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[1]The burden of Nineve: the book of the vision of Naum the Elkesite.
[2]God is jealous, and the Lord avenges; the Lord avenges with wrath; the Lord takes vengeance on his adversaries, and he cuts off his enemies.
[3]The Lord is long-suffering, and his power is great, and the Lord will not hold any guiltless: his way is in destruction and in the whirlwind, and the clouds are the dust of his feet.
[4]He threatens the sea, and dries it up, and exhausts all the rivers: the land of Basan, and Carmel are brought low, and the flourishing trees of Libanus have come to nought.
[5]The mountains quake at him, and the hills are shaken, and the earth recoils at his presence, even the world, and all that dwell in it.
[6]Who shall stand before his anger? and who shall withstand in the anger of his wrath? his wrath brings to nought kingdoms, and the rocks are burst asunder by him.
[7]The Lord is good to them that wait on him in the day of affliction; and he knows them that reverence him.
[8]But with an overrunning flood he will make an utter end: darkness shall pursue those that rise up against him and his enemies.
[9]What do ye devise against the Lord? he will make a complete end: he will not take vengeance by affliction twice at the same time.
[10]For the enemy shall be laid bare even to the foundation, and shall be devoured as twisted yew, and as stubble fully dry.
[11]Out of thee shall proceed a device against the Lord, counselling evil things hostile to him.
[12]Thus saith the Lord who rules over many waters, Even thus shall they be sent away, and the report of thee shall not be heard any more.
[13]And now will I break his rod from off thee, and will burst thy bonds.
[14]And the Lord shall give a command concerning thee; there shall no more of thy name be scattered: I will utterly destroy the graven images out of the house of thy god, and the molten images: I will make thy grave; for they are swift.
[15]Behold upon the mountains the feet of him that brings glad tidings, and publishes peace! O Juda, keep thy feasts, pay thy vows: for they shall no more pass through thee to thy decay.
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