Berean Standard Bible
- 1 This is the burden against Nineveh, the book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite:
- 2 Yahweh is a jealous and avenging God; Yahweh is avenging and full of wrath. Yahweh takes vengeance on His foes and reserves wrath for His enemies.
- 3 Yahweh is slow to anger and great in power; Yahweh will by no means leave the guilty unpunished. His path is in the whirlwind and storm, and clouds are the dust beneath His feet.
- 4 He rebukes the sea and dries it up; He makes all the rivers run dry. Bashan and Carmel wither, and the flower of Lebanon wilts.
- 5 The mountains quake before Him, and the hills melt away; the earth trembles at His presence-the world and all its dwellers.
- 6 Who can withstand His indignation? Who can endure His burning anger? His wrath is poured out like fire; even rocks are shattered before Him.
- 7 Yahweh is good, a stronghold in the day of distress; He cares for those who trust in Him.
- 8 But with an overwhelming flood He will make an end of Nineveh and pursue His enemies into darkness.
- 9 Whatever you plot against Yahweh, He will bring to an end. Affliction will not rise up a second time.
- 10 For they will be entangled as with thorns and consumed like the drink of a drunkard-like stubble that is fully dry.
- 11 From you, O Nineveh, comes forth a plotter of evil against Yahweh, a counselor of wickedness.
- 12 This is what Yahweh says: "Though they are allied and numerous, yet they will be cut down and pass away. Though I have afflicted you, O Judah, I will afflict you no longer.
- 13 For I will now break their yoke from your neck and tear away your shackles."
- 14 Yahweh has issued a command concerning you, O Nineveh: "There will be no descendants to carry on your name. I will cut off the carved image and cast idol from the house of your gods; I will prepare your grave, for you are contemptible."
- 15 Look to the mountains-the feet of one who brings good news, who proclaims peace! Celebrate your feasts, O Judah; fulfill your vows. For the wicked will never again march through you; they will be utterly cut off.
