Nahum 1:1-8
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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.
Footnotes
- Nahum 1:8 Hebrew of her place
Nahum 1:14
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14 The Lord has given commandment about you:
(A)“No more shall your name be perpetuated;
from (B)the house of your gods I will cut off
the carved image and the metal image.
(C)I will make your grave, (D)for you are vile.”
Nahum 2:13
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13 (A)Behold, I am against you, declares the Lord of hosts, and (B)I will burn your[a] chariots in smoke, and the sword shall devour your young lions. I will cut off your prey from the earth, and (C)the voice of your messengers shall no longer be heard.
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- Nahum 2:13 Hebrew her
Nahum 3:7
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7 And all who look at you (A)will shrink from you and say,
“Wasted is (B)Nineveh; (C)who will grieve for her?”
(D)Where shall I seek comforters for you?
Jonah 1:1-2
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Jonah Flees the Presence of the Lord
1 Now the word of the Lord came to (A)Jonah the son of Amittai, saying, 2 “Arise, go to (B)Nineveh, that (C)great city, and call out against it, (D)for their evil[a] has come up before me.”
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- Jonah 1:2 The same Hebrew word can mean evil or disaster, depending on the context; so throughout Jonah
Jonah 3:5
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5 (A)And the people of Nineveh believed God. (B)They called for a fast and (C)put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them to the least of them.
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Jonah 3:10
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10 When God saw what they did, (A)how they turned from their evil way, (B)God relented of the disaster that he had said he would do to them, and he did not do it.
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