Nahum 1

¹The burden of Ninive. The Book of the vision of Nahum the Elceseite.

²God is jealous, & our Lord revenging, our Lord revenging, and having fury: our Lord revenging on his adversaries, and he is angry with his enemies.

³Our Lord is patient, and great of strength, and cleansing, he will not make innocent. Our Lord's ways in tempest, & whirlwind, & clouds, the dust of his feet.

⁴Rebuking the sea, & drying it up: & bringing all rivers to a desert. Basan is weakened & Carmel: & the flower of Libanus is faded.

⁵The mountains were moved at him, and the hills were desolate: and the earth hath trembled at his presence, & the world, & all that dwell therein.

⁶Before the face of his indignation who shall stand? & who shall resist in the wrath of his fury? His indignation is poured out as fire: and the rocks are dissolved by him.

⁷Our Lord is good, & strengthening in the day of tribulation: & knowing them that hope in him.

⁸And in a flood passing by, he will make a consummation of the place thereof: & darkness shall pursue his enemies.

⁹What think ye against our Lord? Consummation he will make: there shall not rise double tribulation.

¹⁰Because as thorns clasp one another: so the feast of them that drink together: they shall be consumed as stubble full of dryness.

¹¹Out of thee shall come forth one that thinketh malice against our Lord in the mind devising prevarication.

¹²Thus saith our Lord: If they shall be perfect: and so a great many, so also shall they be shorn, and he shall pass by: I have afflicted thee, and I will afflict thee no more.

¹³And now I will break his rod from off thy back, & I will burst thy bonds in sunder.

¹⁴And Our Lord will command upon thee, there shall not be sown of thy name any more: out of the house of thy God I will destroy sculptile, & molten, I will put thy grave, because thou art dishonoured.

¹⁵Behold upon the mountains the feet of him that Evangelizeth, and preacheth peace: celebrate, o Juda, thy festivities, and render thy vows: because Belial shall no more add to pass through thee, he is wholly perished.