Nahum 1:1-6 ▼

1 The burden of Nineveh, the book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite:

2 A God jealous and avenging is YHWH; avenging is YHWH and owner of fury; avenging is YHWH on His adversaries, and He is watching for His enemies.

3 YHWH is slow to anger and great in power; and YHWH does not entirely acquit. In the whirlwind and in the storm is His way, and the clouds are the dust of His feet.

4 He rebukes the sea and makes it dry, and all the rivers He dries up; Bashan and Carmel wither; the flower of Lebanon has withered.

5 The mountains quake before Him, and the hills melt, and the earth lifts up before His face, and the world and all those dwelling in it.

6 Before the face of His indignation, who can stand? And who can stand up in the burning of His anger? His fury is poured out like the fire, and the rocks are torn down by Him.