Nahum 1:2-10

English Standard Version

God's Wrath Against Nineveh

²^(A)The Lord is a jealous and avenging God;
    the Lord is avenging and wrathful;
^(B)the Lord takes vengeance on his adversaries
    and ^(C)keeps wrath for his enemies.
³^(D)The Lord is slow to anger and ^(E)great in power,
    and ^(F)the Lord will by no means clear the guilty.
^(G)His way is in whirlwind and storm,
    and the clouds are the dust of his feet.
⁴^(H)He rebukes the sea and makes it dry;
    he dries up all the rivers;
^(I)Bashan and ^(J)Carmel wither;
    the bloom of ^(K)Lebanon withers.
⁵^(L)The mountains quake before him;
    ^(M)the hills melt;
the earth heaves before him,
    ^(N)the world and all who dwell in it.

⁶^(O)Who can stand before his indignation?
    Who can endure the heat of his anger?
His wrath ^(P)is poured out like fire,
    and ^(Q)the rocks are broken into pieces by him.
⁷^(R)The Lord is good,
    ^(S)a stronghold in the day of trouble;
^(T)he knows those who take refuge in him.
⁸    But ^(U)with an overflowing flood
he will make a complete end of the adversaries,^[a]
    and ^(V)will pursue his enemies into darkness.
⁹What ^(W)do you plot against the Lord?
    ^(X)He will make a complete end;
    trouble will not rise up a second time.
¹⁰For they are ^(Y)like entangled thorns,
    like drunkards as they drink;
    ^(Z)they are consumed like stubble fully dried.