The Book of Nahum - Chapter One

 

The Book of NAHUM

(Overview by The Bible Project)

Chapter One1

 

1 A prophecy concerning Nineveh. 

The book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite.

2 

The Lord is a jealous and avenging God;
    the Lord takes vengeance and is filled with wrath.
The Lord takes vengeance on his foes
    and vents his wrath against his enemies.

3 

The Lord is slow to anger but great in power;
    the Lord will not leave the guilty unpunished.
His way is in the whirlwind and the storm,
    and clouds are the dust of his feet.

4 

He rebukes the sea and dries it up;
    he makes all the rivers run dry.
Bashan and Carmel wither
    and the blossoms of Lebanon fade.

5 

The mountains quake before him
    and the hills melt away.
The earth trembles at his presence,
    the world and all who live in it.

6 

Who can withstand his indignation?
    Who can endure his fierce anger?
His wrath is poured out like fire;
    the rocks are shattered before him.

7 

The Lord is good,
    a refuge in times of trouble.
He cares for those who trust in him,

8 

    but with an overwhelming flood
he will make an end of Nineveh;
    he will pursue his foes into the realm of darkness.

9 

Whatever they plot against the Lord
    he will bring to an end;
    trouble will not come a second time.

10 

They will be entangled among thorns
    and drunk from their wine;
    they will be consumed like dry stubble.

11 

From you, Nineveh, has one come forth
    who plots evil against the Lord
    and devises wicked plans.

12 This is what the Lord says:

‘Although they have allies and are numerous,
    they will be destroyed and pass away.
Although I have afflicted you, Judah,
    I will afflict you no more.

13 

Now I will break their yoke from your neck
    and tear your shackles away.’

14 

The Lord has given a command concerning you, Nineveh:
    ‘You will have no descendants to bear your name.
I will destroy the images and idols
    that are in the temple of your gods.
I will prepare your grave,
    for you are vile.’

15 

Look, there on the mountains,
    the feet of one who brings good news,
    who proclaims peace!
Celebrate your festivals, Judah,
    and fulfil your vows.
No more will the wicked invade you;
    they will be completely destroyed.

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READINGS 

The Book of NAHUM

Chapter One

Read by David Suchet

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OVERVIEW

The Book of NAHUM

(Overview by The Bible Project)

https://youtu.be/Y30DanA5EhU

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STUDY - LINKS

 The Book of NAHUM

(David Pawson) 

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The Book of AMOS - Chapter Nine

 

1 I saw the Lord standing by the altar, and he said:

‘Strike the tops of the pillars
    so that the thresholds shake.
Bring them down on the heads of all the people;
    those who are left I will kill with the sword.
Not one will get away,
    none will escape.

2 

Though they dig down to the depths below,
    from there my hand will take them.
Though they climb up to the heavens above,
    from there I will bring them down.

3 

Though they hide themselves on the top of Carmel,
    there I will hunt them down and seize them.
Though they hide from my eyes at the bottom of the sea,
    there I will command the serpent to bite them.

4 

Though they are driven into exile by their enemies,
    there I will command the sword to slay them.

‘I will keep my eye on them
    for harm and not for good.’

5 

The Lord, the Lord Almighty –
he touches the earth and it melts,
    and all who live in it mourn;
the whole land rises like the Nile,
    then sinks like the river of Egypt;

6 

he builds his lofty palace in the heavens
    and sets its foundation on the earth;
he calls for the waters of the sea
    and pours them out over the face of the land –
    the Lord is his name.

7 

‘Are not you Israelites
    the same to me as the Cushites?’
declares the Lord.
‘Did I not bring Israel up from Egypt,
    the Philistines from Caphtor
    and the Arameans from Kir?

8 

‘Surely the eyes of the Sovereign Lord
    are on the sinful kingdom.
I will destroy it
    from the face of the earth.
Yet I will not totally destroy
    the descendants of Jacob,’
declares the Lord.

9 

‘For I will give the command,
    and I will shake the people of Israel
    among all the nations
as grain is shaken in a sieve,
    and not a pebble will reach the ground.

10 

All the sinners among my people
    will die by the sword,
all those who say,
    “Disaster will not overtake or meet us.”

11 ‘In that day

‘I will restore David’s fallen shelter –
    I will repair its broken walls
    and restore its ruins –
    and will rebuild it as it used to be,

12 

so that they may possess the remnant of Edom
    and all the nations that bear my name,’
declares the Lord, who will do these things.

13 ‘The days are coming,’ declares the Lord,

‘when the reaper will be overtaken by the ploughman
    and the planter by the one treading grapes.
New wine will drip from the mountains
    and flow from all the hills,

14 

    and I will bring my people Israel back from exile.

‘They will rebuild the ruined cities and live in them.
    They will plant vineyards and drink their wine;
    they will make gardens and eat their fruit.

15 

I will plant Israel in their own land,
    never again to be uprooted
    from the land I have given them,’

says the Lord your God.

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READINGS 

The Book of AMOS

Chapter Nine

Read by David Suchet 

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OVERVIEW

The Book of AMOS

(The Bible Project) 

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STUDY - LINKS

 The Book of AMOS

(David Pawson)

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AMOS - Bible .org

https://bible.org/seriespage/amos