Nahum
The Book of Nahum
1* The boding for Nineveh; the book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite.
2* Jehovah is a jealous deity and takes revenge;
Jehovah takes revenge and is fierce in temper;
Jehovah takes revenge on his foes
and bears his enemies in mind.
3 Jehovah is patient and powerful,
and Jehovah does not acquit an offender.
His walk is in gale and tempest,
and clouds are the dust of his feet;
4** He speaks sternly to the sea and dries it out,
and dries off all the rivers;
Bashan wilts, and Carmel,
and the young leafage of Lebanon stands forlorn.
5* The mountains quake at him,
and the hills surge,
And the earth is in commotion before him,
the world and all who inhabit it.
6* Before his hostility who may stand,
and who stand up amid the heat of his anger?
His choler is like a stream of fire,
and the rocks break down before him.
Jehovah knows those who take refuge in him,
8* and carries them through cloudbursts.
He makes a finish of those who stand up against him,
and chases his enemies into darkness.
10* for even briers matted in a tangle, and soaked as they can be, will be eaten up like stubble fully dry. 11 Out of you came one who planned mischief against Jehovah, who proposed a vicious policy.
12* Says Jehovah, If waters gush out and rage withal, so do they subside and pass off; I did grind you down, I will not again. 13 And now I will break his yoke-bow off from you and snap your tether.
14* And Jehovah will give a commission against you: there shall not again be any of your name engendered; out of the house of your gods I will eradicate carving and casting; I will make your grave a dunghill.
15* There on the mountains are the feet of a messenger of good news, a herald of peace: celebrate your feasts, Judah, pay your vows, for never again shall the reprobates pass through you, they are done with, they are extinct.