The burden of Nineve. The book of the vision of Naĥum the Elqoshite.

The Lord is a jealous and revenging God; the Lord revenges, and is full of wrath; the Lord takes vengeance on his adversaries, and he keeps wrath for his enemies.

The Lord is slow to anger, and great in power, and will by no means acquit the wicked: the Lord, his way is in the tempest and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet.

He rebukes the sea, and makes it dry, and dries up all the rivers: Bashan languishes, and Karmel, and the flower of Levanon fades.

The mountains quake at him, and the hills melt, and the earth is aroused at his presence, both the world, and all that dwell in it.

Who can stand before his indignation? and who can abide in the fierceness of his anger? his fury is poured out like fire, and the rocks are broken up by him.

The Lord is good, a stronghold in the day of trouble; and he knows them that trust in him.

But with an overrunning flood he will make an utter end of her place, and darkness shall pursue his enemies.

What do you contrive against the Lord? he will make an utter end: affliction shall not rise up the second time.

For they are entangled with thorns, drunken as with their drink; they are devoured as stubble fully dry.

There is one come out of thee, that contrives evil against the Lord, a wicked counsellor.

Thus says the Lord; Though they are at peace, and likewise many, even so they shall be cut down, and it shall pass away. Though I have afflicted thee, I will afflict thee no more.

For now will I break his yoke from off thee, and will burst thy bonds asunder.

And the Lord has given a commandment concerning thee, that no more of thy name be sown: out of the house of thy gods will I cut off the carved idol and the molten image: I will make thy grave; for thou art vile.