Nahum 1 English Standard Version
1 (A)An oracle concerning (B)Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum of Elkosh.
God's Wrath Against Nineveh
2 (C)The Lord is a jealous and avenging God;
the Lord is avenging and wrathful;
(D)the Lord takes vengeance on his adversaries
and (E)keeps wrath for his enemies.
3 (F)The Lord is slow to anger and (G)great in power,
and (H)the Lord will by no means clear the guilty.
(I)His way is in whirlwind and storm,
and the clouds are the dust of his feet.
4 (J)He rebukes the sea and makes it dry;
he dries up all the rivers;
(K)Bashan and (L)Carmel wither;
the bloom of (M)Lebanon withers.
5 (N)The mountains quake before him;
(O)the hills melt;
the earth heaves before him,
(P)the world and all who dwell in it.
6 (Q)Who can stand before his indignation?
Who can endure the heat of his anger?
His wrath (R)is poured out like fire,
and (S)the rocks are broken into pieces by him.
7 (T)The Lord is good,
(U)a stronghold in the day of trouble;
(V)he knows those who take refuge in him.
8 But (W)with an overflowing flood
he will make a complete end of the adversaries,[a]
and (X)will pursue his enemies into darkness.
9 What (Y)do you plot against the Lord?
(Z)He will make a complete end;
trouble will not rise up a second time.
10 For they are (AA)like entangled thorns,
like drunkards as they drink;
(AB)they are consumed like stubble fully dried.
11 From you came one
(AC)who plotted evil against the Lord,
a worthless counselor.
12 Thus says the Lord,
“Though they are at full strength and many,
(AD)they will be cut down and pass away.
(AE)Though I have afflicted you,
I will afflict you no more.
13 And now (AF)I will break his yoke from off you
and will burst your bonds apart.”
14 The Lord has given commandment about you:
(AG)“No more shall your name be perpetuated;
from (AH)the house of your gods I will cut off
the carved image and the metal image.
(AI)I will make your grave, (AJ)for you are vile.”
15 [b] (AK)Behold, upon the mountains, (AL)the feet of him
who brings good news,
who publishes peace!
(AM)Keep your feasts, O Judah;
(AN)fulfill your vows,
(AO)for never again shall the worthless pass through you;
he is utterly cut off.
Footnotes
- Nahum 1:8 Hebrew of her place
- Nahum 1:15 Ch 2:1 in Hebrew
Cross references
- Nahum 1:1 : See Isa. 13:1
- Nahum 1:1 : ch. 2:8; 3:7; See Jonah 1:2
- Nahum 1:2 : See Ex. 20:5
- Nahum 1:2 : [Ps. 92:9]
- Nahum 1:2 : [Ps. 103:9]
- Nahum 1:3 : See Ex. 34:6
- Nahum 1:3 : Job 9:4; Ps. 147:5
- Nahum 1:3 : See Ex. 34:7
- Nahum 1:3 : [Ps. 97:2]; See Ps. 18:9-13
- Nahum 1:4 : Ps. 106:9; [Isa. 50:2]
- Nahum 1:4 : Isa. 33:9
- Nahum 1:4 : See Josh. 19:26
- Nahum 1:4 : Isa. 33:9
- Nahum 1:5 : [Jer. 4:24; Hab. 3:6]
- Nahum 1:5 : Amos 9:13
- Nahum 1:5 : Ps. 98:7
- Nahum 1:6 : [Mal. 3:2]
- Nahum 1:6 : 2 Chr. 34:21; [Ps. 79:6]
- Nahum 1:6 : Ezek. 38:20
- Nahum 1:7 : Jer. 33:11; See Ps. 100:5
- Nahum 1:7 : Ps. 46:1; Isa. 25:4
- Nahum 1:7 : Ps. 1:6; John 10:14, 27; 1 Cor. 8:3; 2 Tim. 2:19
- Nahum 1:8 : [Isa. 30:28]
- Nahum 1:8 : Isa. 8:22
- Nahum 1:9 : [Isa. 10:7]
- Nahum 1:9 : [Jer. 4:27]
- Nahum 1:10 : See Mic. 7:4
- Nahum 1:10 : See Joel 2:5
- Nahum 1:11 : [ver. 9; 2 Kgs. 19:22, 23]
- Nahum 1:12 : Isa. 10:33, 34; [Isa. 37:36]
- Nahum 1:12 : ver. 9; [Isa. 9:1]
- Nahum 1:13 : [Isa. 9:4; 10:27; 14:25]
- Nahum 1:14 : [Ps. 109:13]
- Nahum 1:14 : [2 Kgs. 19:37]
- Nahum 1:14 : [Isa. 30:33]; See Ezek. 32:21-23
- Nahum 1:14 : [ch. 3:6]
- Nahum 1:15 : See Isa. 52:7
- Nahum 1:15 : [Rom. 10:15]
- Nahum 1:15 : [Isa. 30:29]
- Nahum 1:15 : See Num. 30:2
- Nahum 1:15 : [ver. 12]; See Joel 3:17
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