Nahum 1

1The pronouncement # 1:1 Is 13:1; 30:6; Jr 18:18; Ezk 12:10; Hab 1:1; Zch 9:1; 12:1; Mal 1:1 concerning Nineveh. # 1:1 Jnh 3:3–4; 4:11; Nah 2:8; Zph 2:13 The book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite.

God’s Vengeance

2The Lord is a jealous and avenging God;

the Lord takes vengeance

and is fierce in # 1:2 Lit is a master of wrath.

The Lord takes vengeance against his foes; # 1:2 Dt 32:35,41,43; Ps 94:1; 149:7; Is 1:24; 59:17; Jr 5:9,29; 9:9; 46:10; 50:15; 51:6,11,36; Ezk 25:14–17; Mc 5:15; 2Th 1:8; Heb 10:30

he is furious with his enemies. # 1:2 Dt 6:15; Ps 94:1; Is 63:1–6; Jr 46:10; 50:28–29; Mc 5:15; Zph 1:18

3The Lord is slow to anger but great in power;

the Lord will never leave the guilty unpunished. # 1:3 Ex 34:6–7; Nm 14:18

His path is in the whirlwind and storm, # 1:3 Pr 1:27; 10:25; Is 66:15; Jr 4:13; Hs 8:7

and clouds are the dust beneath his feet. # 1:3 Dt 33:26; Ps 68:4; 104:3; Mt 24:30; 26:64

4He rebukes the sea and dries it up,

and he makes all the rivers run dry. # 1:4 2Sm 22:16; Ps 106:9; Is 50:2; Mt 8:26

Bashan and Carmel wither; # 1:4 Is 33:9; Jr 50:19

even the flower of Lebanon withers.

5The mountains quake before him,

and the hills melt;

the earth trembles # 1:5 Some emend to earth is laid waste,# 1:5 Lit lifts at his presence —

the world and all who live in it. # 1:5 Jdg 5:5; Ps 18:7; 46:2–3; 97:5; Is 5:25; 64:1,3; Jr 4:24; Am 8:8; Mc 1:4

6Who can withstand his indignation?

Who can endure his burning anger? # 1:6 Ps 7:11; 69:24; 78:49; Jl 2:11; Mal 3:2

His wrath is poured out like fire; # 1:6 Ps 21:9; Is 9:19; 30:30; Jr 4:4; Lm 4:11; Ezk 22:20; Zph 1:18

even rocks are shattered before him.

Destruction of Nineveh

7The Lord is good,

a stronghold in a day of distress;

he cares for those who take refuge # 1:7 2Sm 22:3; Ps 17:7; 34:8 in him.

8But he will completely destroy Nineveh # 1:8 Lit her place

with an overwhelming flood, # 1:8 Nah 2:6

and he will chase his enemies into darkness.

9Whatever you # 1:9 = Nineveh plot against the Lord,

he will bring it to complete destruction; # 1:9 Ps 2:1–4

oppression will not rise up a second time.

10For they will be consumed

like entangled thorns, # 1:10 Mal 4:1

like the drink of a drunkard

and like straw that is fully dry. # 1:10 Hb obscure

11One has gone out from you, # 1:11 Possibly Nineveh

who plots evil against the Lord,

and is a wicked counselor.

Promise of Judah’s Deliverance

12This is what the Lord says:

Though they are strong # 1:12 Litintact and numerous,

they will still be mowed down,

and he # 1:12 Either the king of Assyria or his army will pass away.

Though I have punished you, # 1:12 = Judah,# 1:12 Is 10:5–34

I will punish you no longer. # 1:12 Ps 30:5; 103:9; Is 54:8

13For I will now break off his yoke from you

and tear off your shackles.

The Assyrian King’s Demise

14The Lord has issued an order concerning you:

There will be no offspring

to carry on your name. # 1:14 LitIt will not be sown from your name any longer,# 1:14 Lv 20:3; 1Sm 24:21; Ps 89:4; Is 48:19; 66:22

I will eliminate the carved idol and cast image

from the house of your gods; # 1:14 Dt 27:15; Jdg 18:14

I will prepare your grave,

for you are contemptible.

15Look to the mountains —

the feet of the herald, # 1:15 Is 52:7; 61:1; Rm 10:15

who proclaims peace.

Celebrate your festivals, Judah;

fulfill your vows.

For the wicked one will never again

march through you;

he will be entirely wiped out.

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Nachum 1

1The burden concerning Nineveh. The sefer chazon (book of the vision) of Nachum of Elkosh.

2A jealous G-d and taking vengeance is Hashem;

an avenger is Hashem, Ba'al Chemah (L-rd of Wrathful Fury);

Hashem will take vengeance on His adversaries,

and He reserveth wrath for His enemies.

3 Hashem is slow to anger,

and great in ko'ach,

and will not at all leave the guilty unpunished;

Hashem hath His way in the whirlwind and in the tempest,

and the anan (clouds) are the dust of His feet.

4 Hashem rebuketh the yam, and drieth it up,

and maketh all the neharot (rivers) run dry;

Bashan languisheth, and Carmel,

and the flower of the Levanon fadeth.

5The mountains quake before Hashem,

and the hills melt away,

and ha'aretz heaveth at His presence,

yea, tevel (the world), and all that dwell therein.

6Who can stand before Hashemʼs fury?

And who can endure His charon af (burning anger)?#1:6 See Ro 1:18

His chemah (wrath) is poured out like eish (fire)

and the tzurim (rocks) are rent in pieces before Him.

7 Hashem is tov,

a maoz (stronghold) in the Yom Tzarah;

and Hashem knoweth them that take refuge in Him.

8But with an overwhelming flood

He will make an utter end of her#1:8 Ninevehʼs site,

and Hashem shall pursue His enemies into choshech.

9Whatever plot ye against Hashem,

Hashem will make an utter end of anyone doing it;

tzarah (affliction) will not arise a second time.

10For while they be twisted together as sirim (thorns),

and while they are drunken as drunkards,

they shall be devoured as stubble fully dry.

11There is one come out of thee,#1:11 See 1:1

that imagineth evil against Hashem,

a yo'etz Beliya'al (a counselor of Beliya'al).#1:11 i.e., Sennacherib

12Thus saith Hashem:

Though they are strong, and likewise rabbim,

yet shall they thus be cut down, and he#1:12 the Assyrian shall pass away.

Though I have afflicted thee [O Yehudah],

I will afflict thee no more.

13For now will I break his motah (yoke) from off thee,

and will break thy fetters in pieces.

14And Hashem hath given a command concerning thee,

that no more of thy name be sown;#1:14 i.e., to perpetuate his name

out of the bais of thy g-ds will I cut off

the pesel (graven image) and the molten image;

I prepare thy kever (grave);

for thou art vile.

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