¹The burden of Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite.

²God is jealous

And the Lord is vengeful.

The Lord is vengeful,

And he is a person of fury.

The Lord takes vengeance on his adversaries,

And he reserves judgment on his enemies.

³The Lord is longsuffering and great in power,

And he will certainly not acquit the guilty.

The Lord's way is in a whirlwind and in a storm,

And the clouds are the fine dust of his feet.

⁴He rebukes the sea and makes it dry,

And he dries up all the rivers.

Bashan languishes, and Carmel too,

And the flower of Lebanon languishes as well.

⁵Mountains tremble before him,

And hills melt,

And the land is upheaved in his presence,

As is the world and all its inhabitants.

⁶Who can stand before his indignation,

And who can endure the fury of his anger?

His wrath is poured out like fire,

And the rocks are demolished by him.

⁷The Lord is good;

He is a stronghold on the day of adversity,

And he knows those

Who trust in him.

⁸And with a flood passing over,

He will make an end of its site;

Darkness will pursue his enemies.

⁹What do you imagine against the Lord?

He will make an end;

Adversity will not rise up a second time.

¹⁰For the end will come to the entwined thorns,

And this will happen when they are drunk from their drinking bout.

They will be consumed like chaff fully dry.

¹¹From you one will come out

Imagining evil against the Lord

– A worthless counsellor.

¹²This is what the Lord says:

“Even if they are in full number,

And ever so numerous,

Nevertheless, they will be cut down,

And the event will pass.

Although I have afflicted you,

I will not afflict you any more.

¹³And now I will break his yoke off you,

And I will undo your bonds.

¹⁴And the Lord will give commandment concerning you;

No-one of your name will be propagated any more.

I will cut off the carved image and the cast image from the house of your gods;

I will appoint your grave,

For you are despised.

¹⁵Behold on the mountains

The feet of him who brings good tidings,

Who proclaims peace.

Celebrate your feasts, Judah,

And fulfil your vows,

For the worthless one will no longer pass through you;

He will have been completely cut off.