MacWorld 1996 July/Macworld (1996-07).dmg/Shareware World/Communication/WarpSearch CGI 1.0/The_Bible/nahum.txt

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The next file is: NAHUM
1:1 The burden of Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum the
 Elkoshite,
1:2 God [is] jealous, and the LORD avengeth; the LORD avengeth,
 and [is] furious; the LORD will take vengeance on his
 adversaries, and he reserveth [wrath] for his enemies.
1:3 The LORD [is] slow to anger, and great in power, and will
 not at all acquit [the wicked]: the LORD [hath] his way in the
 whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds [are] the dust of
 his feet.
1:4 He rebuketh the sea, and maketh it dry, and drieth up all
 the rivers: Bashan languisheth, and Carmel, and the flower of
 Lebanon languisheth.
1:5 The mountains quake at him, and the hills melt, and the
 earth is burned at his presence, even the world, and all that
 dwell therein.
1:6 Who 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.
1:7 The LORD [is] good, a strong hold in the day of trouble; and
 he knoweth them that trust in him.
1:8 But with an over-running flood he will make an utter end of
 the place thereof, and darkness shall pursue his enemies.
1:9 What do ye imagine against the LORD? he will make an utter
 end: affliction shall not rise up the second time.
1:10 For while [they] are folded together [as] thorns, and while
 they are drunken [as] drunkards, they shall be devoured as
 stubble fully dry.
1:11 There is [one] come out of thee, that imagineth evil
 against the LORD, a wicked counselor.
1:12 Thus saith the LORD; Though [they are] quiet, and likewise
 many, yet thus shall they be cut down, when he shall pass
 through. Though I have afflicted thee, I will afflict thee no
 more.
1:13 For now I will break his yoke from off thee, and will burst
 thy bonds asunder.
1:14 And the LORD hath given a commandment concerning thee,
 [that] no more of thy name be sown: out of the house of thy
 gods will I cut off the graven image and the molten image: I
 will make thy grave; for thou art vile.
1:15 Behold upon the mountains the feet of him that bringeth
 good tidings, that publisheth peace! O Judah, keep thy solemn
 feasts, perform thy vows: for the wicked shall no more pass
 through thee; he is utterly cut off.
2:1 He that dasheth in pieces is come up before thy face: keep
 the munition, watch the way, make [thy] loins strong, fortify
 [thy] power mightily.
2:2 For the LORD hath turned away the excellence of Jacob, as
 the excellence of Israel: for the emptiers have emptied them
 out, and marred their vine branches.
2:3 The 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.
2:4 The 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.
2:5 He shall recount his worthies: they shall stumble in their
 walk; they shall make haste to the wall thereof, and the
 defense shall be prepared.
2:6 The gates of the rivers shall be opened, and the palace
 shall be dissolved.
2:7 And Huzzab shall be led away captive, she shall be brought
 up, and her maids shall lead [her] as with the voice of doves,
 tabering upon their breasts.
2:8 But Nineveh [is] of old like a pool of water: yet they shall
 flee away. Stand, stand, [shall they cry]; but none shall look
 back.
2:9 Take ye the spoil of silver, take the spoil of gold: for
 [there is] no end of the store [and] glory out of all the
 pleasant furniture.
2:10 She is empty, and void, and waste: and the heart melteth,
 and the knees smite together, and much pain [is] in all loins,
 and the faces of them all gather blackness.
2:11 Where [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, and none made [them] afraid?
2:12 The lion tore in pieces enough for his whelps, and
 strangled for his lionesses, and filled his holes with prey,
 and his dens with ravin.
2:13 Behold, I [am] against thee, saith the LORD of hosts, and I
 will burn her chariots in the smoke, and the sword shall devour
 thy young lions: and I will cut off thy prey from the earth,
 and the voice of thy messengers shall no more be heard.
3:1 Woe to the bloody city! it [is] all full of lies [and]
 robberies; the prey departeth not;
3:2 The noise of a whip, and the noise of the rattling of the
 wheels, and of the prancing horses, and of the bounding
 chariots.
3:3 The horseman lifteth 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] no end of [their]
 corpses; they stumble upon their corpses:
3:4 Because of the multitude of the lewd deeds of the
 well-favored harlot, the mistress of witchcrafts, that selleth
 nations through her lewd deeds, and families through her
 witchcrafts.
3:5 Behold, I [am] against thee, saith the LORD of hosts; and I
 will remove thy skirts upon thy face, and I will show the
 nations thy nakedness, and the kingdoms thy shame.
3:6 And I will cast abominable filth upon thee, and make thee
 vile, and will set thee as a gazing-stock.
3:7 And it shall come to pass, [that] all they that look upon
 thee shall flee from thee, and say, Nineveh is laid waste: who
 will bemoan her; whence shall I seek comforters for thee?
3:8 Art thou better than populous No, that was situated among
 the rivers, [that had] the waters around it, whose rampart
 [was] the sea, [and] her wall [was] from the sea?
3:9 Cush and Egypt [were] her strength, and [it was] infinite;
 Put and Lubim were thy helpers.
3:10 Yet [was] she carried away, she went into captivity: her
 young children also were dashed in pieces at the head of all
 the streets: and they cast lots for her honorable men, and all
 her great men were bound in chains.
3:11 Thou also shalt be drunken: thou shalt be hid, thou also
 shalt seek strength because of the enemy.
3:12 All thy strong holds [shall be like] fig-trees with the
 first ripe figs: if they be shaken, they shall even fall into
 the mouth of the eater.
3:13 Behold, thy people in the midst of thee [are] women: the
 gates of thy land shall be set wide open to thy enemies: the
 fire shall devour thy bars.
3:14 Draw thee waters for the siege, fortify thy strong holds:
 go into clay, and tread the mortar, make strong the brick-kiln.
3:15 There shall the fire devour thee; the sword shall cut thee
 off, it shall eat thee up like the canker-worm: make thyself
 many as the canker-worm, make thyself many as the locusts.
3:16 Thou hast multiplied thy merchants above the stars of
 heaven: the canker-worm spoileth, and flieth away.
3:17 Thy crowned [are] as the locusts, and thy captains as the
 great grasshoppers, which settle in the hedges in the cold day,
 [but] when the sun ariseth they flee away, and their place is
 not known where they [are].
3:18 Thy shepherds slumber, O king of Assyria: thy nobles shall
 dwell [in the dust]: thy people are scattered upon the
 mountains, and no man gathereth [them].
3:19 [There is] no healing of thy bruise; thy wound is grievous:
 all that hear the fame of thee shall clap the hands over thee:
 for upon whom hath not thy wickedness passed continually?