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📚The burden 📖 concerning Nineveh 📖. The book of the vision 📖 of Nahum the Elkoshite 📖.God’s anger against the ungodly, his compassion toward the godly
2 📚God is jealous 📖,
and the LORD avenges.
The LORD avenges, and is
furious.
The LORD will take vengeance 📖
on his adversaries,
and he reserves wrath 📖
for his enemies 📖.
3 📚The LORD is slow
to get angry 📖, and great in power,
and will not at all acquit 📖
the wicked.
The LORD has his way in the whirlwind
and in the storm,
and the clouds 📖 are the dust
of his feet.
4 📚He rebukes the sea and makes
it dry, and dries up all the rivers.
Bashan and Carmel wither,
and the flower of Lebanon withers.
1:4 Ex 14:21-22; Josh 3:14-17. Bashan, Carmel and Lebanon were very fertile places but God can turn such places into deserts if He wishes to do so.⚜
5 📚The mountains quake before him,
and the hills melt,
and the earth heaves at his presence,
yes, the world and all who live in it.
6 📚Who can stand before his indignation?
And who can endure the fierceness
of his anger?
His fury is poured out like fire 📖,
and the rocks are thrown
down by him.
7 📚The LORD is good 📖, a stronghold 📖
in the day of trouble,
and he knows 📖 those who
trust 📖 in him.
8 📚But 📖 with an overwhelming flood
he will make a complete end
of its place,
and darkness shall pursue
his enemies.
9 📚What do you plot 📖 against
the LORD?
He will make a complete end
of it.
Trouble will not rise up
a second time.
10 📚For while they are tangled up
like thorns,
and while they are drunk like drunkards,
they will be consumed like
fully dry stubble.
11 📚From you comes out a wicked counsellor
who plots evil against the LORD.
The future well-being of Judah
12 📚Thus says the LORD:
“Though they are secure,
and also numerous,
yet they will be cut down,
when he passes through.
Though I have afflicted 📖 you,
I will afflict you no more.
13 📚For now I will break off his yoke
from you,
and will break your shackles
in two”.
1:13 Assyria once exercised some control over Judah. God, by destroying Assyria, would break their “yoke” over Judah.⚜
14 📚And the LORD has given
a commandment concerning you,
that your name will no longer
be perpetuated.
“I will cut off the carved images
and cast metal idols from
the house of your gods 📖.
I will make your grave;
for you are vile 📖”.
1:9-14 God foretells the utter destruction of Nineveh. For other prophecies about Nineveh and Assyria see Isa 10:12-19; Ezek 32:22-23. Note on Assyria at 2 Kings 15:19.⚜
15 📚See on the mountains the feet
of him who brings good tidings,
who proclaims peace!
O Judah, keep your appointed feasts,
perform your vows.
For the wicked will no longer pass
through you; he is utterly cut off.