² Adonai is a jealous and vengeful God.
Adonai avenges; he knows how to be angry.
Adonai takes vengeance on his foes
and stores up wrath for his enemies.
³ Adonai is slow to anger, but great in power;
and he does not leave the guilty unpunished.
Adonai’s path is in the whirlwind and storm,
and the clouds are the dust of his feet.
⁴ He rebukes the sea and leaves it dry,
he dries up all the rivers.
Bashan and the Karmel languish;
the flower of the L’vanon withers.
⁵ The mountains quake before him,
and the hills dissolve;
the earth collapses in his presence,
the world and everyone living in it.
⁶ Who can withstand his fury?
Who can endure his fierce anger?
His wrath is poured out like fire,
the rocks broken to pieces before him.

⁷ Adonai is good,
a stronghold in time of trouble;
he takes care of those
who take refuge in him.
⁸ But with an overwhelming flood
he will make an end of [Ninveh’s] place,
and darkness will pursue his enemies.

⁹ What are you planning against Adonai?
He is making an end [of it];
trouble will not arise a second time.
¹⁰ For like men drunk with liquor,
they will be burned up like tangled thorns,
like straw completely dry.
¹¹ Out of you, [Ninveh,] he came,
one who plots evil against Adonai,
who counsels wickedness.

¹² Here is what Adonai says:
“Though they be many and strong,
they will be cut down, they will pass;
and though I have made you suffer,
I will make you suffer no more.
¹³ Now I will break his yoke from your necks
and snap the chains that bind you.

¹⁴ Adonai gave this order concerning you:
you will have no descendants to bear your name;
from the house of your god I will cut off
carved image and cast metal image;
I will prepare your grave,
because you are worthless.”