NamНау NahumНавум, chapterраздзел Book of NahumКніга прарока Навума, chapterраздзел 1

The burden concerning Nineveh. The sefer chazon (book of the vision) of Nachum of Elkosh.

A jealous G-d and taking vengeance is Hashem;

an avenger is Hashem, Ba'al Chemah (L-rd of Wrathful Fury);

Hashem will take vengeance on His adversaries,

and He reserveth wrath for His enemies.Exo 20:5; Jos 24:19

Hashem is slow to anger,

and great in ko'ach,

and will not at all leave the guilty unpunished;

Hashem hath His way in the whirlwind and in the tempest,

and the anan (clouds) are the dust of His feet.Psa 86:5; Job 5:18

Hashem rebuketh the yam, and drieth it up,

and maketh all the neharot (rivers) run dry;

Bashan languisheth, and Carmel,

and the flower of the Levanon fadeth.Isa 50:2

The mountains quake before Hashem,

and the hills melt away,

and ha'aretz heaveth at His presence,

yea, tevel (the world), and all that dwell therein.Exo 19:18; Deu 32:22; Psa 97:5

Who can stand before Hashemʼs fury?

And who can endure His charon af (burning anger)?(a)1:6 See Ro 1:18

His chemah (wrath) is poured out like eish (fire)

and the tzurim (rocks) are rent in pieces before Him.Rev 6:17; Gen 19:24; Deu 32:22

Hashem is tov,

a maoz (stronghold) in the Yom Tzarah;

and Hashem knoweth them that take refuge in Him.Psa 1:6; 2Ti 2:19

But with an overwhelming flood

He will make an utter end of her(b)1:8 Ninevehʼs site,

and Hashem shall pursue His enemies into choshech.

Whatever plot ye against Hashem,

Hashem will make an utter end of anyone doing it;

tzarah (affliction) will not arise a second time.

For while they be twisted together as sirim (thorns),

and while they are drunken as drunkards,

they shall be devoured as stubble fully dry.Isa 9:17

There is one come out of thee,(c)1:11 See 1:1

that imagineth evil against Hashem,

a yo'etz Beliya'al (a counselor of Beliya'al).(d)1:11 i.e., Sennacherib

Thus saith Hashem:

Though they are strong, and likewise rabbim,

yet shall they thus be cut down, and he(e)1:12 the Assyrian shall pass away.

Though I have afflicted thee [O Yehudah],

I will afflict thee no more.

For now will I break his motah (yoke) from off thee,

and will break thy fetters in pieces.Jer 27:2

And Hashem hath given a command concerning thee,

that no more of thy name be sown;(f)1:14 i.e., to perpetuate his name

out of the bais of thy g-ds will I cut off

the pesel (graven image) and the molten image;

I prepare thy kever (grave);

for thou art vile.2Ki 19:37