Nahum 1 – Studienbibel

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

2 A jealous and avenging ∙God is Jehovah: an avenger is Jehovah, and full of fury: Jehovah takes vengeance on his adversaries, and he reserves wrath for his enemies.

3 Jehovah is slow to anger, and great in power, and does not at all clear the guilty: Jehovah,—his way is in the whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet.

4 He rebukes the sea, and makes it dry, and dries up all the rivers: Bashan languishes, and Carmel, and the flower of Lebanon languishes.

5 The mountains quake before him, and the hills melt, and the earth is upheaved at his presence, and the world, and all that live in it.

6 Who shall stand before his indignation? and who shall abide in the fierceness of his anger? His fury is poured out like fire, and the rocks are broken apart by him.

7 Jehovah is good, a stronghold in the day of trouble; and he knows them that trust in him.

8 But with an overrunning flood he will make a full end of the place of it, and darkness will pursue his enemies.

9 What do you imagine against Jehovah? He will make a full end: trouble will not rise up the second time.

10 Though they be tangled together as thorns, and be as drenched from their drink, they will be devoured as dry stubble, completely.

11 Out of ŷou is gone forth one that imagines evil against Jehovah, a wicked counselor

12 Thus says Jehovah: Though they be complete in number, and many as they be, even so will they be cut down, and he will pass away; and though I have afflicted ŷou, I will afflict ŷou no more.

13 And now will I break his yoke from off ŷou, and will burst ŷour bonds apart.

14 And Jehovah has given commandment concerning ŷou, that no more of ŷour name be sown: out of the house of ŷour god will I cut off the graven image, and the molten image: I will prepare ŷour grave; for ŷou are vile.

15 Behold upon the mountains the feet of him that brings glad tidings, that publishes peace! Celebrate ŷour feasts, Judah, perform ŷour vows: for the wicked one will no more pass through ŷou; he is utterly cut off.