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Half-Acrostic: Yahweh Takes Vengeance against His Enemies

Yahweh is a jealous God and avenging;
    Yahweh is avenging and full of wrath.[a]
Yahweh takes vengeance against his enemies;
    he rages against his adversaries.
Yahweh is slow to anger but great in power;
    he will certainly not allow the guilty to go unpunished.
He marches[b] in storm wind and in gale;
    storm clouds are the dust of his feet.
He rebukes the sea and he dries up the rivers;
    he makes all the rivers run dry.
Bashan and Carmel wither;[c]
    the blossom of Lebanon languishes.

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Footnotes

  1. Nahum 1:2 Literally “a lord of wrath”
  2. Nahum 1:3 Literally “His path”
  3. Nahum 1:4 MT reads “languishes,” but the versions reflect “withers,” which also restores the acrostic