Nahum 1

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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.
⁹What ^(Y)do you plot against the Lord?
    ^(Z)He will make a complete end;
    trouble will not rise up a second time.
¹⁰For they are ^(AA)like entangled thorns,
    like drunkards as they drink;
    ^(AB)they are consumed like stubble fully dried.
¹¹From you came one
    ^(AC)who plotted evil against the Lord,
    a worthless counselor.

¹²Thus 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.
¹³And now ^(AF)I will break his yoke from off you
    and will burst your bonds apart.”

¹⁴The 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

Psalm 107

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Book Five

Let the Redeemed of the Lord Say So

107 ^(A)Oh give thanks to the Lord, ^(B)for he is good,
    for his steadfast love endures forever!
²Let ^(C)the redeemed of the Lord say so,
    whom he has ^(D)redeemed from trouble^[a]
³and ^(E)gathered in from the lands,
    from the east and from the west,
    from the north and from the south.

⁴Some ^(F)wandered in desert wastes,
    finding no way ^(G)to a city to dwell in;
⁵hungry and thirsty,
    their soul ^(H)fainted within them.
⁶Then they ^(I)cried to the Lord in their trouble,
    and he delivered them from their distress.
⁷He led them by ^(J)a straight way
    till they reached ^(K)a city to dwell in.
⁸^(L)Let them thank the Lord for his steadfast love,
    for his wondrous works to the children of man!
⁹For he ^(M)satisfies the longing soul,
    ^(N)and the hungry soul he fills with good things.

¹⁰^(O)Some sat in darkness and in ^(P)the shadow of death,
    prisoners in ^(Q)affliction and in irons,
¹¹for they ^(R)had rebelled against the words of God,
    and ^(S)spurned the counsel of the Most High.
¹²So he bowed their hearts down with hard labor;
    they fell down, ^(T)with none to help.
¹³^(U)Then they cried to the Lord in their trouble,
    and he delivered them from their distress.
¹⁴He brought them out of ^(V)darkness and the shadow of death,
    and ^(W)burst their bonds apart.
¹⁵^(X)Let them thank the Lord for his steadfast love,
    for his wondrous works to the children of man!
¹⁶For he ^(Y)shatters the doors of bronze
    and cuts in two the bars of iron.

¹⁷Some were ^(Z)fools through their sinful ways,
    and because of their iniquities suffered affliction;
¹⁸^(AA)they loathed any kind of food,
    and they ^(AB)drew near to ^(AC)the gates of death.
¹⁹^(AD)Then they cried to the Lord in their trouble,
    and he delivered them from their distress.
²⁰He ^(AE)sent out his word and ^(AF)healed them,
    and ^(AG)delivered them from their destruction.
²¹^(AH)Let them thank the Lord for his steadfast love,
    for his wondrous works to the children of man!
²²And let them ^(AI)offer sacrifices of thanksgiving,
    and ^(AJ)tell of his deeds in ^(AK)songs of joy!

²³Some ^(AL)went down to the sea in ships,
    doing business on the great waters;
²⁴they saw the deeds of the Lord,
    his wondrous works in the deep.
²⁵For he ^(AM)commanded and ^(AN)raised the stormy wind,
    which lifted up the waves of the sea.
²⁶They mounted up to heaven; they went down to the depths;
    their courage ^(AO)melted away in their evil plight;
²⁷they reeled and ^(AP)staggered like drunken men
    and ^(AQ)were at their wits' end.^[b]
²⁸^(AR)Then they cried to the Lord in their trouble,
    and he delivered them from their distress.
²⁹He ^(AS)made the storm be still,
    and the waves of the sea were hushed.
³⁰Then they were glad that the waters^[c] were quiet,
    and he brought them to their desired haven.
³¹^(AT)Let them thank the Lord for his steadfast love,
    for his wondrous works to the children of man!
³²Let them ^(AU)extol him in ^(AV)the congregation of the people,
    and praise him in the assembly of the elders.

³³He ^(AW)turns rivers into a desert,
    springs of water into thirsty ground,
³⁴^(AX)a fruitful land into a salty waste,
    because of the evil of its inhabitants.
³⁵He ^(AY)turns a desert into pools of water,
    ^(AZ)a parched land into springs of water.
³⁶And there he lets the hungry dwell,
    and they establish ^(BA)a city to live in;
³⁷they sow fields and plant vineyards
    and get a fruitful yield.
³⁸^(BB)By his blessing they multiply greatly,
    and he does not let their livestock diminish.

