MLV(i)
1 The burden of Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite.
2 Jehovah is a jealous God and avenges. Jehovah avenges and is full of wrath. Jehovah takes vengeance on his adversaries and he reserves wrath for his enemies. 3 Jehovah is slow to anger and great in power and will by no means clear the guilty.
Jehovah 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 languishes and Carmel and the flower of Lebanon languishes. 5 The mountains quake at him and the hills melt and the earth is upheaved at his presence. Yes, the world and all who dwell in it.
6 Who can stand before his indignation? And who can abide in the fierceness of his anger? His wrath is poured out like fire and the rocks are broken apart by him.
7 Jehovah is good, a stronghold in the day of trouble and he knows those who take refuge in him. 8 But with an over running flood he will make a full end of her place and will pursue his enemies into darkness.
9 What do you* devise against Jehovah? He will make a full end. Affliction will not rise up the second time. 10 For entangled like thorns and drunken as with their drink, they are consumed utterly as dry stubble. 11 He has gone forth out of you, who devises evil against Jehovah, who counsels wickedness.
12 Jehovah says thus: Though they are in full strength and likewise many, even so they will be cut down. And he will pass away. Though I have afflicted you, I will afflict you no more. 13 And now I will break his yoke from you and will burst your bonds apart.
14 And Jehovah has given commandment concerning you, that no more of your name be sown. Out of the house of your gods I will cut off the graven image and the molten image. I will make your grave, for you are vile.
15 Behold, upon the mountains the feet of him who brings good news, who proclaims peace! Keep your feasts, O Judah. Perform your vows, for the wicked one will no more pass through you. He is utterly cut off.
2 Jehovah is a jealous God and avenges. Jehovah avenges and is full of wrath. Jehovah takes vengeance on his adversaries and he reserves wrath for his enemies. 3 Jehovah is slow to anger and great in power and will by no means clear the guilty.
Jehovah 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 languishes and Carmel and the flower of Lebanon languishes. 5 The mountains quake at him and the hills melt and the earth is upheaved at his presence. Yes, the world and all who dwell in it.
6 Who can stand before his indignation? And who can abide in the fierceness of his anger? His wrath is poured out like fire and the rocks are broken apart by him.
7 Jehovah is good, a stronghold in the day of trouble and he knows those who take refuge in him. 8 But with an over running flood he will make a full end of her place and will pursue his enemies into darkness.
9 What do you* devise against Jehovah? He will make a full end. Affliction will not rise up the second time. 10 For entangled like thorns and drunken as with their drink, they are consumed utterly as dry stubble. 11 He has gone forth out of you, who devises evil against Jehovah, who counsels wickedness.
12 Jehovah says thus: Though they are in full strength and likewise many, even so they will be cut down. And he will pass away. Though I have afflicted you, I will afflict you no more. 13 And now I will break his yoke from you and will burst your bonds apart.
14 And Jehovah has given commandment concerning you, that no more of your name be sown. Out of the house of your gods I will cut off the graven image and the molten image. I will make your grave, for you are vile.
15 Behold, upon the mountains the feet of him who brings good news, who proclaims peace! Keep your feasts, O Judah. Perform your vows, for the wicked one will no more pass through you. He is utterly cut off.