Nahum 1 — BST
1Verse 1The burden of Nineve: the book of the vision of Naum the Elkesite.Verse 2God is jealous, and the Lord avenges; the Lord avenges with wrath; the Lord takes vengeance on his adversaries, and he cuts off his enemies.Verse 3The Lord is long-suffering, and his power is great, and the Lord will not hold any guiltless: his way is in destruction and in the whirlwind, and the clouds are the dust of his feet.Verse 4He threatens the sea, and dries it up, and exhausts all the rivers: the land of Basan, and Carmel are brought low, and the flourishing trees of Libanus have come to nought.Verse 5The mountains quake at him, and the hills are shaken, and the earth recoils at his presence, even the world, and all that dwell in it.Verse 6Who shall stand before his anger? and who shall withstand in the anger of his wrath? his wrath brings to nought kingdoms, and the rocks are burst asunder by him.Verse 7The Lord is good to them that wait on him in the day of affliction; and he knows them that reverence him.Verse 8But with an overrunning flood he will make an utter end: darkness shall pursue those that rise up against him and his enemies.Verse 9What do ye devise against the Lord? he will make a complete end: he will not take vengeance by affliction twice at the same time.Verse 10For the enemy shall be laid bare even to the foundation, and shall be devoured as twisted yew, and as stubble fully dry.Verse 11Out of thee shall proceed a device against the Lord, counselling evil things hostile to him.Verse 12Thus saith the Lord who rules over many waters, Even thus shall they be sent away, and the report of thee shall not be heard any more.Verse 13And now will I break his rod from off thee, and will burst thy bonds.Verse 14And the Lord shall give a command concerning thee; there shall no more of thy name be scattered: I will utterly destroy the graven images out of the house of thy god, and the molten images: I will make thy grave; for they are swift.