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The burden of Nineveh . The book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite.

The gates of the rivers shall be opened, and the palace shall be dissolved.

There is one come out of thee, that imagineth evil against the Lord, a wicked counsellor.

Ethiopia and Egypt were her strength, and it was infinite; Put and Libya were thy helpers.

Thou hast multiplied thy merchants above the stars of heaven: the cankerworm spoileth, and flieth away.

For now will I break his yoke from off thee, and will burst thy bonds in sunder.

Woe to the bloody city! it is all full of lies and robbery; the prey departeth not;

Thou also shalt be drunken: thou shalt be hid, thou also shalt seek strength because of the enemy.

And I will cast abominable filth upon thee, and make thee vile, and will set thee as a gazingstock.

The Lord is good, a strong hold in the day of trouble; and he knoweth them that trust in him.

But with an overrunning flood he will make an utter end of the place thereof, and darkness shall pursue his enemies.

What do ye imagine against the Lord? he will make an utter end: affliction shall not rise up the second time.

Draw thee waters for the siege, fortify thy strong holds: go into clay, and tread the mortar, make strong the brickkiln.

For while they be folden together as thorns, and while they are drunken as drunkards, they shall be devoured as stubble fully dry.

He rebuketh the sea, and maketh it dry, and drieth up all the rivers: Bashan languisheth, and Carmel , and the flower of Lebanon languisheth.

The noise of a whip, and the noise of the rattling of the wheels, and of the pransing horses, and of the jumping chariots.

The mountains quake at him, and the hills melt, and the earth is burned at his presence, yea, the world, and all that dwell therein.

He that dasheth in pieces is come up before thy face: keep the munition, watch the way, make thy loins strong, fortify thy power mightily.

He shall recount his worthies: they shall stumble in their walk; they shall make haste to the wall thereof, and the defence shall be prepared.

But Nineveh is of old like a pool of water: yet they shall flee away. Stand, stand, shall they cry; but none shall look back.

The lion did tear in pieces enough for his whelps, and strangled for his lionesses, and filled his holes with prey, and his dens with ravin.

Because of the multitude of the whoredoms of the wellfavoured harlot, the mistress of witchcrafts, that selleth nations through her whoredoms, and families through her witchcrafts.

Thy shepherds slumber, O king of Assyria : thy nobles shall dwell in the dust: thy people is scattered upon the mountains, and no man gathereth them.

For the Lord hath turned away the excellency of Jacob , as the excellency of Israel : for the emptiers have emptied them out, and marred their vine branches.