³⁹When they are diminished and brought low
    through oppression, evil, and sorrow,
⁴⁰^(BC)he pours contempt on princes
    and ^(BD)makes them wander ^(BE)in trackless wastes;
⁴¹but ^(BF)he raises up the needy out of affliction
    and ^(BG)makes their families like flocks.
⁴²^(BH)The upright see it and are glad,
    and ^(BI)all wickedness shuts its mouth.

⁴³^(BJ)Whoever is wise, let him attend to these things;
let them consider the steadfast love of the Lord.

Footnotes

Psalm 107:2 Or from the hand of the foe
Psalm 107:27 Hebrew and all their wisdom was swallowed up
Psalm 107:30 Hebrew they

Jeremiah 8

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8 “At that time, declares the Lord, the bones of the kings of Judah, the bones of its officials, the bones of the priests, the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the inhabitants of Jerusalem shall be brought out of their tombs. ²And they shall be spread ^(A)before the sun and the moon and all the host of heaven, which they have loved and served, which they have gone after, and which they have sought and worshiped. ^(B)And they shall not be gathered or buried. ^(C)They shall be as dung on the surface of the ground. ³^(D)Death shall be preferred to life by all the remnant that remains of this evil family ^(E)in all the places where I have driven them, declares the Lord of hosts.

Sin and Treachery

⁴“You shall say to them, Thus says the Lord:
^(F)When men fall, do they not rise again?
    If one turns away, does he not return?
⁵Why then has this people ^(G)turned away
    in perpetual ^(H)backsliding?
^(I)They hold fast to deceit;
    they refuse to return.
⁶^(J)I have paid attention and listened,
    but they have not spoken rightly;
no man relents of his evil,
    saying, ‘What have I done?’
Everyone turns to his own course,
    ^(K)like a horse plunging headlong into battle.
⁷Even the stork in the heavens
    knows her times,
and ^(L)the turtledove, ^(M)swallow, and crane^[a]
    keep the time of their coming,
^(N)but my people know not
    the rules^[b] of the Lord.

⁸^(O)“How can you say, ‘We are wise,
    and the law of the Lord is with us’?
But behold, the lying pen of the scribes
    has made it into a lie.
⁹^(P)The wise men shall be put to shame;
    they shall be dismayed ^(Q)and taken;
behold, they have rejected the word of the Lord,
    so what wisdom is in them?
¹⁰^(R)Therefore I will give their wives to others
    and their fields to conquerors,
because from the least to the greatest
    everyone ^(S)is greedy for unjust gain;
from prophet to priest,
    everyone deals falsely.
¹¹They have healed ^(T)the wound of my people lightly,
    saying, ‘Peace, peace,’
    when there is no peace.
¹²Were they ashamed when they committed abomination?
    No, ^(U)they were not at all ashamed;
    they did not know how to blush.
^(V)Therefore they shall fall among the fallen;
    when I punish them, they shall be overthrown,
says the Lord.
¹³When I would gather them, declares the Lord,
    there are ^(W)no grapes on the vine,
    ^(X)nor figs on the fig tree;
^(Y)even the leaves are withered,
    and what I gave them has passed away from them.”^[c]

¹⁴Why do we sit still?
^(Z)Gather together; ^(AA)let us go into the fortified cities
    and perish there,
for the Lord our God has doomed us to perish
    and has ^(AB)given us ^(AC)poisoned water to drink,
    because we have sinned against the Lord.
¹⁵^(AD)We looked for peace, but no good came;
    for a time of healing, but behold, terror.

¹⁶^(AE)“The snorting of their horses is heard ^(AF)from Dan;
    at the sound of the neighing ^(AG)of their stallions
    ^(AH)the whole land quakes.
They come ^(AI)and devour the land and all that fills it,
    the city and those who dwell in it.
¹⁷For behold, I am sending among you ^(AJ)serpents,
    adders ^(AK)that cannot be charmed,
    ^(AL)and they shall bite you,”
declares the Lord.

Jeremiah Grieves for His People

¹⁸My joy is gone; grief is upon me;^[d]
    ^(AM)my heart is sick within me.
¹⁹Behold, the cry of the daughter of my people
    from ^(AN)the length and breadth of the land:
“Is the Lord not in Zion?
    ^(AO)Is her King not in her?”
^(AP)“Why have they provoked me to anger with their carved images
    and with their foreign idols?”
²⁰“The harvest is past, the summer is ended,
    and we are not saved.”
²¹For the wound of ^(AQ)the daughter of my people is my heart wounded;
    ^(AR)I mourn, and dismay has taken hold on me.