1The burden of Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite.
2Elohim (God) is jealous, and Yahuah (LORD) revengeth; Yahuah (LORD) revengeth, and is furious; Yahuah (LORD) will take vengeance on his adversaries, and he reserveth wrath for his enemies.
3Yahuah (LORD) is slow to anger, and great in power, and will not at all acquit the wicked: Yahuah (LORD) has his way in the whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet.
4He rebuketh the sea, and makes it dry, and dries up all the rivers: Bashan languisheth, and Carmel, and the flower of Lebanon languisheth.
5The mountains quake at him, and the hills melt, and the earth is burned at his presence, yea, the world, and all that dwell therein.
6Who 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.
7Yahuah (LORD) is good, a strong hold in the day of trouble; and he knows them that trust in him.
8But with an overrunning flood he will make an utter end of the place thereof, and darkness shall pursue his enemies.
9What do you imagine against Yahuah (LORD)? he will make an utter end: affliction shall not rise up the second time.
10For while they be folden together as thorns, and while they are drunken as drunkards, they shall be devoured as stubble fully dry.
11There is one come out of you, that imagineth evil against Yahuah (LORD), a wicked counsellor.
12Thus says Yahuah (LORD); Though they be quiet, and likewise many, yet thus shall they be cut down, when he shall pass through. Though I have afflicted you, I will afflict you no more.
13For now will I break his yoke from off you, and will burst your bonds in sunder.
14And Yahuah (LORD) 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 graven image and the molten image: I will make your grave; for you are vile.
15Behold upon the mountains the feet of him that brings good tidings, that publisheth peace! O Yahudah (Judah), keep your solemn feasts, perform your vows: for the wicked shall no more pass through you; he is utterly cut off.