never march through you again.
He is cut off, all of him.