13 Now I will break their yoke(A) from your neck
    and tear your shackles away.”(B)

14 The Lord has given a command concerning you, Nineveh:
    “You will have no descendants to bear your name.(C)
I will destroy the images(D) and idols
    that are in the temple of your gods.
I will prepare your grave,(E)
    for you are vile.”

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13 For now will I break his yoke from off thee, and will burst thy bonds in sunder.

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.

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13 For now I will break off his yoke from you,
And burst your bonds apart.”

14 The Lord has given a command concerning you:
[a]“Your name shall be perpetuated no longer.
Out of the house of your gods
I will cut off the carved image and the molded image.
I will dig your (A)grave,
For you are (B)vile.”[b]

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Footnotes

  1. Nahum 1:14 Lit. No more of your name shall be fruitful
  2. Nahum 1:14 Or contemptible