The In-Dept Study of the Bible
Nahum 1
1 A revelation about Nineveh. The book
of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite.
2 Yahweh† is a jealous God‡ and avenges.
Yahweh avenges and is full of wrath. Yahweh
takes vengeance on his adversaries,
and he maintains wrath against his enemies.
3 Yahweh is slow to anger, and great in
power, and will by no means leave the
guilty unpunished. Yahweh has his way in
the whirlwind and in the storm, and the
clouds are the dust of his feet.
4 He rebukes the sea and makes it dry,
and dries up all the rivers. Bashan and
Carmel languish. The flower of Lebanon
languishes.
5 The mountains quake before him, and
the hills melt away. The earth trembles at
his presence, yes, the world, and all who
dwell in it.
6 Who can stand before his indignation? Who can
endure the fierceness of his
anger? His wrath is poured out like fire,
and the rocks are broken apart by him.
7 Yahweh is good, a stronghold in the day
of trouble; and he knows those who take
refuge in him.
8 But with an overflowing flood, he will
make a full end of her place, and will
pursue his enemies into darkness.
9 What do you plot against Yahweh? He
will make a full end. Affliction won’t rise
up the second time.
10 For entangled like thorns, and
drunken as with their drink, they are
consumed utterly like dry stubble.
11 One has gone out of you who devises
evil againstYahweh, who counsels wickedness.
12 Yahweh says: “Though they are in full
strength and likewise many, even so they
will be cut down and pass away. Though
I have afflicted you, I will afflict you no
more.
13 Now I will break his yoke from off you,
and will burst your bonds apart.”
14 Yahweh has commanded concerning
you: “No more descendants will bear your
name. Out of the house of your gods, I will
cut off the engraved image and the molten
image. I will make your grave, for you are
vile.”
15 Behold,§ on the mountains the feet of
him who brings good news, who publishes
peace! Keep your feasts, Judah! Perform
your vows,for the wicked one willnomore
pass through you. He is utterly cut off.