¹ The burden of Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite. ² God is jealous, and the LORD revenges; the LORD revenges, and is furious ; the LORD will take vengeance on his adversaries, and he reserves wrath for his enemies. ³ The LORD is slow to anger, 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 languishes, and Carmel, and the flower of Lebanon languishes. ⁵ The mountains quake at him, and the hills melt, and the earth is burned at his presence, yes, the world, and all that dwell in it. ⁶ Who can stand before his indignation? and who can abide in 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 strong hold in the day of trouble; and he know them that trust in him. ⁸ But with an overrunning flood he will make an utter end of the place of it, and darkness will pursue his enemies. ⁹ What do you imagine against the LORD? he will make an utter end: affliction will not rise up the second time. ¹⁰ For while they be folden together as thorns, and while they are drunken as drunkards, they will be devoured as stubble fully dry. ¹¹ There is one come out of you, that imagines evil against the LORD, a wicked counsellor. ¹² So says the LORD; even though they be quiet, and likewise many, yet so will they be cut down, when he will pass through. even though I have afflicted you, I will afflict you no more. ¹³ For now will I break his yoke from off you, and will burst your chains in sunder. ¹⁴ And the LORD has given a commandment concerning you, that no more of your name be sown: out of the house of your gods will I cut off the graven image and the molten image: I will make your grave; for you are vile. ¹⁵ See on the mountains the feet of him that brings good tidings, that publishes peace! O Judah, keep your solemn feasts, perform your vows: for the wicked will no more pass through you; he is utterly cut off.