Nahum Cross References - MLV

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.

¹¹ He went forth out of that land into Assyria and built Nineveh and Rehoboth-ir and Calah

¹ The burden of Babylon, which Isaiah the son of Amoz saw.

²⁸ In the year that king Ahaz died was this burden.

¹ The burden of Moab. For in a night Ar of Moab is laid waste, and brought to nothing. For in a night Kir of Moab is laid waste, and brought to nothing.

¹ The burden of Egypt. Behold, Jehovah rides upon a swift cloud and comes to Egypt. And the idols of Egypt will tremble at his presence and the heart of Egypt will melt in the midst of it.

¹ The burden of the wilderness of the sea. As whirlwinds in the South sweep through, it comes from the wilderness, from a terrible land.

¹ The burden of the valley of vision. What troubles you now, that you have entirely gone up to the housetops?

¹ The burden of Tyre. Howl, you* ships of Tarshish, for it is laid waste, so that there is no house, no entering in. It is revealed to them from the land of Kittim.

³³ And when this people, or the prophet, or a priest, will ask you, saying, What is the burden of Jehovah? Then you will say to them, What burden?
I will cast you* off, says Jehovah. ³⁴ And as for the prophet and the priest and the people, who will say, The burden of Jehovah, I will even punish that man and his house.
³⁵ Thus you* will say each one to his neighbor and each one to his brother, What has Jehovah answered? and, What has Jehovah spoken? ³⁶ And the burden of Jehovah you* will mention no more, for every man's own word will be his burden. For you* have perverted the words of the living God, of Jehovah of hosts our God.
³⁷ Thus you will say to the prophet: What has Jehovah answered you? and, What has Jehovah spoken?

² Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city and cry against it, for their wickedness has come up before me.

³ So Jonah arose and went to Nineveh, according to the word of Jehovah. Now Nineveh was an exceedingly great city, of three days' journey. ⁴ And Jonah began to enter into the city a day's journey. And he cried out and said, Yet forty days and Nineveh will be overthrown.

⁸ But Nineveh has been from of old like a pool of water. Yet they flee away. Stand, stand, they cry, but none looks back.

¹³ And he will stretch out his hand against the north and destroy Assyria and will make Nineveh a desolation and dry like the wilderness.

¹ The burden of the word of Jehovah upon the land of Hadrach and Damascus its resting-place (for the eye of man and of all the tribes of Israel is toward Jehovah),

⁵ You will not bow down yourself to them, nor serve them, because I, Jehovah your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the sons, upon the third and upon the fourth generation of those who hate me,

¹⁴ for you will worship no other god. For Jehovah, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God.

²⁸ then I will walk contrary to you* in wrath and I also will discipline you* seven times for your* sins.

²⁴ For Jehovah your God is a consuming fire, a jealous God.

³⁴ Is not this laid up in store with me, sealed up among my treasures?
³⁵ Vengeance is for me and recompense at the time when their foot will slip. For the day of their calamity is at hand and the things that are to come upon them will make haste.

⁴¹ if I flash my glittering sword and my hand takes hold on judgment, I will render vengeance to my adversaries and will recompense those who hate me. ⁴² I will make my arrows drunk with blood and my sword will devour flesh, with the blood of the slain and the captives, from the head of the leaders of the enemy. ⁴³ Rejoice, O you* Gentiles, with his people. For he will avenge the blood of his servants and will render vengeance to his adversaries and will recompense those who hate him and will make expiation for his land, for his people.

¹⁹ And Joshua said to the people, You* cannot serve Jehovah, for he is a holy God. He is a jealous God. He will not forgive your* transgression nor your* sins.

²³ When he is about to fill his belly, God will cast the fierceness of his wrath upon him and will rain it upon him while he is eating.

¹ O Jehovah, God of vengeance, O God of vengeance, shine forth.

¹³ Jehovah will go forth as a mighty man. He will stir up his zeal like a man of war. He will cry, yes, he will shout aloud. He will do mightily against his enemies.

¹⁷ Awake, awake, stand up, O Jerusalem, who have drunk at the hand of Jehovah the cup of his wrath. You have drunk the bowl of the cup of staggering and drained it.

²⁰ Your sons have fainted. They lie at the head of all the streets, as an antelope in a net. They are full of the wrath of Jehovah, the rebuke of your God.

¹⁷ And he put on righteousness as a breastplate and a helmet of salvation upon his head. And he put on garments of vengeance for clothing and was clad with zeal as a mantle.
¹⁸ According to their deeds, accordingly he will repay, wrath to his adversaries, recompense to his enemies. He will repay recompense to the islands.

³ I have trodden the winepress alone and of the peoples there was no man with me. Yes, I trod them in my anger and trampled them in my wrath and their lifeblood is sprinkled upon my garments and I have stained all my garments. ⁴ For the day of vengeance was in my heart and the year of my redeemed has come.
⁵ And I looked and there was none to help. And I wondered that there was none to uphold. Therefore my own arm brought salvation to me. And my wrath, it upheld me. ⁶ And I trod down the peoples in my anger and made them drunk in my wrath and I poured out their lifeblood on the earth.

¹⁵ For, behold, Jehovah will come with fire and his chariots will be like the whirlwind, to render his anger with fierceness and his rebuke with flames of fire.

⁵ Will he retain his anger everlasting? Will he keep it to the end? Behold, you have spoken and have done evil things and have had your way.

⁴ Circumcise yourselves to Jehovah and take away the foreskins of your* heart, you* men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem, lest my wrath go forth like fire and burn so that none can quench it, because of the evil of your* practices.

¹⁵ For Jehovah says thus, the God of Israel, to me: Take this cup of the wine of wrath at my hand and cause all the nations, to whom I send you, to drink it.

⁷ It may be they will present their supplication before Jehovah and will return each one from his evil way, for great is the anger and the wrath that Jehovah has pronounced against this people.

¹¹ Jehovah has accomplished his wrath. He has poured out his fierce anger and he has kindled a fire in Zion, which has devoured the foundations of it.

¹³ Thus my anger will be accomplished and I will cause my wrath toward them to rest and I will be comforted. And they will know that I, Jehovah, have spoken in my zeal, when I have accomplished my wrath upon them.

¹² He who is far off will die of the pestilence and he who is near will fall by the sword and he who remains and is besieged will die by the famine. Thus I will accomplish my wrath upon them.

¹⁸ Therefore I will also deal in wrath. My eye will not spare, nor will I have pity. And though they cry in my ears with a loud voice, yet I will not hear them.

⁶ Therefore prophesy concerning the land of Israel and say to the mountains and to the hills, to the watercourses and to the valleys, The lord Jehovah says thus: Behold, I have spoken in my jealousy and in my wrath, because you* have borne the shame of the nations.

