Nah 1
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The burden of Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite.
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YHWH is a jealous God and avenges; YHWH avenges and is full of anger; YHWH takes vengeance
on his adversaries, and he reserves [anger] for his enemies.
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YHWH is slow to anger, and great in power, and will by no means clear [the guilty]:
YHWH has his way in the whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of
his feet.
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He rebukes the sea, and makes it dry, and dries up all the rivers: Bashan languishes,
and Carmel; and the flower of Lebanon languishes.
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The mountains quake at him, and the hills melt; and the earth is upheaved at his presence,
yea, the world, and all that dwell therein.
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Who can stand before his indignation? and who can abide in the fierceness of his anger?
his anger is poured out like fire, and the rocks are broken asunder by him.
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YHWH is good, a stronghold in the day of trouble; and he knows them that take refuge
in him.
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But with an over-running flood he will make a full end of her place, and will pursue
his enemies into darkness.
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What do you devise against YHWH? he will make a full end; affliction shall not rise
up the second time.
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For entangled like thorns, and drunken as with their drink, they are consumed utterly
as dry stubble.
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There is one gone forth out of you, that devises evil against YHWH, that counsels
wickedness.
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Thus says YHWH: Though they be in full strength, and likewise many, even so shall
they be cut down, and he shall pass away. Though I have afflicted you, I will afflict
you no more.
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And now will I break his yoke from off you, and will burst your bonds in sunder.
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And YHWH has given commandment concerning you, that no more of your name be sown:
out of the house of your gods will I cut off the graven image and the molten image;
I will make your grave; for you are vile.
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Behold, upon the mountains the feet of him whom brings good tidings, that publishes
peace! Keep your feasts, O Judah, perform your vows; for the wicked one shall no more
pass through you; he is utterly cut off.