SPACE 1/SPACE - Library 1 - Volume 1.iso/misc~1/343/nahum

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                        NAHUM 1
 1:1  The burden of Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum
the Elkohshite.
 1:2  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.
 1:3  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.
 1:4  He rebuketh the sea, and maketh it dry, and drieth up all
the rivers: Bashan languisheth, and Carmel, and the flower of
Lebanon languisheth.
 1:5  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.
 1:6  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.
 1:7  The LORD [is] good, a strong hold in the day of trouble;
and he knoweth them that trust in him.
 1:8  But with an overrunning flood he will make an utter end
of the place thereof, and darkness shall pursue his enemies.
 1:9  What do ye imagine against the LORD? he will make an
utter end: affliction shall not rise up the second time.
 1:10  For while [they be] folden together [as] thorns, and
while they are drunken [as] drunkards, they shall be devoured
as stubble fully dry.
 1:11  There is [one] come out of thee, that imagineth evil
against the LORD, a wicked counsellor.
 1:12  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.
 1:13  For now will I break his yoke from off thee, and will
burst thy bonds in sunder.
 1:14  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.
 1:15  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.

                        NAHUM 2
 2:1  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.
 2:2  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.
 2:3  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.
 2:4  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.
 2:5  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.
 2:6  The gates of the rivers shall be opened, and the palace
shall be dissolved.
 2:7  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.
 2:8  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.
 2:9  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.
 2:10  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.
 2:11  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?
 2:12  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.
 2:13  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.

                        NAHUM 3
 3:1  Woe to the bloody city! it [is] all full of lies [and]
robbery; the prey departeth not;
 3:2  The noise of a whip, and the noise of the rattling of the
wheels, and of the prancing horses, and of the jumping
chariots.
 3:3  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:
 3:4  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.
 3:5  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.
 3:6  And I will cast abominable filth upon thee, and make thee
vile, and will set thee as a gazingstock.
 3:7  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?
 3:8  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?
 3:9  Ethiopia and Egypt [were] her strength, and [it was]
infinite; Put and Lubim were thy helpers.
 3:10  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.
 3:11  Thou also shalt be drunken: thou shalt be hid, thou also
shalt seek strength because of the enemy.
 3:12  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.
 3:13  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.
 3:14  Draw thee waters for the siege, fortify thy strong
holds: go into clay, and tread the mortar, make strong the
brickkiln.
 3:15  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.
 3:16  Thou hast multiplied thy merchants above the stars of
heaven: the cankerworm spoileth, and fleeth away.
 3:17  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].
 3:18  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].
 3:19  [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?