Nachum, starting at chapter 1
{1:1} An oracle about Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nachum the
Elkoshite. {1:2} The LORD is a jealous God and avenges. The LORD
avenges and is full of wrath. The LORD takes vengeance on his
adversaries, and he maintains wrath against his enemies. {1:3} The
LORD is slow to anger, and great in power, and will by no means leave
the guilty unpunished. The LORD has his way in the whirlwind and in
the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet. {1:4} He rebukes
the sea, and makes it dry, and dries up all the rivers. Bashan
languishes, and Karmel; and the flower of Levanon languishes. {1:5}
The mountains quake before him, and the hills melt away. The
[1>]eretz[<1] trembles at his presence, yes, the world, and all who
dwell in it. {1:6} Who can stand before his indignation? Who can
endure the fierceness of his anger? His wrath is poured out like fire,
and the rocks are broken apart by him. {1:7} The LORD is good, a
stronghold in the day of trouble; and he knows those who take refuge
in him. {1:8} But with an overflowing flood, he will make a full end
of her place, and will pursue his enemies into darkness. {1:9} What do
you plot against the LORD? He will make a full end. Affliction won't
rise up the second time. {1:10} For entangled like thorns, and drunken
as with their drink, they are consumed utterly like dry stubble.
{1:11} There is one gone forth out of you, who devises evil against
the LORD, who counsels wickedness. {1:12} Thus says the LORD: "Though
they be in full strength, and likewise many, even so they will be cut
down, and he shall pass away. Though I have afflicted you, I will
afflict you no more. {1:13} Now will I break his yoke from off you,
and will burst your bonds apart." {1:14} The LORD has commanded
concerning you: "No more descendants will bear your name. Out of the
house of your gods, will I cut off the engraved image and the molten
image. I will make your grave, for you are vile."
{1:15} Behold, on the mountains the feet of him who brings good
news, who publishes shalom! Keep your feasts, Yehudah! Perform your
vows, for the wicked one will no more pass through you. He is utterly
cut off.
{2:1} He who dashes in pieces has come up against you. Keep the
fortress! Watch the way! Strengthen your loins! Fortify your power
mightily! {2:2} For the LORD restores the excellency of Ya`akov, as
the excellency of Yisra'el; for the destroyers have destroyed them,
and ruined their vine branches. {2:3} The shield of his mighty men is
made red. The valiant men are in scarlet. The chariots flash with
steel in the day of his preparation, and the pine spears are
brandished. {2:4} The chariots rage in the streets. They rush back and
forth in the broad ways. Their appearance is like torches. They run
like the lightnings. {2:5} He summons his picked troops. They stumble
on their way. They dash to its wall, and the protective shield is put
in place. {2:6} The gates of the rivers are opened, and the palace is
dissolved. {2:7} It is decreed: she is uncovered, she is carried away;
and her handmaids moan as with the voice of doves, beating on their
breasts. {2:8} But Nineveh has been from of old like a pool of water,
yet they flee away. "Stop! Stop!" they cry, but no one looks back.
{2:9} Take the spoil of silver. Take the spoil of gold, for there is
no end of the store, the glory of all goodly furniture. {2:10} She is
empty, void, and waste. The heart melts, the knees knock together,
their bodies and faces have grown pale. {2:11} Where is the den of the
lions, and the feeding-place of the young lions, where the lion and
the lioness walked, the lion's cubs, and no one made them afraid?
{2:12} The lion tore in pieces enough for his cubs, and strangled for
his lionesses, and filled his caves with the kill, and his dens with
prey. {2:13} "Behold, I am against you," says the LORD of Hosts, "and
I will burn her chariots in the smoke, and the sword will devour your
young lions; and I will cut off your prey from the [1>]eretz[<1], and
the voice of your messengers will no longer be heard."
{3:1} Woe to the bloody city! It is all full of lies and robbery.
The prey doesn't depart. {3:2} The noise of the whip, the noise of the
rattling of wheels, prancing horses, and bounding chariots, {3:3} the
horseman mounting, and the flashing sword, the glittering spear, and a
multitude of slain, and a great heap of corpses, and there is no end
of the bodies. They stumble on their bodies, {3:4} because of the
multitude of the prostitution of the alluring prostitute, the mistress
of witchcraft, who sells nations through her prostitution, and
families through her witchcraft. {3:5} "Behold, I am against you,"
says the LORD of Hosts, "and I will lift your skirts over your face. I
will show the nations your nakedness, and the kingdoms your shame.
{3:6} I will throw abominable filth on you, and make you vile, and
will set you a spectacle. {3:7} It will happen that all those who look
at you will flee from you, and say, 'Nineveh is laid waste Who will
mourn for her?' Where will I seek comforters for you?"
{3:8} Are you better than No-Amon, who was situated among the
rivers, who had the waters around her; whose rampart was the sea, and
her wall was of the sea? {3:9} Kush and Mitzrayim were her boundless
strength. Put and Luvim were her helpers. {3:10} Yet was she carried
away. She went into captivity. Her young children also were dashed in
pieces at the head of all the streets, and they cast lots for her
honorable men, and all her great men were bound in chains. {3:11} You
also will be drunken. You will be hidden. You also will seek a
stronghold because of the enemy. {3:12} All your fortresses will be
like fig trees with the first-ripe figs: if they are shaken, they fall
into the mouth of the eater. {3:13} Behold, your troops in your midst
are women. The gates of your land are set wide open to your enemies.
The fire has devoured your bars. {3:14} Draw water for the siege.
Strengthen your fortresses. Go into the clay, and tread the mortar.
Make the brick kiln strong. {3:15} There the fire will devour you. The
sword will cut you off. It will devour you like the [1>]khagav[<1].
Multiply like grasshoppers. Multiply like the [2>]arbeh[<2]. {3:16}
You have increased your merchants more than the stars of the skies.
The grasshopper strips, and flees away. {3:17} Your guards are like
the locusts, and your officials like the swarms of locusts, which
settle on the walls on a cold day, but when the sun appears, they flee
away, and their place is not known where they are. {3:18} Your
shepherds slumber, king of Ashshur. Your nobles lie down. Your people
are scattered on the mountains, and there is no one to gather them.
{3:19} There is no healing your wound, for your injury is fatal. All
who hear the report of you clap their hands over you; for who hasn't
felt your endless cruelty?
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Footnotes:
[1] {1:5} earth
[1] {2:13} earth
[1] {3:15} grasshopper
[2] {3:15} locust
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