1Beban Niniwe. Kitab penglihatan Nahum, orang Elkosh.
2Allah cemburu, dan TUHAN membalas dendam; TUHAN membalas dendam, dan meradang; TUHAN akan membalas dendam terhadap para penentangnya, dan dia menyimpan murka bagi musuh-musuhnya.
3TUHAN itu lambat menjadi marah, dan besar dalam kuasa, dan langsung tidak akan melepaskan orang durjana: TUHAN itu menurut sesuka hatinya di dalam puting beliung dan ribut, dan awan-awan itu merupakan debu dari tapak kakinya.
4Dia menegur lautan, dan menjadikannya kering, dan mengeringkan semua sungai: Basan dan Karmel layu, dan bunga di Libanon layu.
5Gunung-gunung bergegar terhadapnya, dan bukit-bukit melebur, dan bumi terbakar di hadiratnya, ya, dunia, dan segalanya yang berdiam di dalamnya.
6Siapakah yang dapat bertahan di hadapan kemarahannya? dan siapakah yang dapat berdiam dalam keganasan amarahnya? keradangannya dituang keluar seperti api, dan batu-batu dilemparkan ke bawah olehnya.
7TUHAN itu baik, suatu kubu kuat pada masa kesesakan; dan dia mengenal mereka yang percaya kepadanya.
8But with an overrunning flood he will make an utter end of the place thereof, and darkness shall pursue his enemies.
9What do ye imagine against the LORD? he will make an utter end: affliction shall not rise up the second time.
10For while they be folden together as thorns, and while they are drunken as drunkards, they shall be devoured as stubble fully dry.
11There is one come out of thee, that imagineth evil against the LORD, a wicked counsellor.a wicked�: Heb. a counsellor of Belial
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.Though�: or, If they would have been at peace, so should they have been many, and so should they have been shorn, and he should have passed awaycut down: Heb. shorn
13For now will I break his yoke from off thee, and will burst thy bonds in sunder.
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.
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.keep�: Heb. feastthe wicked: Heb. Belial