GetPassageurn:cts:pbc:bible.parallel.eng.darby:34urn:cts:pbc:bible.parallel.eng.darby:34The burden of Nineveh . The book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite . A jealous and avenging God is Jehovah : an avenger is Jehovah , and full of fury : Jehovah taketh vengeance on his adversaries , and he reserveth [ wrath ] for his enemies . Jehovah is slow to anger , and great in power , and doth not at all clear [ the guilty ] : Jehovah , -- his way is in the whirlwind and in the storm , and the clouds are the dust of his feet . He rebuketh the sea , and maketh it dry , and drieth up all the rivers : Bashan languisheth , and Carmel , and the flower of Lebanon languisheth . The mountains quake before him , and the hills melt , and the earth is upheaved at his presence , and the world , and all that dwell therein . Who shall stand before his indignation ? and who shall abide in the fierceness of his anger ? His fury is poured out like fire , and the rocks are broken asunder by him . Jehovah is good , a stronghold in the day of trouble ; and he knoweth them that trust in him . But with an overrunning flood he will make a full end of the place thereof , and darkness shall pursue his enemies . What do ye imagine against Jehovah ? He will make a full end : trouble shall not rise up the second time . Though they be tangled together [ as ] thorns , and be as drenched from their drink , they shall be devoured as dry stubble , completely . Out of thee is gone forth one that imagineth evil against Jehovah , a wicked counsellor . Thus saith Jehovah : Though they be complete in number , and many as they be , even so shall they be cut down , and he shall pass away ; and though I have afflicted thee , I will afflict thee no more . And now will I break his yoke from off thee , and will burst thy bonds asunder . And Jehovah hath given commandment concerning thee , that no more of thy name be sown : out of the house of thy god will I cut off the graven image , and the molten image : I will prepare thy grave ; for thou art vile . Behold upon the mountains the feet of him that bringeth glad tidings , that publisheth peace ! Celebrate thy feasts , Judah , perform thy vows : for the wicked one shall no more pass through thee ; he is utterly cut off . He that dasheth in pieces is come up against thy face : keep the fortress , watch the way , make [ thy ] loins strong , fortify [ thy ] power mightily . For Jehovah hath brought again the glory of Jacob , as the glory of Israel ; for the wasters have wasted them , and marred their vine-branches . The shield of his mighty men is made red , the valiant men are in scarlet : the chariots [ glitter ] with the sheen of steel , in the day of his preparation , and the spears are brandished . The chariots rush madly in the streets , they justle one against another in the broad ways : the appearance of them is like torches , they run like lightnings . He bethinketh him of his nobles : they stumble in their march ; they make haste to the wall thereof , and the shelter is prepared . The gates of the rivers are opened , and the palace melteth away . And it is decreed : she shall be uncovered , she shall be led away , and her maids shall moan as with the voice of doves , drumming upon their breasts . Nineveh hath been like a pool of water , since the day she existed , yet they flee away . . . . Stand ! Stand ! But none looketh back . Plunder the silver , plunder the gold ; for there is no end of the splendid store of all precious vessels . She is empty , and void , and waste ; and the heart melteth , and the knees smite together , and writhing pain is in all loins , and all their faces grow pale . Where is [ now ] the den of the lions , and the feeding-place of the young lions , where the lion , the lioness , [ and ] the lion's whelp walked , and none made them afraid ? The lion tore in pieces enough for his whelps , and strangled for his lionesses , and filled his holes with prey , and his dens with ravin . Behold , I am against thee , saith Jehovah of hosts : and I will burn her chariots into 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 . Woe to the bloody city ! It is all full of lies [ and ] violence ; the prey departeth not . The crack of the whip , and the noise of the rattling of the wheels , and of the prancing horses , and of the bounding chariots ! The horseman springing up , and the glitter of the sword , and the flash of the spear , and a multitude of slain , and a mass of carcases , and no end of corpses : they stumble over their corpses . -- Because of the multitude of the fornications of the well-favoured harlot , mistress of sorceries , that selleth nations through her fornications , and families through her sorceries , behold , I am against thee , saith Jehovah of hosts ; and I will uncover thy skirts upon thy face , and I will shew the nations thy nakedness , and the kingdoms thy shame . And I will cast abominable filth upon thee , and make thee vile , and will set thee as a gazing stock . And it shall come to pass , [ that ] all they that see thee shall flee from thee , and shall say , Nineveh is laid waste ! Who will bemoan her ? whence shall I seek comforters for thee ? Art thou better than No-Amon , that was situate among the rivers , [ that had ] the waters round about her , whose rampart was the sea , [ and ] of the sea was her wall ? Ethiopia was her strength , and Egypt , and it was infinite ; Phut and the Libyans were her helpers . She too was carried away , she went into captivity : her infants 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 with chains . Thou also shalt be drunken : thou shalt be hid ; thou also shalt seek a refuge from the enemy . All thy strongholds are [ like ] fig-trees with the first-ripe figs : if they be shaken , they even fall into the mouth of the eater . Behold , thy people in the midst of thee are [ as ] women : the gates of thy land are set wide open unto thine enemies ; the fire devoureth thy bars . Draw thee water for the siege , strengthen thy fortresses ; go into the clay , and tread the mortar , make strong the brick-kiln . There shall the fire devour thee ; the sword shall cut thee off ; it shall devour thee like the cankerworm . Make thyself many as the cankerworm , make thyself many as the locust . Thou hast multiplied thy merchants more than the stars of the heavens ; the cankerworm spreadeth himself out and flieth away . Thy chosen men are as the locusts , and thy captains as swarms of grasshoppers , which camp in the hedges in the cold day : when the sun ariseth they flee away , and their place is not known where they are . Thy shepherds slumber , O king of Assyria ; thy nobles lie still ; thy people are scattered upon the mountains , and no man gathereth them . There is no healing of thy breach ; thy wound is grievous ; all that hear the report of thee clap the hands over thee ; for upon whom hath not thy wickedness passed continually ?