Nah 1
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The burden of Nineve: the book of the vision of Naum the Elkesite.
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God is jealous, and the Lord avenges; the Lord avenges with anger; the Lord takes
vengeance on his adversaries, and he cuts off his enemies.
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The Lord is long-suffering, and his power is great, and the Lord will not hold any
guiltless: his way is in destruction and in the whirlwind, and the clouds are the
dust of his feet.
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He threatens the sea, and dries it up, and exhausts all the rivers: the land of Basan,
and Carmel are brought low, and the flourishing trees of Libanus have come to nothing.
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The mountains quake Gr. by him at him, and the hills are shaken, and the earth recoils at his presence, even the
world, and all that dwell in it.
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Who shall stand before his anger? and who shall withstand in the anger of his anger?
his anger brings to nothing kingdoms, and the rocks are burst asunder by him.
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The Lord is good to them that wait on him in the day of affliction; and he knows them
that reverence him.
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But with an overrunning flood he will make an utter end: darkness shall pursue those
that rise up against him and his enemies.
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What do you devise against the Lord? he will make a complete end: he will not take
vengeance by affliction twice at the same time.
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For the enemy shall be laid bare even to the foundation, and shall be devoured as
twisted yew, and as stubble fully dry.
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Out of you shall proceed a device against the Lord, counselling evil things hostile
to him.
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Thus says the Lord who rules over many waters, Even thus shall they be sent away,
and the report of you shall not be heard any more.
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And now will I break his rod from off you, and will burst your bonds.
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And the Lord shall give a command concerning you; there shall no more of your name
be scattered: I will utterly destroy the graven images out of the house of your god,
and the molten images: I will make your grave; for they are swift.
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Behold upon the mountains the feet of him whom brings glad tidings, and publishes
peace! O Juda, keep your feasts, pay your vows: for they shall no more pass through
you to Compare Heb your decay.