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The burden concerning Nineveh. The sefer of the vision of Nachum the Elqoshite.
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Yahuah is a jealous El and an avenger. Yahuah avenges and is master of wrath. Yahuah takes vengeance upon His adversaries, and He keeps wrath for His enemies.
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Yahuah is slow to anger and great in power, and clearing, He will not clear the guilty. Yahuah has His way in the whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of His feet.
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He rebukes the sea and makes it dry, and He dries up all the rivers. Bashan and Karmel languish, and the blossom of Levanon withers.
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The mountains quake before Him, and the hills melt. And the earth is lifted up before His face, the world and all who dwell in it.
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Before His indignation who can stand? And who can rise against the fierceness of His anger? His wrath is poured out like fire, and the rocks are broken apart before Him.
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Yahuah is good, a stronghold in the day of distress. And He knows those who take refuge in Him.
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But with an overflowing flood He will make a complete end of her place, and darkness shall pursue His enemies.
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What do you devise against Yahuah? He will make a complete end. Distress shall not rise a second time.
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For though they are tangled like thorns and drunken with their drink, they shall be consumed like dry stubble, fully dried.
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From you came forth one who devises evil against Yahuah, a counselor of worthlessness.
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Thus says Yahuah: “Though they are complete in strength and many, even so they shall be cut down, and he shall pass away. Though I have afflicted you, I will afflict you no more.
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And now I will break his yoke from upon you, and your bonds I will tear apart.”
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And Yahuah has commanded concerning you: “No more shall your name be sown. From the house of your elohim I will cut off carved image and molten image. I will make your grave, for you are vile.”
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See, upon the mountains the feet of one bringing good news, proclaiming shalom. Celebrate your feasts, Yehudah. Fulfill your vows. For the worthless one shall no longer pass through you. He is completely cut off.