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world. Lord Jesus, I need you. I have done wrong. Please forgive me of my sins
and come into my life. I ask you not just to be part of my life, but to guide me
to live according to the words I read in the Bible. Thank you for your mercy and
forgiveness. I am now committed to be your follower.
Amen.
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The Book of Nahum
Chapter 1
001:001 The burden of Nineveh. The book of the
vision of Nahum the
Elkoshite.
001:002 God is jealous, and the LORD revengeth; the LORD
revengeth,
and is furious; the
LORD will take vengeance on his
adversaries, and he reserveth wrath for his enemies.
001:003 The LORD is slow to anger, and great in power,
and will not at
all acquit the
wicked: the LORD hath his way in the
whirlwind
and in the storm, and
the clouds are the dust of his feet.
001:004 He rebuketh the sea, and maketh it dry, and
drieth up all the
rivers: Bashan
languisheth, and Carmel, and the flower
of
Lebanon languisheth.
001:005 The mountains quake at him, and the hills melt,
and the earth
is burned at his
presence, yea, the world, and all that
dwell
therein.
001:006 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.
001:007 The LORD is good, a strong hold in the day of
trouble; and he
knoweth them that
trust in him.
001:008 But with an overrunning flood he will make an
utter end of the
place thereof,
and darkness shall pursue his enemies.
001:009 What do ye imagine against the LORD? he will
make an utter
end: affliction
shall not rise up the second time.
001:010 For while they be folden together as thorns, and
while they
are drunken as
drunkards, they shall be devoured as
stubble
fully dry.
001:011 There is one come out of thee, that imagineth
evil against the
LORD, a wicked
counsellor.
001:012 Thus saith the LORD; Though they be quiet, and
likewise many,
yet thus shall they
be cut down, when he shall pass
through.
Though I have afflicted
thee, I will afflict thee no more.
001:013 For now will I break his yoke from off thee, and
will burst
thy bonds in
sunder.
001:014 And the LORD hath given a commandment concerning
thee, that no
more of thy name be
sown: out of the house of thy gods will
I
cut off the graven image and the
molten image: I will make thy
grave; for thou art vile.
001:015 Behold upon the mountains the feet of him that
bringeth good
tidings, that
publisheth peace! O Judah, keep thy
solemn
feasts, perform thy vows:
for the wicked shall no more pass
through thee; he is utterly cut off.
002:001 He that dasheth in pieces is come up before thy
face: keep the
munition, watch the
way, make thy loins strong, fortify
thy
power mightily.
002:002 For the LORD hath turned away the excellency of
Jacob, as the
excellency of
Israel: for the emptiers have emptied them
out,
and marred their vine
branches.
002:003 The shield of his mighty men is made red, the
valiant men are
in scarlet: the
chariots shall be with flaming torches in
the
day of his preparation, and
the fir trees shall be terribly
shaken.
002:004 The chariots shall rage in the streets, they
shall justle one
against another
in the broad ways: they shall seem
like
torches, they shall run like
the lightnings.
002:005 He shall recount his worthies: they shall
stumble in their
walk; they shall
make haste to the wall thereof, and
the
defence shall be prepared.
002:006 The gates of the rivers shall be opened, and the
palace shall
be dissolved.
002:007 And Huzzab shall be led away captive, she shall
be brought up,
and her maids shall
lead her as with the voice of
doves,
tabering upon their
breasts.
002:008 But Nineveh is of old like a pool of water: yet
they shall
flee away. Stand,
stand, shall they cry; but none shall
look
back.
002:009 Take ye the spoil of silver, take the spoil of
gold: for there
is none end of the
store and glory out of all the
pleasant
furniture.
002:010 She is empty, and void, and waste: and the heart
melteth, and
the knees smite
together, and much pain is in all loins,
and
the faces of them all gather
blackness.
002:011 Where is the dwelling of the lions, and the
feedingplace of
the young lions,
where the lion, even the old lion,
walked,
and the lion's whelp, and
none made them afraid?
002:012 The lion did tear in pieces enough for his
whelps, and
strangled for his
lionesses, and filled his holes with
prey,
and his dens with ravin.
002:013 Behold, I am against thee, saith the LORD of
hosts, and I will
burn her
chariots in the 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.
003:001 Woe to the bloody city! it is all full of lies
and robbery;
the prey departeth
not;
003:002 The noise of a whip, and the noise of the
rattling of the
wheels, and of the
pransing horses, and of the
jumping
chariots.
003:003 The horseman lifteth up both the bright sword
and the
glittering spear: and
there is a multitude of slain, and
a
great number of carcases; and
there is none end of their
corpses; they stumble upon their corpses:
003:004 Because of the multitude of the whoredoms of the
wellfavoured
harlot, the mistress
of witchcrafts, that selleth
nations
through her whoredoms, and
families through her witchcrafts.
003:005 Behold, I am against thee, saith the LORD of
hosts; and I will
discover thy
skirts upon thy face, and I will shew the
nations
thy nakedness, and the
kingdoms thy shame.
003:006 And I will cast abominable filth upon thee, and
make thee
vile, and will set thee
as a gazingstock.
003:007 And it shall come to pass, that all they that
look upon thee
shall flee from
thee, and say, Nineveh is laid waste: who
will
bemoan her? whence shall I
seek comforters for thee?
003:008 Art thou better than populous No, that was
situate among the
rivers, that had
the waters round about it, whose rampart
was
the sea, and her wall was from
the sea?
003:009 Ethiopia and Egypt were her strength, and it was
infinite; Put
and Lubim were thy
helpers.
003:010 Yet was she carried away, she went into
captivity: her young
children 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 in chains.
003:011 Thou also shalt be drunken: thou shalt be hid,
thou also shalt
seek strength
because of the enemy.
003:012 All thy strong holds shall be like fig trees
with the
firstripe figs: if they
be shaken, they shall even fall
into
the mouth of the eater.
003:013 Behold, thy people in the midst of thee are
women: the gates
of thy land shall
be set wide open unto thine enemies:
the
fire shall devour thy
bars.
003:014 Draw thee waters for the siege, fortify thy
strong holds: go
into clay, and
tread the morter, make strong the brickkiln.
003:015 There shall the fire devour thee; the sword
shall cut thee
off, it shall eat
thee up like the cankerworm: make
thyself
many as the cankerworm,
make thyself many as the locusts.
003:016 Thou hast multiplied thy merchants above the
stars of heaven:
the cankerworm
spoileth, and fleeth away.
003:017 Thy crowned are as the locusts, and thy captains
as the great
grasshoppers, which
camp in the hedges in the cold day,
but
when the sun ariseth they flee
away, and their place is not
known
where they are.
003:018 Thy shepherds slumber, O king of Assyria: thy
nobles shall
dwell in the dust:
thy people is scattered upon the
mountains,
and no man gathereth
them.
003:019 There is no healing of thy bruise; thy wound is
grievous: all
that hear the bruit
of thee shall clap the hands over
thee:
for upon whom hath not thy
wickedness passed continually?