Nahum 1

Revised Geneva Translation

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

² God is jealous. And the LORD avenges. The LORD avenges, the LORD of anger. The LORD will take vengeance on His adversaries, and He reserves wrath for His enemies.

³ The LORD is slow to anger, but great in power, and will not surely acquit. The LORD 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 dries it. And He dries up all the rivers. Bashan is withered, and Carmel. And the flower of Lebanon is wilted.

⁵ The mountains tremble for Him, and the hills melt. And the Earth is burnt at His sight, yea the world and all who dwell in it.

⁶ Who can stand before His wrath? Or who can abide in the fierceness of His wrath? His wrath is poured out like fire, and the rocks are broken by Him.

⁷ The LORD is good, a stronghold in the day of trouble. And He knows those who trust in Him.

⁸ But passing over as with a flood, He will utterly destroy its place. And darkness shall pursue His enemies.

⁹ What do you imagine against the LORD? He will make an utter destruction. Affliction shall not rise up a second time.

¹⁰ For like tangled thorns, and like drunkards in their drunkenness, they shall be devoured as fully dried stubble.

¹¹ There comes one out of you who imagines evil against the LORD, a wicked counselor.

¹² Thus says the LORD: “Though they are quiet, and also many, yet thus shall they be cut off when he shall pass. Though I have afflicted you, I will afflict you no more.

¹³ “For now I will break his yoke from you and will burst your bonds asunder.

¹⁴ “And the LORD has given a Commandment concerning you that no more of your name be scattered. Out of the house of your gods I will cut off the carved image and the cast image. I will make it your grave for you, for you are vile.

¹⁵ “Behold the feet of him who declares and publishes peace upon the mountains. O Judah, keep your solemn Feasts, perform your vows! For the wicked shall no longer pass through you. He is utterly cut off.”