Nahum

Of the destruction of the Assyrians, and of the deliverance of Israel.

The [a]burden of Nineveh. [b]The book of the vision of Nahum the [c]Elkoshite.

God is [d]jealous, and the Lord revengeth: the Lord revengeth: even the Lord [e]of anger, the Lord will take vengeance on his adversaries, and he reserveth wrath for his enemies.

The [f]Lord is slow to anger, but he is great in power, and will not surely clear the wicked: the Lord hath his way in the whirlwind, and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet.

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Footnotes

  1. Nahum 1:1 Read Isa. 13:1.
  2. Nahum 1:1 The vision or revelation, which God commanded Nahum to write concerning the Ninevites.
  3. Nahum 1:1 That is, born in a poor village in the tribe of Simeon.
  4. Nahum 1:2 Meaning, of his glory.
  5. Nahum 1:2 With his he is but angry for a time, but his anger never assuageth toward the reprobate, though for a time he defer it.
  6. Nahum 1:3 Thus the wicked would make God’s mercy an occasion to sin, but the Prophet willeth them to consider his force and justice.

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