Nahum Chapter 1
1:1 | The burden of Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite. |
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 ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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 ![]() ![]() |
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 ![]() ![]() |
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 ![]() ![]() |
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 ![]() |
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 ![]() ![]() |
1:15 | Behold upon the mountains the ![]() |