Nam Nahum, chapter Book of Nahum, chapter 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)?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 her1:8 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,1:11 See 1:1
that imagineth evil against Hashem,
a yo'etz Beliya'al (a counselor of Beliya'al).1:11 i.e., Sennacherib
Thus saith Hashem:
Though they are strong, and likewise rabbim,
yet shall they thus be cut down, and he1:12 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;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