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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>Nahum: The Book of Nahum</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/bsb/spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="/bsb/cmenus/nahum/1.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="/bsb/topmenuchap/nahum/1-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > Nahum</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="/bsb/micah/7.htm" title="Micah 7"></a> Nahum <a href="/bsb/nahum/2.htm" title="Nahum 2"></a></div></td></tr></table></div><div class="vheading2"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">Nahum 1</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/bsb/esv/nahum/1.shtml" style="color:#552200" title="Parallel Chapters"></a></tr></table></div><div class="chap">The Burden against Nineveh (<a hlef ="../jonah/1.htm">Jonah 1:1–3</a>)<a href="/nahum/1-1.htm">1</a>This is the burden against Nineveh, the book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite: <a href="/nahum/1-2.htm">2</a>The LORD is a jealous and avenging God; the LORD is avenging and full of wrath. The LORD takes vengeance on His foes and reserves wrath for His enemies. <a href="/nahum/1-3.htm">3</a>The LORD is slow to anger and great in power; the LORD will by no means leave the guilty unpunished. His path is in the whirlwind and storm, and clouds are the dust beneath His feet. <a href="/nahum/1-4.htm">4</a>He rebukes the sea and dries it up; He makes all the rivers run dry. Bashan and Carmel wither, and the flower of Lebanon wilts. <a href="/nahum/1-5.htm">5</a>The mountains quake before Him, and the hills melt away; the earth trembles at His presence— the world and all its dwellers. <a href="/nahum/1-6.htm">6</a>Who can withstand His indignation? Who can endure His burning anger? His wrath is poured out like fire; even rocks are shattered before Him. <a href="/nahum/1-7.htm">7</a>The LORD is good, a stronghold in the day of distress; He cares for those who trust in Him. <a href="/nahum/1-8.htm">8</a>But with an overwhelming flood He will make an end of Nineveh<a href="#fn">a</a> and pursue His enemies into darkness. <a href="/nahum/1-9.htm">9</a>Whatever you plot against the LORD, He will bring to an end. Affliction will not rise up a second time. <a href="/nahum/1-10.htm">10</a>For they will be entangled as with thorns and consumed like the drink of a drunkard— like stubble that is fully dry. <a href="/nahum/1-11.htm">11</a>From you, O Nineveh, comes forth a plotter of evil against the LORD, a counselor of wickedness. <a href="/nahum/1-12.htm">12</a>This is what the LORD says: “Though they are allied and numerous, yet they will be cut down and pass away. Though I have afflicted you, O Judah, I will afflict you no longer. <a href="/nahum/1-13.htm">13</a>For I will now break their yoke from your neck and tear away your shackles.” <a href="/nahum/1-14.htm">14</a>The LORD has issued a command concerning you, O Nineveh: “There will be no descendants to carry on your name. I will cut off the carved image and cast idol from the house of your gods; I will prepare your grave, for you are contemptible.” <a href="/nahum/1-15.htm">15</a>Look to the mountains— the feet of one who brings good news, who proclaims peace! Celebrate your feasts, O Judah; fulfill your vows. For the wicked will never again march through you; they will be utterly cut off.<A name="fn"></a> Footnotes: 8 a Literally of her place  </div></div> <table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="/bsb/nahum/1.htm" title="Nahum 1"></a> Nahum 2 <a href="/bsb/nahum/3.htm" title="Nahum 3"></a></div></td></tr></table></div><div class="vheading2"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">Nahum 2</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/bsb/esv/nahum/2.shtml" style="color:#552200" title="Parallel Chapters"></a></tr></table></div><div class="chap">The Overthrow of Nineveh<a href="/nahum/2-1.htm">1</a>One who scatters advances against you, O Nineveh. Guard the fortress! Watch the road! Brace yourselves!<a href="#fn">a</a> Summon all your strength! <a href="/nahum/2-2.htm">2</a>For the LORD will restore the splendor of Jacob like the splendor of Israel, though destroyers have laid them waste and ruined the branches of their vine. <a href="/nahum/2-3.htm">3</a>The shields of his mighty men are red; the valiant warriors are dressed in scarlet. The fittings of the chariots flash like fire on the day they are prepared, and the spears of cypress have been brandished.