fifteen  2 jBehold, upon the mountains, kthe toes of him who brings good news, who publishes peace! lKeep your feasts, O Judah; mfulfill your vows, nfor under no circumstances once more shall the worthless pass through you; He's utterly Slice off.

9  What xdo you plot towards the Lord? yHe can make an entire end; issues will likely not stand up a 2nd time. 10  For They're zlike entangled thorns, like drunkards because they consume; athey are eaten like stubble completely dried. eleven  From you came one bwho plotted evil versus the Lord, a worthless counselor.

But 23with an overflowing flood he can make a complete end on the adversaries,[a] and 24will pursue his enemies into darkness. 9

although I have stricken you, I'll afflict you no far more. 13 And now I will crack his yoke from off you and can burst your bonds apart." fourteen The Lord has presented commandment about you: "No a lot more shall your identify be perpetuated; from the house of your gods I will Lower from the carved impression and the steel graphic. I could make your grave, in your case are vile."

13 mBehold, I am against you, declares the Lord of hosts, and nI will burn up your6 chariots in smoke, and also the sword shall devour your younger lions. I will Reduce off your prey through the earth, and othe voice within your messengers shall no longer be read.

it is going to vdevour you wlike the locust. Multiply yourselves wlike the locust; multiply wlike the grasshopper! 16  You elevated xyour merchants greater than The celebrities with the heavens. wThe locust spreads its wings and flies away.

three  The shield of his mighty Adult males is red; shis troopers are clothed in scarlet. The chariots include flashing metal to the working day he musters them; the cypress spears are brandished. four  tThe chariots race madly throughout the streets; they rush to and fro with the squares; they gleam like torches; they dart like lightning. 5  He remembers uhis officers; vthey stumble because they go, they hasten to the wall; the siege tower4 is ready up.

The Lord is slow to anger and lengthy-struggling, jealous for his own honor and for his persons, but He's wrathful and avenging versus his enemies.

Judgment for Israel’s enemies. not simply is redemption promised for God’s possess people today; judgment is confident for individuals who is not going to bow the knee and consider refuge from the Lord.

twelve  So suggests the Lord, “although They may be at full power and several, cthey will be Reduce down and pass absent. dThough I've troubled you, I will afflict you no extra. 13  And now eI will crack his yoke from off you and will burst your bonds apart.”

This book known as, while in the Vulgate Latin Variation, "the Prophecy of Nahum"; and inside the Syriac and Arabic variations, "the Prophecy in the Prophet Nahum"; As well as in Na one:1; it is named "the Book on the eyesight of Nahum"; that's extremely God singular; and from whence we understand of what place this prophet was; but of this much more will probably be said on that verse. His name signifies "consolation": and nevertheless the subject of his prophecy mainly relates to the destruction of the Assyrian empire, and of Nineveh, the Main town of it; nonetheless this was a convenience towards the individuals with the Jews, that an enemy so strong, and who was so troublesome to them, and whom they dreaded, need to sooner or later be ruined. In what age Nahum lived just isn't stated; and writers greatly disagree about this. Some make him to get essentially the most ancient of the many prophets; who suppose him to prophesy of the destruction of Nineveh, prior to the reigns of Joash king of Judah, and Jehu king of Israel, as Huetius a observes; and Other people bring him down as minimal, inserting him following Ezekiel, in the moments of Zedekiah, Clemens of Alexandria b ; neither of which is probably going. The Jewish chronologers c usually make him to are in the instances of Manasseh, and so Abarbinel; but Josephus d , with far more probability, places him from the times of Jotham; while Probably what the higher number of interpreters give into may very well be most proper; as that he lived while in the instances of Hezekiah, and was contemporary with Isaiah, Hosea, Amos, and Micah; and that this prophecy was shipped out once the 10 tribes were carried captive via the king of Assyria, which was while in the sixth year of Hezekiah, and in advance of Sennacherib's invasion of Judea, and siege of Jerusalem, which was inside the fourteenth calendar year of his reign; and which is regarded as referred to inside the "very first" chapter of this prophecy.

10He rebukes the sea and causes it to be dry; he dries up every one of the rivers; 11Bashan and 12Carmel wither; the bloom of 13Lebanon withers. 5

eight  lRejoice not around me, O mmy enemy; nwhen I fall, I shall increase; owhen I sit in darkness, the Lord will likely be a light-weight to me. 9  pI will bear the indignation in the Lord since I have sinned towards him, right until qhe pleads my induce and executes judgment for me.

eighteen  Your shepherds bare asleep, O king of Assyria; cyour nobles slumber. Your individuals dare scattered over the mountains with none to collect them.