11  The burden of Nineveh The book of the vision of Nahum the

Elkohshite .

 12  God is jealous and the LORD revengeth the LORD revengeth

and is furious the LORD will take vengeance on his adversaries

and he reserveth wrath for his enemies .

 13  The LORD is slow to anger and great in power and will not

at all acquit the wicked the LORD hath his way in the whirlwind

and in the storm and the clouds are the dust of his feet .

 14  He rebuketh the sea and maketh it dry and drieth up all the

rivers Bashan languisheth and Carmel and the flower of Lebanon

languisheth .

 15  The mountains quake at him and the hills melt and the earth

is burned at his presence yea the world and all that dwell

therein .

 16  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 .

 17  The LORD is good a strong hold in the day of trouble and he

knoweth them that trust in him .

 18  But with an overrunning flood he will make an utter end of

the place thereof and darkness shall pursue his enemies .

 19  What do ye imagine against the LORD he will make an utter

end affliction shall not rise up the second time .

 110  For while they be folden together as thorns and while they

are drunken as drunkards they shall be devoured as stubble fully

dry .

 111  There is one come out of thee that imagineth evil against

the LORD a wicked counsellor .

 112  Thus saith the LORD Though they be quiet and likewise many

yet thus shall they be cut down when he shall pass through

Though I have afflicted thee I will afflict thee no more .

 113  For now will I break his yoke from off thee and will burst

thy bonds in sunder .

 114  And the LORD hath given a commandment concerning thee that

no more of thy name be sown out of the house of thy gods will I

cut off the graven image and the molten image I will make thy

grave for thou art vile .

 115  Behold upon the mountains the feet of him that bringeth

good tidings that publisheth peace O Judah keep thy solemn

feasts perform thy vows for the wicked shall no more pass

through thee he is utterly cut off .

* 21  He that dasheth in pieces is come up before thy face keep

the munition watch the way make thy loins strong fortify thy

power mightily .

 22  For the LORD hath turned away the excellency of Jacob as

the excellency of Israel for the emptiers have emptied them out

and marred their vine branches .

 23  The shield of his mighty men is made red the valiant men

are in scarlet the chariots shall be with flaming torches in the

day of his preparation and the fir trees shall be terribly

shaken .

 24  The chariots shall rage in the streets they shall justle

one against another in the broad ways they shall seem like

torches they shall run like the lightnings .

 25  He shall recount his worthies they shall stumble in their

walk they shall make haste to the wall thereof and the defence

shall be prepared .

 26  The gates of the rivers shall be opened and the palace

shall be dissolved .

 27  And Huzzab shall be led away captive she shall be brought

up and her maids shall lead her as with the voice of doves

tabering upon their breasts .

 28  But Nineveh is of old like a pool of water yet they shall

flee away Stand stand shall they cry but none shall look back .

 29  Take ye the spoil of silver take the spoil of gold for

there is none end of the store and glory out of all the pleasant

furniture .

 210  She is empty and void and waste and the heart melteth and

the knees smite together and much pain is in all loins and the

faces of them all gather blackness .

 211  Where is the dwelling of the lions and the feedingplace of

the young lions where the lion even the old lion walked and the

lion's whelp and none made them afraid .

 212  The lion did tear in pieces enough for his whelps and

strangled for his lionesses and filled his holes with prey and

his dens with ravin .

 213  Behold I am against thee saith the LORD of hosts and I

will burn her chariots in the smoke and the sword shall devour

thy young lions and I will cut off thy prey from the earth and

the voice of thy messengers shall no more be heard  .

* 31  Woe to the bloody city it is all full of lies and robbery

the prey departeth not .

 32  The noise of a whip and the noise of the rattling of the

wheels and of the prancing horses and of the jumping chariots .

 33  The horseman lifteth up both the bright sword and the

glittering spear and there is a multitude of slain and a great

number of carcases and there is none end of their corpses they

stumble upon their corpses .

 34  Because of the multitude of the whoredoms of the

wellfavoured harlot the mistress of witchcrafts that selleth

nations through her whoredoms and families through her

witchcrafts .

 35  Behold I am against thee saith the LORD of hosts and I will

discover thy skirts upon thy face and I will show the nations

thy nakedness and the kingdoms thy shame .

 36  And I will cast abominable filth upon thee and make thee

vile and will set thee as a gazingstock .

 37  And it shall come to pass that all they that look upon thee

shall flee from thee and say Nineveh is laid waste who will

bemoan her whence shall I seek comforters for thee .

 38  Art thou better than populous No that was situate among the

rivers that had the waters round about it whose rampart was the

sea and her wall was from the sea .

 39  Ethiopia and Egypt were her strength and it was infinite

Put and Lubim were thy helpers .

 310  Yet was she carried away she went into captivity her young

children also were dashed in pieces at the top of all the

streets and they cast lots for her honourable men and all her

great men were bound in chains .

 311  Thou also shalt be drunken thou shalt be hid thou also

shalt seek strength because of the enemy .

 312  All thy strong holds shall be like fig trees with the

firstripe figs if they be shaken they shall even fall into the

mouth of the eater .

 313  Behold thy people in the midst of thee are women the gates

of thy land shall be set wide open unto thine enemies the fire

shall devour thy bars .

 314  Draw thee waters for the siege fortify thy strong holds go

into clay and tread the mortar make strong the brickkiln .

 315  There shall the fire devour thee the sword shall cut thee

off it shall eat thee up like the cankerworm make thyself many

as the cankerworm make thyself many as the locusts .

 316  Thou hast multiplied thy merchants above the stars of

heaven the cankerworm spoileth and fleeth away .

 317  Thy crowned are as the locusts and thy captains as the

great grasshoppers which camp in the hedges in the cold day but

when the sun ariseth they flee away and their place is not known

where they are .

 318  Thy shepherds slumber O king of Assyria thy nobles shall

dwell in the dust thy people is scattered upon the mountains and

no man gathereth them .

 319  There is no healing of thy bruise thy wound is grievous

all that hear the bruit of thee shall clap the hands over thee

for upon whom hath not thy wickedness passed continually .

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