1. The burden of Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite.
2. The LORD is a jealous God and avengeth; the LORD avengeth and is full of wrath; the LORD taketh vengeance on his adversaries, and he reserveth wrath for his enemies.
3. The LORD is slow to anger, and great in power, and will by no means clear the guilty: the LORD hath his way in the whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet.
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.
5. The mountains quake at him, and the hills melt; and the earth is upheaved at his presence, yea, the world, and all that dwell therein.
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 broken asunder by him.
7. The LORD is good, a strong hold in the day of trouble; and he knoweth them that put their trust in him.
8. But with an overrunning flood he will make a full end of the place thereof, and will pursue his enemies into darkness.
9. What do ye imagine against the LORD? he will make a full end: affliction shall not rise up the second time.
10. For though they be like tangled thorns, told be drenched as it were in their drink, they shall be devoured utterly as dry stubble.