| 1:2 |
TheJehovah Lord is a jealous God and avengeth; theJehovah Lord avengeth and is full of wrath; theJehovah Lord taketh vengeance on his adversaries, and he reserveth wrath for his enemies. |
| 1:3 |
TheJehovah Lord is slow to anger, and great in power, and will by no means clear the guilty: theJehovah Lord hath his way in the whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet. |
| 1:4 |
He rebuketh the sea, and maketh it dry, and drieth up all the rivers: Bashan languisheth, and Carmel,; and the flower of Lebanon languisheth. |
| 1:6 |
Who can stand before his indignation? and who can abide in the fierceness of his anger? his furywrath is poured out like fire, and the rocks are broken asunder by him. |
| 1:7 |
TheJehovah Lord is good, a strongstronghold hold in the day of trouble; and he knoweth them that puttake theirrefuge trust in him. |
| 1:8 |
But with an overrunningover running flood he will make a full end of theher place thereof, and will pursue his enemies into darkness. |
| 1:9 |
What do ye imaginedevise against the LordJehovah? he will make a full end:; affliction shall not rise up the second time. |
| 1:10 |
For thoughentangled they be like tangled thorns, toldand bedrunken drenched as itwith were in their drink, they shallare beconsumed devoured utterly as dry stubble. |
| 1:11 |
There is one gone forth out of thee, that imaginethdeviseth evil against the LordJehovah, that counselleth wickedness. |
| 1:12 |
Thus saith the LordJehovah: Though they be in full strength, and likewise many, even so shall they be cut down, and he shall pass away. Though I have afflicted thee, I will afflict thee no more. |
| 1:14 |
And theJehovah Lord hath given 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. |
| 1:15 |
Behold, upon the mountains the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace! Keep thy feasts, O Judah, perform thy vows:; for the wicked one shall no more pass through thee; he is utterly cut off. |
| 2:1 |
He that dasheth in pieces is come up beforeagainst thy facethee: keep the munitionfortress, watch the way, make thy loins strong, fortify thy power mightily. |
| 2:2 |
For theJehovah Lordrestoreth bringeth again the excellency of Jacob, as the excellency of Israel:; for the emptiers have emptied them out, and marreddestroyed their vine branches. |
| 2:3 |
The shield of his mighty men is made red, the valiant men are in scarlet: the chariots flash with steel in the day of his preparation, and the cypress spears are shaken terriblybrandished. |
| 2:4 |
The chariots rage in the streets,; they justlerush oneto againstand anotherfro in the broad ways: the appearance of them is like torches,; they run like the lightnings. |
| 2:5 |
He remembereth his worthiesnobles: they stumble in their march; they make haste to the wall thereof, and the mantelet is prepared. |
| 2:7 |
And Huzzabit is decreed: she is uncovered, she is carried away,; and her handmaids mournmoan as with the voice of doves, taberingbeating upon their breasts. |
| 2:8 |
But Nineveh hath been from of old like a pool of water: yet they flee away;. Stand, stand, they cry; but none looketh back. |
| 2:9 |
Take ye the spoil of silver, take the spoil of gold:; for there is noneno end of the store, the glory of all pleasantgoodly furniture. |
| 2:10 |
She is empty, and void, and waste:; and the heart melteth, and the knees smite together, and anguish is in all loins, and the faces of them all are waxed pale. |
| 2:13 |
Behold, I am against thee, saith theJehovah Lord of hosts, and I will burn her chariots in the smoke, and the sword shall devour thy young lions:; and I will cut off thy prey from the earth, and the voice of thy messengers shall no more be heard. |
| 3:2 |
The noise of the whip, and the noise of the rattling of wheels;, and pransingprancing horses, and jumpingbounding chariots;, |
| 3:3 |
the horseman mounting, and the flashing sword, and the glittering spear;, and a multitude of slain, and a great heap of carcases:corpses, and there is noneno end of the corpsesbodies; they stumble upon their corpses:bodies;— |
| 3:4 |
because of the multitude of the whoredoms of the well favouredfavored harlot, the mistress of witchcrafts, that selleth nations through her whoredoms, and families through her witchcrafts. |
| 3:5 |
Behold, I am against thee, saith theJehovah Lord of hosts, and I will discoveruncover thy skirts upon thy face; and I will shewshow the nations thy nakedness, and the kingdoms thy shame. |
| 3:6 |
And I will cast abominable filth upon thee, and make thee vile, and will set thee as a gazingstockgazing stock. |
| 3:10 |
Yet was she carried away, she went into captivity:; her young children also were dashed in pieces at the tophead of all the streets:; and they cast lots for her honourablehonorable men, and all her great men were bound in chains. |
| 3:11 |
Thou also shalt be drunken,; thou shalt be hid; thou also shalt seek a strongstronghold hold because of the enemy. |
| 3:12 |
All thy fortresses shall be like fig trees with the firstripefirst ripe figs: if they be shaken, they fall into the mouth of the eater. |
| 3:14 |
Draw thee water for the siege,; strengthen thy fortresses:; go into the clay, and tread the mortar,; make strong the brickkiln. |
| 3:15 |
There shall the fire devour thee; the sword shall cut thee off,; it shall devour thee like the cankerwormcanker worm: make thyself many as the cankerworm,canker worm; make thyself many as the locust. |
| 3:16 |
Thou hast multiplied thy merchants above the stars of heaven: the cankerwormcanker spoilethworm ravageth, and fliethfleeth away. |
| 3:17 |
Thy crownedprinces are as the locusts, and thy marshals as the swarms of grasshoppers, which campencamp in the hedges in the cold day, but when the sun ariseth they flee away, and their place is not known where they are. |
| 3:18 |
Thy shepherds slumber, O king of Assyria:; thy worthiesnobles are at rest:; thy people are scattered upon the mountains, and there is none to gather them. |
| 3:19 |
There is no assuaging of thy hurt; thy wound is grievous: all that hear the bruitreport of thee clap thetheir hands over thee; for upon whom hath not thy wickedness passed continually? |