Nahum1
1The burden of Nineveh [abode of Ninus, or Offspring’s Habitation]. The book of the vision of Nachum [comfort] the Elkoshi [God is ensnarer].2God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] [is] jealous, and the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) revenges; the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) revenges, and [is] furious; the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) will take vengeance on his adversaries, and he reserves [wrath] for his enemies.3The LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) [is] slow to anger, and great in power, and will not at all acquit [the wicked]: the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) has his way in the whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds [are] the dust of his feet.4He rebukes the sea, and makes it dry, and dries up all the rivers: Bashan [Fruitful] languishes, and Carmel [Garden-land], and the flower of L’vanon [Whiteness] languishes.5The mountains quake at him, and the hills melt, and the earth is burned at his presence, yes, the world, and all that dwell in it.6Who 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.7The LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) [is] good, a strong hold in the day of trouble; and he knows them that trust in him.8But with an overrunning flood he will make an utter end of the place thereof, and darkness shall pursue his enemies.9What do you2f imagine against the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate)? he will make an utter end: affliction shall not rise up the second time.10For while [they be] folded together [as] thorns, and while they are drunken [as] drunkards, they shall be devoured as stubble fully dry.11There is [one] come out of youi, that imagines evil against the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), a wicked counselor.12Thus says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate); Though [they be] quiet, and likewise many, yet thus shall they be cut down, when he shall pass through. Though I have afflicted youi, I will afflict youi no more.13For now will I break his yoke from off youi, and will burst youri bonds in sunder.14And the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) has given a commandment concerning youi, [that] no more of youri name be sown: out of the house of youri gods will I cut off the graven image and the molten image: I will make youri grave; for youi are vile.15Behold upon the mountains the feet of him that brings good tidings, that proclaims peace! O Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised], keep youri solemn feasts, perform youri vows: for the wicked shall no more pass through youi; he is utterly cut off.1He that dashes in pieces is come up before youri face: keep the munitions, watch the way, make [youri] waist strong, fortify [youri] power mightily.2For the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) has turned away the excellency of Ya’akov [Heal of God], as the excellency of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God]: for the emptiers have emptied them out, and marred their vine branches.3The 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.4The chariots shall rage in the streets, they shall jostle one against another in the broad ways: they shall seem like torches, they shall run like the lightnings.5He shall recount his worthies: they shall stumble in their walk; they shall make haste to the wall thereof, and the defense shall be prepared.6The gates of the rivers shall be opened, and the palace shall be dissolved.7And It is fixed. She shall be led away captive, she shall be brought up, and her handmaids shall moan as with the voice of doves, beating upon their breasts.8But Nineveh [abode of Ninus, or Offspring’s Habitation] [is] of old like a pool of water: yet they shall flee away. Stand, stand, [shall they cry]; but none shall look back.9Take you2f the spoil (plunder; prey; booty) of silver, take the spoil (plunder; prey; booty) of gold: for [there is] none end of the store [and] glory out of all the pleasant furniture.10She is empty, and void, and waste: and the heart melts, and the knees strike together, and much pain [is] in all waist, and the faces of them all gather blackness.11Where [is] the dwelling of the lions, and the feeding place of the young lions, where the lion, [even] the old lion, walked, [and] the lion’s whelp (a cub; a young one), and none made [them] afraid?12The 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.13Behold, I [am] against youi, says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) Tz’va’ot [of the Heavenly Armies], and I will burn her chariots in the smoke, and the sword shall devour youri young lions: and I will cut off youri prey from the earth, and the voice of youri messengers shall no more be heard.1Woe to the bloody city! it [is] all full of lies [and] robbery; the prey departs not;2The noise of a whip, and the noise of the rattling of the wheels, and of the prancing horses, and of the jumping chariots.3The horseman lifts up both the bright sword and the glittering spear: and [there is] a multitude of slain, and a great number of carcasses; and [there is] none end of [their] corpses; they stumble upon their corpses:4Because of the multitude of the cult prostitution of the well-favored prostitute, the mistress of witchcrafts, that sells nations through her cult prostitution, and families through her witchcrafts.5Behold, I [am] against youi, says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) Tz’va’ot [of the Heavenly Armies]; and I will lift youri skirts over youri face, and I will show the nations youri nakedness, and the kingdoms youri shame.6And I will cast abominable filth upon youi, and make youi vile, and will set youi as a gazingstock.7And it shall come to pass, [that] all they that look upon youi shall flee from youi, and say, Nineveh [abode of Ninus, or Offspring’s Habitation] is laid waste: who will bemoan her? from what place shall I seek comforters for youi?8Are youi better than No-Amon [master workman - disrupting], that was situated among the rivers (of Egypt), [that had] the waters round about it, whose fortification (defensive structure) [was] the sea, [and] her wall [was] from the sea?9Ethiopia [Kush] and Mitzrayim [Egypt - The Narrow Place] [were] her strength, and [it was] infinite; Put [a bow] and Lubim [empty-hearted] were youri helpers.10Yet [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.11youi also shall be drunken: youi shall be hid, youi also shall seek refuge because of the enemy.12All youri 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.13Behold, youri people in the midst of youi [behave like] women: the gates of youri land shall be set wide open unto youri enemies: the fire shall devour youri bars.14Draw yourselfi waters for the siege, fortify youri strong holds: go into clay, and trample the mortar, make strong the brick factory.15There shall the fire devour youi; the sword shall cut youi off, it shall eat youi up like the cankerworm: make yourself many as the cankerworm, make yourself many as the locusts.16youi have multiplied youri merchants above the stars of heaven: the cankerworm spoils, and flies away.17Your1s guardsmen [are] as the locusts, and youri captains as the great grasshoppers, which camp in the hedges in the cold day, [but] when the sun arises they flee away, and their place is not known where they [are].18Your1s shepherds slumber, O king of Ashur [the level plain] (the land of the sons of Shem (name, renown (great reputation; being well-known))): youri nobles shall dwell [in the dust]: youri people is scattered upon the mountains, and no man gathers [them].19[There is] no healing of youri bruise; youri wound is grievous: all that hear the report of youi shall clap the hands over youi: for upon whom has not youri wickedness passed continually?
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