Nahum 1

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¹The pronouncement of Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite: ✦ ²¶A jealous and avenging God is the Lord; The Lord is avenging and wrathful. The Lord takes vengeance on His adversaries, And He reserves wrath for His enemies. ✦ ³The Lord is slow to anger and great in power, And the Lord will by no means leave the guilty unpunished. In the gale and the storm is His way, And clouds are the dust beneath His feet. ✦ ⁴He rebukes the sea and dries it up; He dries up all the rivers. Bashan and Carmel wither, The blossoms of Lebanon wither. ✦ ⁵Mountains quake because of Him, And the hills come apart; Indeed the earth is upheaved by His presence, The world and all the inhabitants in it. ✦ ⁶Who can stand before His indignation? Who can endure the burning of His anger? His wrath gushes forth like fire, And the rocks are broken up by Him. ✦ ⁷The Lord is good, A stronghold in the day of trouble, And He knows those who take refuge in Him. ✦ ⁸But with an overflowing flood He will make a complete end of its site, And will pursue His enemies into darkness. ✦ ⁹¶Whatever you devise against the Lord, He will make a complete end of it. Distress will not rise up twice. ✦ ¹⁰Like tangled thorns, And like those who are drunken with their drink, They are consumed Like stubble completely dried up. ✦ ¹¹From you has gone out One who plotted evil against the Lord, A wicked counselor. ✦ ¹²This is what the Lord says: “Though they are at full strength and so they are many, So also they will be cut off and pass away. Though I have afflicted you, I will afflict you no longer. ✦ ¹³“So now, I will break his yoke from upon you, And I will tear your shackles to pieces.” ✦ ¹⁴¶The Lord has issued a command concerning you: “Your name will no longer be perpetuated. I will eliminate the carved image and the cast metal image From the house of your gods. I will prepare your grave, For you are contemptible.” ✦ ¹⁵¶Behold, on the mountains, the feet of him who brings good news, Who announces peace! Celebrate your feasts, Judah, Pay your vows. For never again will the wicked one pass through you; He is eliminated completely. ✦

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Where this chapter connects

Nah 1 ·7 2 Chr 32 ·5 Isa 10 ·5 Dan 11 ·5 Isa 8 ·4 Ps 107 ·4 Ps 114 ·4 2 Kgs 19 ·4

Christ at the center

The certain judgment on Nineveh and the comfort that 'the LORD is good, a stronghold in the day of trouble' point to Christ, who is both the refuge of his people and the judge of their enemies.

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