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« Nahum 1 »
King James Bible
The Burden of Nineveh
(Jonah 1:1-3)
1The burden of Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite.
2God [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.
3The 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.
4He rebuketh the sea, and maketh it dry, and drieth up all the rivers: Bashan languisheth, and
Carmel, and the flower of Lebanon languisheth.
5The mountains quake at him, and the hills melt, and the earth is burned at his presence, yea, the
world, and all that dwell therein.
6Who 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.
7The LORD [is] good, a strong hold in the day of trouble; and he knoweth them that trust in him.
8But with an overrunning flood he will make an utter end of the place thereof, and darkness shall
pursue his enemies.
9What do ye imagine against the LORD? he will make an utter end: affliction shall not rise up the
second time.
10For while [they be] folden together [as] thorns, and while they are drunken [as] drunkards, they
shall be devoured as stubble fully dry.
11There is [one] come out of thee, that imagineth evil against the LORD, a wicked counseller.
12Thus 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.
13For now will I break his yoke from off thee, and will burst thy bonds in sunder.
14And 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.
15Behold 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.

« Nahum 2 »
King James Bible
The Overthrow of Nineveh
1He that dasheth in pieces is come up before thy face: keep the munition, watch the way, make
[thy] loins strong, fortify [thy] power mightily.
2For 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.
3The 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.
4The 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.
5He shall recount his worthies: they shall stumble in their walk; they shall make haste to the wall
thereof, and the defence shall be prepared.
6The gates of the rivers shall be opened, and the palace shall be dissolved.
7And 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.
8But Nineveh [is] of old like a pool of water: yet they shall flee away. Stand, stand, [shall they cry];
but none shall look back.
9Take 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.
10She 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.
11Where [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?
12The 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.
13Behold, 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.
« Nahum 3 »
King James Bible
Judgment against Nineveh
1Woe to the bloody city! it [is] all full of lies [and] robbery; the prey departeth not;
2The noise of a whip, and the noise of the rattling of the wheels, and of the pransing horses, and of
the jumping chariots.
3The 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:
4Because 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.
5Behold, 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.
6And I will cast abominable filth upon thee, and make thee vile, and will set thee as a gazingstock.
7And 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?
8Art 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?
9Ethiopia and Egypt [were] her strength, and [it was] infinite; Put and Lubim were thy helpers.
10Yet [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.
11Thou also shalt be drunken: thou shalt be hid, thou also shalt seek strength because of the
enemy.
12All 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.
13Behold, 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.
14Draw thee waters for the siege, fortify thy strong holds: go into clay, and tread the morter, make
strong the brickkiln.
15There 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.
16Thou hast multiplied thy merchants above the stars of heaven: the cankerworm spoileth, and
flieth away.
17Thy 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].
18Thy 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?