¹⁸ And it will happen in that day, when Gog will come against the land of Israel, says the lord Jehovah, that my wrath will come up into my nostrils.

²⁵ Therefore thus says the lord Jehovah: Now I will bring back the captivity of Jacob and have mercy upon the whole house of Israel. And I will be jealous for my holy name.

¹⁸ Then Jehovah was jealous for his land and had pity on his people.

¹⁵ And I will execute vengeance in anger and wrath upon the nations that did not listen.

¹⁸ Who is a God like to you, who pardons iniquity and passes over the transgression of the remnant of his heritage? He does not retain his anger forever, because he delights in loving kindness.

¹⁴ So the messenger who talked with me said to me, Cry, saying, Jehovah of hosts says thus: I am jealous for Jerusalem and for Zion with a great jealousy.

² Jehovah of hosts says thus: I am jealous for Zion with great jealousy and I am jealous for her with great wrath.

⁵ But you store up wrath for yourself according to your hardness and unrepentant heart in the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God; ⁶ who will ‘repay to each according to his works.’

¹⁹ Beloved, do not be avenging yourselves, but give a chance for the wrath of God; for it has been written, ‘Vengeance is for me. I will be repaying, says the Lord.’

⁴ for he is a servant of God to you for what is the good thing. But if you practice what is the evil thing, be afraid; for he is not wearing the sword vainly; for he is a servant of God, an avenger for wrath to the one who is practicing the evil thing.

³⁰ For we know the one who said, ‘Vengeance is for me. I will be repaying says the Lord.’And again, ‘ The Lord will judge his people.’

⁹ The Lord knows how to rescue the devout out of temptation, and to keep the unrighteous to a day of judgment to be punished;

¹⁶ And it happened on the third day, when it was morning, that there were thunders and lightnings and a thick cloud upon the mountain and the voice of an exceedingly loud trumpet. And all the people who were in the camp trembled.
¹⁷ And Moses brought out the people out of the camp to meet God and they stood at the lower part of the mountain. ¹⁸ And Mount Sinai, the whole of it, smoked, because Jehovah descended upon it in fire and the smoke of it ascended as the smoke of a furnace. And the whole mountain quaked greatly.

⁶ And Jehovah passed by before him and proclaimed, Jehovah, Jehovah, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger and abundant in loving kindness and truth, ⁷ keeping loving kindness for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin and who will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the sons and upon the sons' sons, upon the third and upon the fourth generation.

¹⁸ Jehovah is slow to anger and abundant in loving kindness, forgiving iniquity and transgression and that will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the sons, upon the third and upon the fourth generation.

²² These words Jehovah spoke to all your* assembly on the mountain out of the midst of the fire, of the cloud and of the thick darkness, with a great voice and he added no more. And he wrote them upon two tablets of stone and gave them to me.
²³ And it happened, when you* heard the voice out of the midst of the darkness, while the mountain was burning with fire, that you* came near to me, even all the heads of your* tribes and your* elders. ²⁴ And you* said, Behold, Jehovah our God has shown us his glory and his greatness and we have heard his voice out of the midst of the fire. We have seen this day that God speaks with man and he lives.

¹¹ And he said, Go forth and stand upon the mountain before Jehovah. And behold, Jehovah passed by and a great and strong wind tore the mountains and broke in pieces the rocks before Jehovah, but Jehovah was not in the wind. And after the wind an earthquake, but Jehovah was not in the earthquake. ¹² And after the earthquake a fire, but Jehovah was not in the fire. And after the fire a still small voice.
¹³ And it was so, when Elijah heard it, that he wrapped his face in his mantle and went out and stood in the entrance of the cave. And behold, there came a voice to him and said, What are you doing here, Elijah?

¹⁷ and refused to obey, neither were mindful of your wonders that you did among them, but stiffened their neck. And in their rebellion they appointed a captain to return to their bondage. But you are a God ready to pardon, gracious and merciful, slow to anger and abundant in loving kindness and did not forsake them.

⁴ He is wise in heart and mighty in strength. Who has hardened himself against him and prospered?

¹⁴ If I sin, then you mark me. And you will not acquit me from my iniquity.

¹ Then Jehovah answered Job out of the whirlwind and said,

⁷ Then the earth shook and trembled. The foundations also of the mountains quaked and were shaken because he was angry.
⁸ There went up a smoke out of his nostrils and fire out of his mouth devoured. Coals were kindled by it. ⁹ He also bowed the heavens and came down and thick darkness was under his feet.
¹⁰ And he rode upon a cherub and flew. Yes, he soared upon the wings of the wind.
¹¹ He made darkness his hiding-place, his pavilion all around him, darkness of waters, thick clouds of the skies.
¹² At the brightness before him his thick clouds passed, hailstones and coals of fire. ¹³ Jehovah also thundered in the heavens and the Most High uttered his voice, hailstones and coals of fire. ¹⁴ And he sent out his arrows and scattered them, Yes, lightnings shot out and confused them.
¹⁵ Then the channels of waters appeared and the foundations of the world were laid bare at your rebuke, O Jehovah, at the blast of the breath of your nostrils.

³ Our God comes and does not keep silence. A fire devours before him and it whirlwinds much all around him.

¹¹ God has spoken once, twice I have heard this, that power belongs to God.

³ Say to God, How awesome are your works! Through the greatness of your power your enemies will submit themselves to you.

² Clouds and darkness are all around him. Righteousness and justice are the foundation of his throne.
³ A fire goes before him and burns up his adversaries all around. ⁴ His lightnings lightened the world. The earth saw and trembled. ⁵ The mountains melted like wax at the presence of Jehovah, at the presence of the Lord of the whole earth.

⁸ Jehovah is merciful and gracious, slow to anger and abundant in loving kindness.

³ who lays the beams of his chambers in the waters, who makes the clouds his chariot, who walks upon the wings of the wind,

⁸ Jehovah is gracious and merciful, slow to anger and of great loving kindness.

⁵ Great is our Lord and mighty in power. His understanding is infinite.

¹³ I saw in the night visions, and behold, there came with the clouds of heaven someone like a son of man. And he came even to the ancient of days and they brought him near before him.

¹³ And tear your* heart and not your* garments and turn to Jehovah your* God, for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger and abundant in loving kindness and relents of the evil.

² And he prayed to Jehovah and said, I beseech you, O Jehovah, was not this my saying, when I was yet in my country? Therefore I hastened to flee to Tarshish, for I knew that you are a gracious God and merciful, slow to anger and abundant in loving kindness and relent you of the evil.