<a href="#fn">b</a> <a href="/nahum/2-4.htm">4</a>The chariots dash through the streets; they rush around the plazas, appearing like torches, darting about like lightning. <a href="/nahum/2-5.htm">5</a>He summons his nobles; they stumble as they advance. They race to its wall; the protective shield is set in place. <a href="/nahum/2-6.htm">6</a>The river gates are thrown open and the palace collapses. <a href="/nahum/2-7.htm">7</a>It is decreed that the city be exiled and carried away; her maidservants moan like doves, and beat upon their breasts. <a href="/nahum/2-8.htm">8</a>Nineveh has been like a pool of water throughout her days, but now it is draining away. “Stop! Stop!” they cry, but no one turns back. <a href="/nahum/2-9.htm">9</a>“Plunder the silver! Plunder the gold!” There is no end to the treasure, an abundance of every precious thing. <a href="/nahum/2-10.htm">10</a>She is emptied! Yes, she is desolate and laid waste! Hearts melt, knees knock, bodies tremble, and every face grows pale! <a href="/nahum/2-11.htm">11</a>Where is the lions’ lair or the feeding ground of the young lions, where the lion and lioness prowled with their cubs, with nothing to frighten them away? <a href="/nahum/2-12.htm">12</a>The lion mauled enough for its cubs and strangled prey for the lioness. It filled its dens with the kill, and its lairs with mauled prey. <a href="/nahum/2-13.htm">13</a>“Behold, I am against you,” declares the LORD of Hosts. “I will send your chariots up in smoke, and the sword will devour your young lions. I will cut off your prey from the earth, and the voices of your messengers will no longer be heard.”<A name="fn"></a> Footnotes: 1 a Hebrew Strengthen your loins!  3 b Hebrew; alternately, the spears may be of pine  or juniper  or fir ; LXX and Syriac they are prepared, and the horsemen rush to and fro.  </div></div> <table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="/bsb/nahum/2.htm" title="Nahum 2"></a> Nahum 3 <a href="/bsb/habakkuk/1.htm" title="Habakkuk 1"></a></div></td></tr></table></div><div class="vheading2"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">Nahum 3</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/bsb/esv/nahum/3.shtml" style="color:#552200" title="Parallel Chapters"></a></tr></table></div><div class="chap">Judgment on Nineveh<a href="/nahum/3-1.htm">1</a>Woe to the city of blood, full of lies, full of plunder, never without prey. <a href="/nahum/3-2.htm">2</a>The crack of the whip, the rumble of the wheel, galloping horse and bounding chariot! <a href="/nahum/3-3.htm">3</a>Charging horseman, flashing sword, shining spear; heaps of slain, mounds of corpses, dead bodies without end— they stumble over their dead— <a href="/nahum/3-4.htm">4</a>because of the many harlotries of the harlot, the seductive mistress of sorcery, who betrays nations by her prostitution and clans by her witchcraft. <a href="/nahum/3-5.htm">5</a>“Behold, I am against you,” declares the LORD of Hosts. “I will lift your skirts over your face. I will show your nakedness to the nations and your shame to the kingdoms. <a href="/nahum/3-6.htm">6</a>I will pelt you with filth and treat you with contempt; I will make a spectacle of you. <a href="/nahum/3-7.htm">7</a>Then all who see you will recoil from you and say, ‘Nineveh is devastated; who will grieve for her?’ Where can I find comforters for you?” <a href="/nahum/3-8.htm">8</a>Are you better than Thebes,<a href="#fn">a</a> stationed by the Nile with water around her, whose rampart was the sea, whose wall was the water? <a href="/nahum/3-9.htm">9</a>Cush<a href="#fn">b</a> and Egypt were her boundless strength; Put and Libya were her allies. <a href="/nahum/3-10.htm">10</a>Yet she became an exile; she went into captivity. Her infants were dashed to pieces at the head of every street. They cast lots for her dignitaries, and all her nobles were bound in chains. <a href="/nahum/3-11.htm">11</a>You too will become drunk; you will go into hiding and seek refuge from the enemy. <a href="/nahum/3-12.htm">12</a>All your fortresses are fig trees with the first ripe figs; when shaken, they fall into the mouth of the eater! <a href="/nahum/3-13.htm">13</a>Look at your troops— they are like your women! The gates of your land are wide open to your enemies; fire consumes their bars. <a href="/nahum/3-14.htm">14</a>Draw your water for the siege; strengthen your fortresses. Work the clay and tread the mortar; repair the brick kiln! <a href="/nahum/3-15.htm">15</a>There the fire will devour you; the sword will cut you down and consume you like a young locust. Make yourself many like the young locust; make yourself many like the swarming locust! <a href="/nahum/3-16.htm">16</a>You have multiplied your merchants more than the stars of the sky. The young locust strips the land and flies away. <a href="/nahum/3-17.htm">17</a>Your guards<a href="#fn">c</a> are like the swarming locust, and your scribes<a href="#fn">d</a> like clouds of locusts that settle on the walls on a cold day. When the sun rises, they fly away, and no one knows where. <a href="/nahum/3-18.htm">18</a>O king of Assyria, your shepherds slumber; your officers sleep. Your people are scattered on the mountains with no one to gather them. <a href="/nahum/3-19.htm">19</a>There is no healing for your injury; your wound is severe. 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