1 The oracle concerning Nineveh—
    the scroll of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite:

² 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.
³ 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.
⁴ 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.
⁵ Mountains quake before him;
    the hills shake apart.^[d]
The earth heaves before him—
    the world and all her inhabitants.
⁶ His indignation—who can stand before it?
    Who can endure his fierce anger?^[e]
His wrath is poured out like fire;
    rocks are shattered before^[f] him.
⁷ Yahweh is good—a refuge in the day of distress;
    he knows those who take refuge in him.
⁸ But with a rushing torrent he will bring Nineveh to an end;
    he will chase his enemies into darkness.

⁹ What^[g] do you plot against Yahweh?
    He will completely destroy it;^[h]
        trouble will not rise up a second time!
¹⁰ For like entangled thorns,
    and like their drink which is drunk,
        they will be consumed like fully dry chaff.
¹¹ From you goes out one who plots evil against Yahweh,
    one who plans wickedness.