⁵ Before him went the pestilence. And fiery bolts went forth at his feet.
⁶ He stood and measured the earth. He beheld and drove apart the nations. And the eternal mountains were scattered. The everlasting hills bowed. His traveling are everlasting.
⁷ I saw the tents of Cushan in affliction. The curtains of the land of Midian trembled. ⁸ Was Jehovah displeased with the rivers? Was your anger against the rivers, or your wrath against the sea, that you rode upon your horses, upon your chariots of salvation?
⁹ Your bow was exposed. Naked are the oaths of the tribes to your word. Selah. You split the earth with rivers. ¹⁰ The mountains saw you and were afraid. The tempest of waters passed by. The deep uttered its voice and lifted up its hands on high. ¹¹ The sun and moon stood still in their habitation, at the light of your arrows as they went, at the shining of your glittering spear.
¹² You marched though the land in indignation. You threshed the nations in anger. ¹³ You went forth for the salvation of your people, for the salvation of your anointed.
You wound the head out of the house of the wicked man, laying bare the foundation even to the neck. Selah. ¹⁴ You pierced with his own staves the head of his warriors. They came as a whirlwind to scatter me. Their rejoicing was as to devour the poor man secretly. ¹⁵ You walked through the sea with your horses, the heap of mighty waters.

¹⁴ And Jehovah will be seen over them. And his arrow will go forth as the lightning. And the lord Jehovah will blow the trumpet and will go with whirlwinds of the south.

⁶⁴ Jesus said to him, You have said so. However I am saying to you, From now on, you will see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of power, and coming upon the clouds of heaven.

¹⁹ and what is the surpassing greatness of his power toward us who believe, according to the working of the dominion of his strength, ²⁰ which he worked in the Christ, having raised him up from the dead and seated him by his right hand in the heavenly places,

¹⁹ So-then my beloved brethren, let every man be quick to hear, slow to speak, and slow to wrath.

⁷ Behold, he is coming with the clouds, and every eye will be seeing him and those who stabbed him, and all the tribes of the earth will be grieving over him. Yes he comes, Amen.

¹³ And it will happen, when the soles of the feet of the priests who bear the ark of Jehovah, the Lord of all the earth, will rest in the waters of the Jordan, that the waters of the Jordan will be cut off, even the waters that come down from above and they will stand in one heap.
¹⁴ And it happened, when the people moved from their tents to pass over the Jordan–the priests who bore the ark of the covenant being before the people– ¹⁵ and when those who bore the ark came to the Jordan and the feet of the priests who bore the ark were dipped in the brink of the water (for the Jordan overflows all its banks all the time of harvest),

¹¹ and said, This far you will come, but no farther and here your proud waves will be stayed?

¹⁵ You split fountain and flood. You dried up mighty rivers.

⁷ At your rebuke they fled. At the voice of your thunder they hastened away.

⁹ He also rebuked the Red Sea and it was dried up. So he led them through the depths as through a wilderness.

³ The sea saw it and fled. The Jordan was driven back.

⁵ What is it to you, O you the sea, that you flee? You Jordan, that you turn back?

⁵ And the waters will fail from the sea and the river will be wasted and become dry. ⁶ And the rivers will become foul. The streams of Egypt will be diminished and dried up. The reeds and flags will wither away. ⁷ The meadows by the Nile, by the brink of the Nile and all the sown fields of the Nile, will become dry, be driven away and be no more.
⁸ And the fishermen will lament and all those who cast a hook into the Nile will mourn and those who spread nets upon the waters will languish. ⁹ Moreover those who work in combed flax and those who weave white cloth, will be confounded. ¹⁰ And the pillars of Egypt will be broken in pieces. All those who work for hire will be grieved in soul.

⁹ The land mourns and languishes. Lebanon is confounded and withers away. Sharon is like a desert and Bashan and Carmel shake off their leaves.

²⁷ who says to the deep, Be dry and I will dry up your rivers,

² Why, when I came, was there no man? When I called, was there none to answer? Is my hand shortened at all, that it cannot redeem? Or have I no power to deliver? Behold, at my rebuke I dry up the sea. I make the rivers a wilderness. Their fish stink because there is no water and die for thirst. ³ I clothe the heavens with blackness and I make sackcloth their covering.

¹⁰ Is it not you who dried up the sea, the waters of the great deep, who made the depths of the sea a way for the redeemed to pass over?

¹² And I will make the rivers dry and will sell the land into the hand of evil men. And I will make the land desolate and all that is in it, by the hand of strangers.
I, Jehovah, have spoken it.

² And he said, Jehovah will roar from Zion and utter his voice from Jerusalem and the pastures of the shepherds will mourn and the top of Carmel will wither.

⁸ seek he who makes the Pleiades and Orion and turns the shadow of death into the morning and makes the day dark with night, who calls for the waters of the sea and pours them out upon the face of the earth (Jehovah is his name),

²⁶ And he says to them, Why are you cowardly? You of small faith! Then he arose and rebuked the winds and the sea, and there became a great calm.

¹⁸ And Mount Sinai, the whole of it, smoked, because Jehovah descended upon it in fire and the smoke of it ascended as the smoke of a furnace. And the whole mountain quaked greatly.

⁵ The mountains flowed like lava at the presence of Jehovah, even
yon Sinai at the presence of Jehovah, the God of Israel.

⁸ Then the earth shook and trembled, the foundations of heaven quaked and were shaken, because he was angry.

⁵ The voice of Jehovah breaks the cedars. Yes, Jehovah breaks in pieces the cedars of Lebanon. ⁶ He makes them also to skip like a calf, Lebanon and Sirion like a young wild-ox.

⁶ The nations raged, the kingdoms were shaken, he uttered his voice, the earth melted.

⁸ the earth trembled, the heavens also dropped at the presence of God, Sinai at the presence of God, the God of Israel.

⁷ Let the sea roar and the fullness of it, the world and those who dwell in it.

⁴ The mountains skipped like rams, the little hills like lambs.

⁶ You* mountains, that you* skip like rams, you* little hills, like lambs?

¹² For there will be a day of Jehovah of hosts upon all that is proud and haughty and upon all that is lifted up and it will be brought low, ¹³ and upon all the cedars of Lebanon that are high and lifted up and upon all the oaks of Bashan, ¹⁴ and upon all the high mountains and upon all the hills that are lifted up,

¹ Oh that you would tear the heavens, that you would come down, that the mountains might quake at your presence, ² as when fire kindles the brushwood, and the fire causes the waters to boil, to make your name known to your adversaries, that the nations may tremble at your presence!

²⁴ I beheld the mountains, and behold, they trembled and all the hills moved to and fro.

⁴ And the mountains will be melted under him and the valleys will be split, as wax before the fire, as waters that are poured down a steep place.

¹⁰ The mountains saw you and were afraid. The tempest of waters passed by. The deep uttered its voice and lifted up its hands on high.

