Chapter 1

Ninive shall be destroyed, not able to escape God's powerful wrath. ℣.9 The Assirians shall not prevail against Jerusalem: ℣.13 but themselves shall be slain.

1. 1

   The burden of Ninive. The Book of the vision of Nahum the Elceseite. jealous, & our Lord revenging, our Lord

2. 2

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

3. 3

   Our 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.

4. 4

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

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

6. 6

   Before 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.

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

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

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

10. 10

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

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

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    Thus 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.

13. 13

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

14. 14

    And 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.

15. 15

    Behold 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.