Nahum 1

1 A revelation about Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite.

oracle Nineveh scroll: book vision Nahum [the] Elkoshite

2 Yahweh is a jealous God and avenges. Yahweh avenges and is full of wrath. Yahweh takes vengeance on his adversaries, and he maintains wrath against his enemies.

God jealous and to avenge LORD to avenge LORD and master: [master of] rage to avenge LORD to/for enemy his and to keep he/she/it to/for enemy his

3 Yahweh is slow to anger, and great in power, and will by no means leave the guilty unpunished. Yahweh has his way in the whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet.

LORD slow face: anger (and great: large *Qk) strength and to clear not to clear LORD in/on/with whirlwind and in/on/with storm way: journey his and cloud dust foot his

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

to rebuke in/on/with sea and to wither him and all [the] river to dry to weaken Bashan and Carmel and flower Lebanon to weaken

5 The mountains quake before him, and the hills melt away. The earth trembles at his presence, yes, the world, and all who dwell in it.

mountain: mount to shake from him and [the] hill to melt and to lift: raise [the] land: country/planet from face: before his and world and all to dwell in/on/with her

6 Who can stand before his indignation? Who can endure the fierceness of his anger? His wrath is poured out like fire, and the rocks are broken apart by him.

to/for face: before indignation his who? to stand: stand and who? to arise: rise in/on/with burning anger face: anger his rage his to pour like/as fire and [the] rock to tear from him

7 Yahweh is good, a stronghold in the day of trouble; and he knows those who take refuge in him.

pleasant LORD to/for security in/on/with day distress and to know to seek refuge in/on/with him

8 But with an overflowing flood, he will make a full end of her place, and will pursue his enemies into darkness.

and in/on/with flood to pass consumption to make place her and enemy his to pursue darkness

9 What do you plot against Yahweh? He will make a full end. Affliction won’t rise up the second time.

what? to devise: devise [emph?] to(wards) LORD consumption he/she/it to make not to arise: rise beat distress

10 For entangled like thorns, and drunken as with their drink, they are consumed utterly like dry stubble.

for till thorn to interweave and like/as liquor their to imbibe to eat like/as stubble dry full

11 One has gone out of you who devises evil against Yahweh, who counsels wickedness.

from you to come out: come to devise: devise upon LORD distress: evil to advise Belial: worthless

12 Yahweh says: “Though they are in full strength and likewise many, even so they will be cut down and pass away. Though I have afflicted you, I will afflict you no more.

thus to say LORD if complete and so many and so to shear and to pass and to afflict you not to afflict you still

13 Now I will break his yoke from off you, and will burst your bonds apart.”

and now to break yoke his from upon you and bond your to tear

14 Yahweh has commanded concerning you: “No more descendants will bear your name. Out of the house of your gods, I will cut off the engraved image and the molten image. I will make your grave, for you are vile.”

and to command upon you LORD not to sow from name your still from house: temple God your to cut: eliminate idol and liquid to set: make grave your for to lighten

15 Behold, on the mountains the feet of him who brings good news, who publishes peace! Keep your feasts, Judah! Perform your vows, for the wicked one will no more pass through you. He is utterly cut off.

behold upon [the] mountain: mount foot to bear tidings to hear: proclaim peace to celebrate Judah feast your to complete vow your for not to add: again still (to/for to pass *Qk) in/on/with you Belial: worthless all his to cut: eliminate