⁵¹ And behold, the curtain of the temple was split-apart into two pieces, from the top to the bottom, and the earth shook, and the rocks were split-apart;

² And behold, there became a great earthquake; for a messenger of the Lord, having come down from heaven, came and rolled away the stone from the door and was sitting upon it.

⁷ But the current heavens and the earth have been stored up for fire by the same word, being kept to the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men.
⁸ But beloved, let this one thing not elude you, that one day with the Lord is like a thousand years, and a thousand years like one day. ⁹ The Lord is not slow concerning his promise, as some deem slowness, but has patience toward us, not planning for any to perish, but for all to make room in your^\'b0 hearts for repentance.
¹⁰ But the day of the Lord will be coming like a thief in the night; in which the heavens will be passing away with a crashing-sound, and the elements will be dissolved, being burnt with heat, and the earth and the works which are in it will be burned up. ¹¹ Therefore, with all these things being dissolved, see what sort of things you ought to possess in all holy conduct and godliness, ¹² expecting, and diligently wanting the presence of the day of God, through which, the heavens will be dissolved, being on fire, and the elements will melt, being burnt with heat.

¹¹ And I saw a great white throne and the one who sits upon it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away, and no place was found for them.

²² For a fire is kindled in my anger and burns to the lowest Sheol and devours the earth with its increase and sets on fire the foundations of the mountains. ²³ I will heap evils upon them. I will spend my arrows upon them,

¹¹ And he said, Go forth and stand upon the mountain before Jehovah. And behold, Jehovah passed by and a great and strong wind tore the mountains and broke in pieces the rocks before Jehovah, but Jehovah was not in the wind. And after the wind an earthquake, but Jehovah was not in the earthquake.

¹² Kiss the Son, lest he is angry and you* perish in the way, because his wrath will soon be kindled. All those who take refuge in him are fortunate.

⁷ You, even you, are to be feared. And who may stand in your sight when once you are angry?

¹¹ Who knows the power of your anger and your wrath according to the fear that is due to you?

¹⁶ Therefore will the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, send among his fat ones, leanness and under his glory there will be kindled a burning like the burning of fire.

⁴ Wrath is not in me. Would that the briers and thorns were against me in battle! I would march upon them. I would burn them together.

¹⁰ But Jehovah is the true God. He is the living God and an everlasting King. At his wrath the earth trembles and the nations are not able to abide his indignation.

⁴ He has bent his bow like an enemy. He has stood with his right hand as an adversary and has slain all who were pleasant to the eye. He has poured out his wrath like fire in the tent of the daughter of Zion.

¹⁶ And I will set a fire in Egypt. Sin will be in great anguish and No will be broken up and Memphis will have adversaries in the daytime.

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.

² But who can abide the day of his coming? And who will stand when he appears? For he is like a refiner's fire and like launder's soap.

¹⁷ for the great day of his wrath has come, and who is able to stand?

¹ And I heard a loud voice out of the temple, saying to the seven messengers, Go and pour out the seven bowls of the fury of God into the earth.

⁸ And the fourth messenger poured out his bowl upon the sun, and it was given to it to burn men in fire.

²⁰ And they were helped against them and the Hagrites were delivered into their hand and all that were with them, for they cried to God in the battle and he was entreated by them because they put their trust in him.

³⁴ O give thanks to Jehovah, for he is good, for his loving kindness is everlasting.

⁸ Were not the Ethiopians and the Lubim a huge army, with chariots and horsemen exceedingly many? Yet, because you relied on Jehovah, he delivered them into your hand.
⁹ For the eyes of Jehovah run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to show himself strong to those whose heart is perfect toward him. In this you have done foolishly, for from hereafter you will have wars.

⁸ With him is an arm of flesh, but with us is Jehovah our God to help us and to fight our battles. And the people rested themselves upon the words of Hezekiah king of Judah.

¹¹ Does not Hezekiah persuade you*, to give you* over to die by famine and by thirst, saying, Jehovah our God will deliver us out of the hand of the king of Assyria?

²¹ And Jehovah sent a messenger who cut off all the mighty men of valor and the leaders and captains, in the camp of the king of Assyria. So he returned with shame of face to his own land. And when he came into the house of his god, those who came out from his own guts killed him there with the sword.

¹¹ And they sang one to another in praising and giving thanks to Jehovah, saying, For he is good, for his loving kindness is everlasting toward Israel. And all the people shouted with a great shout, when they praised Jehovah, because the foundation of the house of Jehovah was laid.

⁶ Because Jehovah knows the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked will perish.

¹ I love you, O Jehovah, my strength. ² Jehovah is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer, my God, my rock, in whom I will take refuge, my shield and the horn of my salvation, my high tower.

¹ Jehovah answer you in the day of trouble. The name of the God of Jacob set you up on high,

⁸ Good and upright is Jehovah. Therefore he will instruct sinners in the way.

⁵ Because in the day of trouble he will hide me in his shelter. He will hide me in the covering of his tabernacle He will lift me up upon a rock.

¹⁵ And call upon me in the day of trouble. I will deliver you and you will glorify me.

¹⁶ But I will sing of your strength. Yes, I will sing aloud of your loving kindness in the morning. Because you have been my high tower and a refuge in the day of my distress.

⁶ He only is my rock and my salvation, my high tower. I will not be shaken. ⁷ My salvation and my glory is with God. The rock of my strength and my refuge, is in God.
⁸ Trust in him at all times, you* the people. Pour out your* heart before him. God is a refuge for us. Selah.

³ Be to me a rock of habitation to which I may continually resort. You have given commandment to save me, because you are my rock and my fortress.

¹¹ Because Jehovah God is a sun and a shield. Jehovah will give favor and glory. He will withhold no good thing from those who walk uprightly.
¹² O Jehovah of hosts, blessed is the man who trusts in you.

⁷ I will call upon you in the day of my trouble, because you will answer me.

¹ He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High will abide under the shadow of the Almighty
² I will say of Jehovah, He is my refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust.

¹⁵ He will call upon me and I will answer him. I will be with him in trouble. I will deliver him and honor him.

⁵ Because Jehovah is good. His loving kindness is everlasting and his faithfulness to all generations.

