desolate because of them that dwell in it, for the fruit of their doings. [1]
14 Feed thy people with thy rod, the flock of thy heritage, who dwell solitarily in the forest, in the midst of Carmel: let them feed in Bashan and Gilead, as in the days of old. [2]
15 According to the days of thy departure from the land of Egypt will I show to him marvellous things .
16 The nations shall see and be confounded at all their might: they shall lay their hand upon their mouth, their ears shall be deaf.
17 They shall lick the dust like a serpent, they shall move out of their holes like worms of the earth: they shall be afraid of the LORD our God, and shall fear because of thee. [3]
18 Who is a God like thee, that pardoneth iniquity, and passeth by the transgression of the remnant of his heritage? he retaineth not his anger for ever, because he delighteth in mercy.
19 He will turn again, he will have compassion upon us; he will subdue our iniquities; and thou wilt cast all their sins into the depths of the sea.
20 Thou wilt perform the truth to Jacob, and the mercy to Abraham, which thou hast sworn to our fathers from the days of old.
Nahum.
Before
CHRIST,
713.
CHAP. 1.
1 The burden of Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite.
2 God is jealous, and the LORD avengeth; the LORD avengeth, and is furious; the LORD will take vengeance on his adversaries, and he reserveth wrath for his enemies. [4] [5]
3 The LORD is slow to anger, and great in power, and will not at all acquit the wicked : the LORD hath his way in the whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet.
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.
5 The mountains quake at him, and the hills melt, and the earth is burned at his presence, even the world, and all that dwell in it.
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. [6]
7 The LORD is good, a strong hold in the day of trouble; and he knoweth them that trust in him. [7]
8 But with an overrunning flood he will make an utter end of its place, and darkness shall pursue his enemies.
9 What do ye imagine against the LORD? he will make an utter end: affliction shall not rise up the second time.
10 For while they are entangled together as thorns, and while they are drunk as drunkards, they shall be devoured as stubble fully dry.
11 There is one come out of thee, that imagineth evil against the LORD, a wicked counsellor. [8]
12 Thus saith the LORD; Though they are 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. [9] [10]
13 For now I will break his yoke from off thee, and will burst thy bonds asunder.
14 And the LORD hath given a commandment concerning thee, that no more of thy name be sown: out of the house of thy gods will I cut off the graven image and the molten image: I will make thy grave; for thou art vile.
15 Behold upon the mountains the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that proclaimeth peace! O Judah, keep thy solemn feasts, perform thy vows: for the wicked shall no more pass through thee; he is utterly cut off. [11] [12]
CHAP. 2.
1 He that dasheth in pieces is come up before thy face: keep the fortress, watch the way, make thy loins strong, fortify thy power mightily. [13]
2 For the LORD hath turned away the excellency of Jacob, as the excellency of Israel: for the emptiers have emptied them out, and marred their vine branches. [14]
3 The shield of his mighty men is made red, the valiant men are in scarlet: the chariots shall be with flaming torches in the day of his preparation, and the fir trees shall be terribly shaken. [15] [16]
4 The chariots shall rage in the streets, they shall jostle one against another in the broad ways: they shall seem like torches, they shall run like the lightnings. [17]
- ↑ Notwithstanding: or, After that it hath been
- ↑ Feed: or, Rule
- ↑ worms: or, creeping things
- ↑ God...: or, The LORD is a jealous God, and a revenger, etc
- ↑ is furious: Heb. that hath fury
- ↑ abide: Heb. stand up
- ↑ strong hold: or, strength
- ↑ a wicked...: Heb. a counsellor of Belial
- ↑ Though...: or, If they would have been at peace, so should they have been many, and so should they have been shorn, and he should have passed away
- ↑ cut down: Heb. shorn
- ↑ keep...: Heb. feast
- ↑ the wicked: Heb. Belial
- ↑ He...: or, The disperser, or, hammer
- ↑ the excellency of Jacob...: or, the pride of Jacob as the pride, etc
- ↑ in scarlet: or, dyed scarlet
- ↑ flaming: or, fiery
- ↑ they: Heb. their show
