12 Thus says the Lord,
“Though they are at full strength and many,
    (A)they will be cut down and pass away.
(B)Though I have afflicted you,
    I will afflict you no more.

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19 The Lord answered and said to his people,
“Behold, (A)I am sending to you
    grain, wine, and oil,
    (B)and you will be satisfied;
and I will no more make you
    a reproach among the nations.

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16 (A)They shall hunger no more, neither thirst anymore;
    (B)the sun shall not strike them,
    nor any scorching heat.

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15 [a] (A)Behold, upon the mountains, (B)the feet of him
    who brings good news,
    who publishes peace!
(C)Keep your feasts, O Judah;
    (D)fulfill your vows,
(E)for never again shall the worthless pass through you;
    he is utterly cut off.

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Footnotes

  1. Nahum 1:15 Ch 2:1 in Hebrew

10 “His sons shall wage war and assemble a multitude of great forces, which shall keep coming (A)and overflow and pass through, and again shall carry the war as far as his (B)fortress.

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22 Thus says your Lord, the Lord,
    your God (A)who pleads the cause of his people:
“Behold, I have taken from your hand (B)the cup of staggering;
the bowl of my wrath you shall drink no more;

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36 (A)And the angel of the Lord went out and struck down 185,000 in the camp of the Assyrians. And when people arose early in the morning, behold, these were all dead bodies.

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(A)“And the Assyrian shall fall by a sword, not of man;
    and a sword, not of man, shall devour him;
and he shall flee from the sword,
    and his young men shall be (B)put to forced labor.

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19 For a people shall dwell (A)in Zion, in Jerusalem; you shall weep no more. He will surely be gracious to you at the sound of your cry. As soon as he hears it, he answers you.

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14 (A)At evening time, behold, terror!
    Before morning, they are no more!
This is the portion of those who loot us,
    and the lot of those who plunder us.

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An Oracle Concerning Assyria

24 The Lord of hosts has sworn:
(A)“As I have planned,
    so shall it be,
and as I have purposed,
    so shall it stand,
25 that (B)I will break the Assyrian in my land,
    and on my mountains trample him underfoot;
and (C)his yoke shall depart from them,
    and (D)his burden from their shoulder.”

26 This is the purpose that is purposed
    concerning the whole earth,
and this is (E)the hand that is stretched out
    over all the nations.
27 (F)For the Lord of hosts has purposed,
    and who will annul it?
(G)His hand is stretched out,
    and who will turn it back?

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32 This very day he will halt at (A)Nob;
    he will shake his fist
    at the mount of (B)the daughter of Zion,
    the hill of Jerusalem.

33 Behold, the Lord God of hosts
    (C)will lop (D)the boughs with terrifying power;
the great in height will be hewn down,
    and the lofty will be brought low.
34 He will cut down (E)the thickets of the forest with an axe,
    and (F)Lebanon will fall by the Majestic One.

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and it will sweep on into Judah, it will overflow and pass on, (A)reaching even to the neck, and its (B)outspread wings will fill the breadth of your land, (C)O Immanuel.”

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20 In that day (A)the Lord will (B)shave with a razor that is (C)hired beyond (D)the River[a]—with the king of Assyria—the head and the hair of the feet, and it will sweep away the beard also.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 7:20 That is, the Euphrates

31 (A)For the Lord will not
    cast off forever,
32 but, though he (B)cause grief, (C)he will have compassion
    (D)according to the abundance of his steadfast love;

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37 And as he was worshiping in the house of Nisroch his god, (A)Adrammelech and Sharezer, his sons, struck him down with the sword and escaped into the land of Ararat. And Esarhaddon his son reigned in his place.

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35 And that night (A)the angel of the Lord went out and struck down 185,000 in the camp of the Assyrians. And when people arose early in the morning, behold, these were all dead bodies.

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12 For (A)I will pass through the land of Egypt that night, and I will strike all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and on (B)all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgments: (C)I am the Lord.

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18 (A)Violence shall no more be heard in your land,
    devastation or destruction within your borders;
(B)you shall call your walls Salvation,
    and your gates Praise.

19 (C)The sun shall be no more
    your light by day,
nor for brightness shall the moon
    give you light;[a]
but the Lord will be your everlasting light,
    and your God will be your glory.[b]
20 Your sun shall no more go down,
    nor your moon withdraw itself;
for the Lord will be your everlasting light,
    and (D)your days of mourning shall be ended.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 60:19 Masoretic Text; Dead Sea Scroll, Septuagint, Targum add by night
  2. Isaiah 60:19 Or your beauty

28 (A)his breath is (B)like an overflowing stream
    that reaches up to the neck;
to sift the nations with the sieve of destruction,
    and to place on the jaws of the peoples (C)a bridle that leads astray.

29 You shall have a song as in the night when a holy feast is kept, and gladness of heart, (D)as when one sets out to the sound of the flute to go to (E)the mountain of the Lord, to (F)the Rock of Israel. 30 And the Lord (G)will cause his majestic voice to be heard and the descending blow of his arm to be seen, in furious anger (H)and a flame of devouring fire, with a cloudburst (I)and storm and hailstones. 31 The Assyrians will be terror-stricken at the voice of the Lord, (J)when he strikes with his rod. 32 And every stroke of the appointed staff that the Lord lays on them (K)will be to the sound of tambourines and lyres. (L)Battling with brandished arm, he will fight with them. 33 For (M)a burning place[a] has long been prepared; indeed, for the king it is made ready, (N)its pyre made deep and wide, with fire and wood in abundance; (O)the breath of the Lord, like a stream of sulfur, kindles it.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 30:33 Or For Topheth

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