¹ O give thanks to Jehovah, because he is good, because his loving kindness is everlasting.
² O give thanks to the God of gods, for his loving kindness is everlasting.
³ O give thanks to the Lord of lords, because his loving kindness is everlasting,
⁴ to him who alone does great wonders, because his loving kindness is everlasting,
⁵ to him who by understanding made the heavens, because his loving kindness is everlasting,
⁶ to him who spread forth the earth above the waters, because his loving kindness is everlasting,
⁷ to him who made great lights, because his loving kindness is everlasting,
⁸ the sun to rule by day, because his loving kindness is everlasting,
⁹ the moon and stars to rule by night, because his loving kindness is everlasting,
¹⁰ to him who killed* Egypt in their firstborn, because his loving kindness is everlasting,
¹¹ and brought out Israel from among them, because his loving kindness is everlasting,
¹² with a strong hand and with an outstretched arm, because his loving kindness is everlasting,
¹³ to him who divided the Red Sea apart, because loving kindness is everlasting,
¹⁴ and made Israel to pass through the midst of it, because his loving kindness is everlasting,
¹⁵ but overthrew Pharaoh and his army in the Red Sea, because his loving kindness is everlasting,
¹⁶ to him who led his people through the wilderness, because his loving kindness is everlasting,
¹⁷ to him who killed* great kings, because his loving kindness is everlasting,
¹⁸ and killed famous kings, because his loving kindness is everlasting,
¹⁹ Sihon king of the Amorites, because his loving kindness is everlasting,
²⁰ and Og king of Bashan, because his loving kindness is everlasting,
²¹ and gave their land for a heritage, because his loving kindness is everlasting,
²² even a heritage to Israel his servant, because his loving kindness is everlasting,
²³ who remembered us in our low estate, for his loving kindness is everlasting,
²⁴ and has delivered us from our adversaries, because his loving kindness is everlasting,
²⁵ who gives food to all flesh, because his loving kindness is everlasting.
²⁶ O give thanks to the God of heaven, because his loving kindness is everlasting.

¹ Praise Jehovah, my rock, who teaches my hands to war and my fingers to fight, ² my loving kindness and my fortress, my high tower and my deliverer, my shield and he in whom I take refuge, who subdues my people under me.

⁶ And men will speak of the might of your fearful acts and I will declare your greatness. ⁷ They will pour out the memory of your great goodness and will sing of your righteousness.
⁸ Jehovah is gracious and merciful, slow to anger and of great loving kindness. ⁹ Jehovah is good to all and his tender mercies are over all his works.
¹⁰ All your works will give thanks to you, O Jehovah and your holy ones will praise you.

¹⁰ The name of Jehovah is a strong tower. A righteous man runs into it and is safe.

⁴ For you have been a stronghold to a poor man, a stronghold to a needy man in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shade from the heat, when the blast of the oppressors is as a storm against the wall.

¹ In that day this song will be sung in the land of Judah: We have a strong city. He will appoint salvation for walls and ramparts. ² Open the gates, that the righteous nation which keeps faith may enter in. ³ You will keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on you, because he trusts in you. ⁴ Trust in Jehovah forever, for in Jehovah, even Jehovah, is an everlasting rock.

² And a man will be as a hiding-place from the wind and a covert from the tempest, as streams of water in a dry place, as the shade of a great rock in a weary land.

³ And they said to him, Thus says Hezekiah, This day is a day of trouble and of rebuke and of blasphemy, for the sons have come to the birth and there is not strength to bring forth. ⁴ It may be Jehovah your God will hear the words of Rabshakeh, whom the king of Assyria his master has sent to defy the living God and will rebuke the words which Jehovah your God has heard. Therefore lift up your prayer for the remnant that is left.

⁷ Blessed is the man who trusts in Jehovah and whose trust Jehovah is. ⁸ For he will be as a tree planted by the waters, that spreads out its roots by the river and will not fear when heat comes, but its leaf will be green and will not be worried in the year of drought, nor will cease from yielding fruit.

¹¹ the voice of joy and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the voice of those who say, Give thanks to Jehovah of hosts, for Jehovah is good, for his loving kindness is everlasting and of those who bring thanksgiving into the house of Jehovah. For I will cause the captivity of the land to return as at the first, says Jehovah.

²⁵ Jehovah is good to those who wait for him, to the soul who seeks him.

²⁸ Nebuchadnezzar spoke and said, Praise the God of Shadrach, Meshach and Abed-nego, who has sent his messenger and delivered his servants who trusted in him and have changed the king's word and have yielded their bodies, that they might not serve nor worship any god, except their own God.

²³ Then the king was exceedingly glad and commanded that they should take Daniel up out of the den. So Daniel was taken up out of the den and no manner of harm was found upon him, because he had trusted in his God.

²³ And then I will confess to them, I never knew you. Depart from me, you who are working lawlessness.

⁴³ He has confidence upon God. Let him rescue him now, if he is willing to save him; for he said, I am the Son of God.

¹⁴ I am the good shepherd, and I know my own and I am known by my own,

²⁷ My sheep hear my voice and I know them and they are following me,

²² Therefore, behold the kindness and severity of God, indeed severity upon those who fell, but kindness upon you, if you remain in the kindness of God : otherwise you also will be cut off.

⁹ But now having known God, but rather having been known by God, how are you turning back again to the weak and poor fundamental principles? Do you again wish to be enslaved to these anew?

¹⁹ Nevertheless the solid foundation of God stands, having this seal, ‘The Lord knows those who are his,’

⁸ He who does not love, does not know God, because God is love. ⁹ In this, the love of God was manifested in us, that God has sent his only begotten Son into the world in order that we might live through him. ¹⁰ In this is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the atonement on behalf of our sins.

¹⁵ Terrors are turned upon me. They chase my honor as the wind and my welfare is passed away as a cloud.

¹⁹ The way of the wicked is as darkness. They do not know at what they stumble.

⁷ now therefore, behold, the Lord brings up upon them the waters of the River, strong and many, even the king of Assyria and all his glory. And it will come up over all its channels and go over all its banks, ⁸ and it will sweep onward into Judah. It will overflow and pass through; it will reach even to the neck. And the stretching out of its wings will fill the breadth of your land, O Immanuel.

²² And they will look to the earth, and behold, distress and darkness, the gloom of anguish and into thick darkness to be driven away.

¹⁷ And I will make justice the line and righteousness the plummet.
And the hail will sweep away the refuge of lies and the waters will overflow the hiding place.

¹⁶ Give glory to Jehovah your* God, before he causes darkness and before your* feet stumble upon the dark mountains. And while you* look for light, he turns it into the shadow of death and makes it gross darkness.

¹³ Therefore thus says the lord Jehovah: I will even tear it with a stormy wind in my wrath and there will be an overflowing shower in my anger and great hailstones in wrath to consume it.

²⁶ And after the sixty-two weeks the anointed one will be cut off and will have nothing. And the people of the prince who will come will destroy the city and the sanctuary and the end of it will be with a flood. And even to the end will be war; desolations are determined.

¹⁰ And his sons will war and will assemble a multitude of great forces, which will come on and overflow and pass through. And they will return and war, even to his fortress.

²² And the overwhelming forces will be overwhelmed from before him and will be broken, yes, also the ruler of the covenant.

