1 The burden of Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite.
2 God is jealous, and Jehovah revenges; Jehovah revenges, and is furious; Jehovah will take vengeance on his adversaries, and he reserves wrath for his enemies.
3 Jehovah is slow to anger, and great in power, and will not at all acquit the wicked: Jehovah has his way in the whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet.
4 He rebukes the sea, and makes it dry, and dries up all the rivers: Bashan languishes, and Carmel, and the flower of Lebanon languishes.
5 The mountains quake at him, and the hills melt, and the Earth is burned at his presence, yes, the world, and all that dwell therein.
6 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 thrown down by him.
7 Jehovah is good, a Place of Safety in the day of trouble, and He knows those who flee for protection in Him.
8 But with an overrunning flood he will make an utter end of the place, and darkness shall pursue his enemies.
9 What do you imagine against Jehovah ? He will make an utter end: affliction shall not rise up the second time.
10 For while they be interwoven as thorns, and while they are drunken as drunkards, they shall be devoured as stubble fully dry.
11 There is one come out of you, that imagines evil against Jehovah, a counselor of Belial.
12 Thus says Jehovah; Though they be quiet, and likewise many, yet thus they shall be cut down, when he shall pass through. Though I have afflicted you, I will humiliate you no more.
13 For now will I break his yoke from off you, and will burst your bonds in sunder.
14 And Jehovah has given a commandment concerning you, that no more of your name be sown: out of the house of your gods will I cut off the idol and the molten image: I will make your grave; for you are vile.
15 On the mountains the feet of him who brings good tidings, who publishes completeness ! Oh Judah, keep your solemn feasts, perform your vows: for Belial shall no more pass through you; he is utterly cut off.