| Christian Standard Bible | King James Bible |
| 1The pronouncement concerning Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite. | 1The burden of Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite. |
| 2The LORD is a jealous and avenging God; the LORD takes vengeance and is fierce in wrath. The LORD takes vengeance against his foes; he is furious with his enemies. | 2God is jealous, and the LORD revengeth; the LORD revengeth, and is furious; the LORD will take vengeance on his adversaries, and he reserveth wrath for his enemies. |
| 3The LORD is slow to anger but great in power; the LORD will never leave the guilty unpunished. His path is in the whirlwind and storm, and clouds are the dust beneath his feet. | 3The LORD is slow to anger, and great in power, and will not at all acquit the wicked: the LORD hath his way in the whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet. |
| 4He rebukes the sea and dries it up, and he makes all the rivers run dry. Bashan and Carmel wither; even the flower of Lebanon withers. | 4He rebuketh the sea, and maketh it dry, and drieth up all the rivers: Bashan languisheth, and Carmel, and the flower of Lebanon languisheth. |
| 5The mountains quake before him, and the hills melt; the earth trembles at his presence--the world and all who live in it. | 5The mountains quake at him, and the hills melt, and the earth is burned at his presence, yea, the world, and all that dwell therein. |
| 6Who can withstand his indignation? Who can endure his burning anger? His wrath is poured out like fire; even rocks are shattered before him. | 6Who 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 thrown down by him. |
| 7The LORD is good, a stronghold in a day of distress; he cares for those who take refuge in him. | 7The LORD is good, a strong hold in the day of trouble; and he knoweth them that trust in him. |
| 8But he will completely destroy Nineveh with an overwhelming flood, and he will chase his enemies into darkness. | 8But with an overrunning flood he will make an utter end of the place thereof, and darkness shall pursue his enemies. |
| 9Whatever you plot against the LORD, he will bring it to complete destruction; oppression will not rise up a second time. | 9What do ye imagine against the LORD? he will make an utter end: affliction shall not rise up the second time. |
| 10For they will be consumed like entangled thorns, like the drink of a drunkard and like straw that is fully dry. | 10For while they be folden together as thorns, and while they are drunken as drunkards, they shall be devoured as stubble fully dry. |
| 11One has gone out from you, who plots evil against the LORD, and is a wicked counselor. | 11There is one come out of thee, that imagineth evil against the LORD, a wicked counseller. |
| 12This is what the LORD says: Though they are strong and numerous, they will still be mowed down, and he will pass away. Though I have punished you, I will punish you no longer. | 12Thus saith the LORD; Though they be quiet, and likewise many, yet thus shall they be cut down, when he shall pass through. Though I have afflicted thee, I will afflict thee no more. |
| 13For I will now break off his yoke from you and tear off your shackles. | 13For now will I break his yoke from off thee, and will burst thy bonds in sunder. |
| 14The LORD has issued an order concerning you: There will be no offspring to carry on your name. I will eliminate the carved idol and cast image from the house of your gods; I will prepare your grave, for you are contemptible. | 14And the LORD hath given a commandment concerning thee, that no more of thy name be sown: out of the house of thy gods will I cut off the graven image and the molten image: I will make thy grave; for thou art vile. |
| 15Look to the mountains--the feet of the herald, who proclaims peace. Celebrate your festivals, Judah; fulfill your vows. For the wicked one will never again march through you; he will be entirely wiped out. | 15Behold upon the mountains the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace! O Judah, keep thy solemn feasts, perform thy vows: for the wicked shall no more pass through thee; he is utterly cut off. |
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