⁴⁰ And at the time of the end, the king of the south will contend with him and the king of the north will come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots and with horsemen and with many ships and he will enter into the countries and will overflow and pass through.

⁸ Shall the land not tremble for this and everyone mourn who dwells in it? Yes, it will rise up all of it like the River and it will be troubled and sink again like the River of Egypt.

⁵ For the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, is he who touches the land and it melts and all who dwell in it will mourn. And it will rise up all of it like the River and will sink again like the River of Egypt. ⁶ He who builds his chambers in the heavens and has founded his vault upon the earth, he who calls for the waters of the sea and pours them out upon the face of the earth, Jehovah is his name.

¹ The burden of Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite.

²⁷ and the rain came down and the rivers came up and the winds blew and hit that house and it fell and great was its fall.

¹² but the sons of the kingdom will be cast out into the outer darkness–the weeping and the gnashing of teeth will be there.

⁶ through which water, the world which was then was destroyed, having been flooded in water. ⁷ But the current heavens and the earth have been stored up for fire by the same word, being kept to the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men.

¹² In that day I will perform against Eli all that I have spoken concerning his house, from the beginning even to the end.

⁸ Then said Abishai to David, God has delivered up your enemy into your hand this day. Now therefore, I beseech you, let me kill* him with the spear to the earth at one stroke and I will not kill* him the second time.

¹⁰ But Amasa took no heed to the sword that was in Joab's hand. So he killed* him with it in the body and shed out his guts to the ground and struck him not again and he died. And Joab and Abishai his brother pursued after Sheba the son of Bichri.

¹ Why do the nations rage and the peoples meditate vain things? ² The kings of the earth set themselves and the rulers take counsel together, against Jehovah and against his anointed, saying, ³ Let us break their bonds apart and cast away their cords from us.
⁴ He who sits in the heavens will laugh. The Lord will mock them.

¹¹ Because they intended evil against you. They conceived a device which they are not able to perform.

¹⁰ Jehovah brings the counsel of the nations to nothing. He makes the thoughts of the peoples to be of no effect.

³⁰ There is no wisdom nor understanding nor counsel against Jehovah.

⁹ Make an uproar, O you* peoples and be broken in pieces. And listen, all you* of far countries. Gird yourselves and be broken in pieces. Gird yourselves and be broken in pieces. ¹⁰ Take counsel together and it will be brought to nothing. Speak the word and it will not stand, for God is with us.

¹⁰ The lord Jehovah says thus: It will happen in that day, that things will come into your mind and you will devise an evil plan.
¹¹ And you will say, I will go up to the land of un-walled villages. I will go to those who are at rest, who dwell securely, all of them dwelling without walls and having neither bars nor gates,

¹¹ He has gone forth out of you, who devises evil against Jehovah, who counsels wickedness.

²⁵ who through the mouth of our father David your young-servant, said, ‘Why do the Gentiles rage and the peoples meditate on empty things? ²⁶ The kings of the earth stood up and the rulers were gathered in the same place, against the Lord and against his Christ.’ ²⁷ For against truth, against your holy young-servant Jesus, whom you anointed, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, together with the Gentiles and the peoples of Israel, were gathered together ²⁸ to do as many things as your hand and your council predetermined to happen.

⁵ demolishing evil reasonings and every exalted thing which is lifting itself up against the knowledge of God and capturing every device of the Adversary to the obedience of the Christ;

³⁶ And Abigail came to Nabal, and behold, he held a feast in his house like the feast of a king. And Nabal's heart was merry within him, for he was very drunk. Therefore she told him nothing, less or more, until the morning light.

²⁸ And Absalom commanded his servants, saying, Notice you* now, when Amnon's heart is merry with wine and when I say to you*, Strike Amnon, then kill him. Do not fear; have I not commanded you*? Be courageous and be valiant.

⁶ But the worthless will be as thorns to be thrust away, all of them, because they cannot be taken with the hand. ⁷ But the man who touches them must be armed with iron and the staff of a spear and they will be utterly burned with fire in their place.

² As smoke is driven away, so drive them away. As wax melts before the fire, so let the wicked perish at the presence of God.

²⁴ Therefore as the tongue of fire devours the stubble and as the dry grass sinks down in the flame, so their root will be as rottenness and their blossom will go up as dust, because they have rejected the law of Jehovah of hosts and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.

¹⁸ For wickedness burns as the fire. It devours the briers and thorns. Yes, it kindles in the thickets of the forest and they roll upward in a column of smoke.

¹⁷ And the light of Israel will be for a fire and his Holy One for a flame and it will burn and devour his thorns and his briers in one day. ¹⁸ And he will consume the glory of his forest and of his fruitful field, both soul and body. And it will be as when a standard-bearer faints. ¹⁹ And the remnant of the trees of his forest will be few, so that a child may write them.

³⁹ When they are heated, I will make their feast. And I will make them drunken, that they may rejoice and sleep an everlasting sleep and not wake, says Jehovah.

⁵⁷ And I will make drunk her rulers and her wise men, her governors and her deputies and her mighty men. And they will sleep a everlasting sleep and not wake, says the King, whose name is Jehovah of hosts.

⁴ The best of them is as a brier. The most upright is worse than a thorn hedge. The day of your watchmen, even your visitation, has come. Now will be their perplexity.

¹¹ You also will be drunken. You will be hid. You also will seek a stronghold because of the enemy.

¹ For, behold, the day comes, it burns as a furnace and all the proud and all who work wickedness, will be stubble. And the day that comes will burn them up, says Jehovah of hosts, that it will leave them neither root nor branch.

² For you yourselves know accurately that the day of the Lord so comes like a thief in the night. ³ For whenever they are saying, Peace and security; then sudden utter-destruction stands by them, just-like the travail a woman has in her womb, and they may never flee away from it.

¹² Now the sons of Eli were worthless men; they did not know Jehovah.

¹ And there happened to be there a worthless fellow whose name was Sheba, the son of Bichri, a Benjamite. And he blew the trumpet and said, We have no portion in David, neither have we inheritance in the son of Jesse. Every man to his tents, O Israel.

¹³ Now in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah, Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all the fortified cities of Judah and took them. ¹⁴ And Hezekiah king of Judah sent to the king of Assyria to Lachish, saying, I have offended. Return from me. What you put on me I will bear. And the king of Assyria appointed to Hezekiah king of Judah three hundred talants of silver and thirty talants of gold.

³⁰ Neither let Hezekiah make you* trust in Jehovah, saying, Jehovah will surely deliver us and this city will not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.

²² Whom have you defied and blasphemed? And against whom have you exalted your voice and lifted up your eyes on high? Even against the Holy One of Israel.
²³ By your messengers you have defied the Lord and have said, With the multitude of my chariots I have come up to the height of the mountains, to the innermost parts of Lebanon. And I will cut down the tall cedars of it and the choice fir trees of it. And I will enter into his farthest lodging-place, the forest of his fruitful field. ²⁴ I have dug and drunk strange waters and with the sole of my feet I will dry up all the rivers of Egypt.
²⁵ Have you not heard how I have done it from afar and formed it of times long-ago? Now I have made it occur, that you should be to lay waste fortified cities into ruinous heaps.

⁷ And there were gathered to him vain men, sons of worthlessness, who strengthened themselves against Rehoboam the son of Solomon when Rehoboam was young and tender-hearted and could not withstand them.

¹⁵ Now therefore do not let Hezekiah deceive you*, nor persuade you* after this manner, neither believe him. For no god of any nation or kingdom was able to deliver his people out of my hand and out of the hand of my fathers. How much less will your* God deliver you* out of my hand?
¹⁶ And his servants spoke yet more against Jehovah God and against his servant Hezekiah. ¹⁷ He also wrote letters, to rail on Jehovah, the God of Israel and to speak against him, saying, As the gods of the nations of the lands, which have not delivered their people out of my hand, so will the God of Hezekiah not deliver his people out of my hand.
¹⁸ And they cried with a loud voice in the Jews' language to the people of Jerusalem who were on the wall, to frighten them and to trouble them, that they might take the city. ¹⁹ And they spoke of the God of Jerusalem, as of the gods of the peoples of the earth, which are the work of men's hands.

⁷ However he does not so reason, nor does his heart so think, but it is in his heart to destroy and to cut off nations not a few. ⁸ For he says, Are not my rulers all of them kings? ⁹ Is not Calno as Carchemish? Is not Hamath as Arpad? Is not Samaria as Damascus? ¹⁰ As my hand has found the kingdoms of the idols, whose graven images excelled those of Jerusalem and of Samaria, ¹¹ shall I not, as I have done to Samaria and her idols, so do to Jerusalem and her idols?
¹² Therefore it will happen, that, when the Lord has performed his whole work upon Mount Zion and on Jerusalem, I will punish the fruit of the arrogant heart of the king of Assyria and the glory of his high looks.
¹³ For he has said, I have done it by the strength of my hand and by my wisdom, for I have understanding. And I have removed the bounds of the peoples and have robbed their treasures. And like a valiant man I have brought down those who sit on thrones. ¹⁴ And my hand has found as a nest the riches of the peoples. And like a gathering of eggs that are forsaken, I have gathered all the earth. And there was none that moved the wing, or that opened the mouth, or chirped.
¹⁵ Shall the axe boast itself against he who hews with it? Shall the saw magnify itself against he who wields it? As if a rod should wield those who lift it up, or as if a staff should lift up he who is not wood.

⁹ What do you* devise against Jehovah? He will make a full end. Affliction will not rise up the second time.

¹² For I will go through the land of Egypt in that night and will kill* all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgments. I am Jehovah.

³⁵ And it happened that night, that the messenger of Jehovah went forth and killed* in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred eighty-five thousand. And when men arose early in the morning, behold, these were all dead bodies.

³⁷ And it happened, as he was worshiping in the house of Nisroch his god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer killed* him with the sword and they escaped into the land of Ararat. And Esarhaddon his son reigned instead of him.

²⁰ In that day the Lord will shave with a razor what is hired in the parts beyond the River, even with the king of Assyria, the head and the hair of the feet and it will also consume the beard.

⁸ and it will sweep onward into Judah. It will overflow and pass through; it will reach even to the neck. And the stretching out of its wings will fill the breadth of your land, O Immanuel.

³² This very day he will halt at Nob. He shakes his hand at the mountain of the daughter of Zion, the hill of Jerusalem.
³³ Behold, the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, will lop off the branches with terror. And the high of stature will be hewn down and the lofty will be brought low. ³⁴ And he will cut down the thickets of the forest with iron and Lebanon will fall by a mighty one.

²⁴ Jehovah of hosts has sworn, saying, Surely, as I have thought, so will it happen and as I have purposed, so will it stand, ²⁵ that I will break the Assyrian in my land and tread him under foot upon my mountains. Then will his yoke depart from them and his burden depart from their shoulder.
²⁶ This is the purpose that is purposed upon the whole earth and this is the hand that is stretched out upon all the nations. ²⁷ For Jehovah of hosts has purposed and who will annul it? And his hand is stretched out and who will turn it back?

¹⁴ At eventide, behold, terror, and before the morning they are not. This is the portion of those who despoil us and the lot of those who rob us.

¹⁹ For the people will dwell in Zion at Jerusalem. You will weep no more. He will surely be gracious to you at the voice of your cry. When he will hear, he will answer you.

²⁸ and his breath is as an overflowing stream that reaches even to the neck, to sift the nations with the sieve of destruction. And a bridle that makes them go-astray will be in the jaws of the peoples.
²⁹ You* will have a song as in the night when a holy feast is kept and gladness of heart, as he who goes with a pipe to come to the mountain of Jehovah, to the Rock of Israel. ³⁰ And Jehovah will cause his glorious voice to be heard and will show the coming down of his arm with the indignation of his anger and the flame of a devouring fire, with a blast and tempest and hailstones.
³¹ For through the voice of Jehovah the Assyrian will be dismayed. He will kill* him with his rod. ³² And every stroke of the appointed staff, which Jehovah will lay upon him, will be with the sound of tambourine and harps. And he will fight with them in battles with the brandishing of his arm. ³³ For a Topheth is prepared of old, yes, it is made ready for the king. He has made it deep and large. The pile of it is fire and much wood. The breath of Jehovah kindles it, like a stream of brimstone.

⁸ And the Assyrian will fall by the sword, not of man and the sword, not of men, will devour him. But he will flee from the sword and his young men will become subject to forced-labor.

³⁶ And the messenger of Jehovah went forth and killed* in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred and eighty-five thousand. And when men arose early in the morning, behold, these were all dead bodies.

²² Thus says your lord Jehovah and your God who pleads the cause of his people: Behold, I have taken out of your hand the cup of staggering, even the bowl of the cup of my wrath. You will no more drink it again.

¹⁸ Violence will no more be heard in your land, desolation nor destruction within your borders, but you will call your walls Salvation and your gates Praise. ¹⁹ The sun will no more be your light by day, nor for brightness will the moon give light to you, but Jehovah will be to you an everlasting light and your God your glory. ²⁰ Your sun will no more go down, nor will your moon withdraw itself, for Jehovah will be your everlasting light. And the days of your mourning will be ended.

³¹ For the Lord will not cast off everlasting. ³² For though he causes grief, yet he will have compassion according to the multitude of his loving kindnesses.

¹⁹ And Jehovah answered and said to his people, Behold, I will send you* grain and new wine and oil and you* will be satisfied with it. And I will no more make you* a reproach among the nations.

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.

¹⁶ They will not be hungry anymore, nor thirsty anymore; nor should the heat of the sun fall upon them, nor any heat,

¹⁴ He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death and broke their bonds apart.

⁴ For the yoke of his burden and the staff of his shoulder, the rod of his oppressor, you have broken as in the day of Midian.

²⁷ And it will happen in that day, that his burden will depart from your shoulder and his yoke from your neck and the yoke will be destroyed because of fatness.

²⁵ that I will break the Assyrian in my land and tread him under foot upon my mountains. Then will his yoke depart from them and his burden depart from their shoulder.

²⁰ For from old time I have broken your yoke and burst your bonds. And you said, I will not serve, for upon every high hill and under every green tree you bowed yourself, playing the prostitute.

⁵ I will go to the great men and will speak to them, for they know the way of Jehovah and the law of their God. But these with one accord have broken the yoke and burst the bonds.

⁵ And this man will be our peace.
When the Assyrian will come into our land and when he will tread in our palaces, then we will raise against him seven shepherds and eight principal men. ⁶ And they will waste the land of Assyria with the sword and the land of Nimrod in the entrances of it. And he will deliver us from the Assyrian, when he comes into our land and when he treads within our border.

³⁰ And I will destroy your* high places and cut down your* sun-images and cast your* dead bodies upon the bodies of your* idols and my soul will abhor you*.

¹³ For I have told him that I will judge his house everlasting, for the iniquity which he knew, because his sons brought a curse upon themselves and he did not restrain them.

¹³ Let his posterity be cut off. Let their name be blotted out in the following generation.

⁷ The memory of a righteous man is praised, but the name of the wicked will rot.

²⁰ You will not be joined with them in burial, because you have destroyed your land. You have slain your people. The seed of evildoers will not be named everlasting.
²¹ Prepare you* slaughter for his sons for the iniquity of their fathers, that they not rise up and possess the earth and fill the face of the world with cities. ²² And I will rise up against them, says Jehovah of hosts and cut off from Babylon name and remnant and son and son's son, says Jehovah.

¹³ Hear, you* who are far off, what I have done and you* who are near, acknowledge my might.

¹ Bel bows down, Nebo stoops, their idols are upon the beasts and upon the cattle. The things that you* carried about are made a load, a burden to the weary beast. ² They stoop, they bow down together. They could not deliver the burden, but themselves are gone into captivity.

² Declare among the nations and proclaim and set up a standard, proclaim and conceal not. Say, Babylon is taken. Bel is put to shame. Merodach is dismayed. Her images are put to shame; her idols are dismayed.

²² Asshur is there and all her company. Her graves are all around her, all of them slain, fallen by the sword, ²³ whose graves are set in the outermost parts of the pit. And her company is all around her grave, all of them slain, fallen by the sword, who caused terror in the land of the living.

²¹ And in his place he who is contemptible will stand up, to whom they had not given the honor of the kingdom. But he will come in time of security and will obtain the kingdom by flatteries.

¹³ And I will cut off your graven images and your pillars out of the midst of you and you will no more worship the work of your hands.

⁴ because of the multitude of the prostitutions of the fine-looking prostitute, the mistress of witchcrafts, who sells nations through her prostitutions and families through her witchcrafts.
⁵ Behold, I am against you, says Jehovah of hosts and I will uncover your skirts upon your face and I will show the nations your nakedness and the kingdoms your shame. ⁶ And I will cast abominable filth upon you and make you vile and will set you as a gazing-stock.

² Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them, The set feasts of Jehovah, which you* will proclaim to be holy convocations, even these are my set feasts.

⁴ These are the set feasts of Jehovah, even holy convocations, which you* will proclaim in their appointed season.

⁸ O that men would praise Jehovah for his loving kindness and for his wonderful works to the sons of men!

¹⁵ O that men would praise Jehovah for his loving kindness and for his wonderful works to the sons of men!

²¹ O that men would praise Jehovah for his loving kindness and for his wonderful works to the sons of men! ²² And let them offer the sacrifices of thanksgiving and declare his works with singing.

¹² What shall I render to Jehovah for all his benefits toward me? ¹³ I will take the cup of salvation and call upon the name of Jehovah. ¹⁴ I will pay my vows to Jehovah, yes, in the presence of all his people.

¹⁷ I will offer to you the sacrifice of thanksgiving and will call upon the name of Jehovah. ¹⁸ I will pay my vows to Jehovah, yes, in the presence of all his people,

⁷ And the multitude of all the nations that fight against Ariel, even all that fight against her and her stronghold and that distress her, will be as a dream, a vision of the night.
⁸ And it will be as when a hungry man dreams, and behold, he eats. But he awakes and his soul is empty. Or as when a thirsty man dreams, and behold, he drinks. But he awakes, and behold, he is faint and his soul has appetite. So will the multitude of all the nations be that fight against Mount Zion.

³⁶ And the messenger of Jehovah went forth and killed* in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred and eighty-five thousand. And when men arose early in the morning, behold, these were all dead bodies. ³⁷ So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed and went and returned and dwelt at Nineveh.
³⁸ And it happened, as he was worshiping in the house of Nisroch his god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons killed* him with the sword and they escaped into the land of Ararat. And Esarhaddon his son reigned instead of him.

⁹ O you who tell good news to Zion, get up on a high mountain. O you who tell good news to Jerusalem, lift up your voice with strength. Lift it up, do not be afraid, say to the cities of Judah, Behold, your* God!
¹⁰ Behold, the lord Jehovah will come as a mighty one and his arm will rule for him. Behold, his reward is with him and his recompense before him.

¹ Awake, awake, put on your strength, O Zion. Put on your beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city. For hereafter there will no more come into you the uncircumcised and the unclean.

⁷ How lovely are the feet of him who brings good news upon the mountains, who proclaims peace, who brings good news of good, who proclaims salvation, who says to Zion, Your God reigns!

¹⁷ So you* will know that I am Jehovah your* God, dwelling in Zion my holy mountain. Then Jerusalem will be holy and no strangers will pass through her any more.

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.

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.

¹⁰ And the messenger said to them, Do not be afraid; for behold, I proclaim to you good-news of great joy which will be to all the people,

¹⁴ Glory to God in the highest, and peace upon earth, in men–delight.

³⁶ The word which he sent to the sons of Israel, proclaiming the good-news of peace through Jesus Christ (this one is Lord of all).

¹⁵ But how will they preach, if they are not sent? Just-as it has been written, ‘How Beautiful are the feet of those who are proclaiming the good-news of peace and of those who are proclaiming the good-news of good things!’