text: import React from "react"
  import Book_layout from "../components/book_layout"
  import SEO from "../components/seo"
  
  const Nahum = () => (
    <Book_layout dll_txt="Nahum.txt" book_title="Nahum (KJV)">
      <SEO title="Nahum" />
      <p>
        The burden of Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite. God
        is jealous, and the LORD revengeth; the LORD revengeth, and is furious;
        the LORD will take vengeance on his adversaries, and he reserveth wrath
        for his enemies. The LORD is slow to anger, and great in power, and will
        not at all acquit the wicked: the LORD hath his way in the whirlwind and
        in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet. 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 mountains quake at
        him, and the hills melt, and the earth is burned at his presence, yea, the
        world, and all that dwell therein. Who can stand before his indignation?
        and who can abide in the fierceness of his anger? his fury is poured out
        like fire, and the rocks are thrown down by him. 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. For while they be folden together as thorns, and while they
        are drunken as drunkards, they shall be devoured as stubble fully dry.
        There is one come out of thee, that imagineth evil against the LORD, a
        wicked counseller. Thus 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. For now will I break
        his yoke from off thee, and will burst thy bonds in sunder. And 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. Behold 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. 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. 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. The shield
        of his mighty men is made red, the valiant men are in scarlet: the
        chariots shall be with flaming torches in the day of his preparation, and
        the fir trees shall be terribly shaken. The chariots shall rage in the
        streets, they shall justle one against another in the broad ways: they
        shall seem like torches, they shall run like the lightnings. 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. The gates of
        the rivers shall be opened, and the palace shall be dissolved. And Huzzab
        shall be led away captive, she shall be brought up, and her maids shall
        lead her as with the voice of doves, tabering upon their breasts. 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. Take ye the spoil of
        silver, take the spoil of gold: for there is none end of the store and
        glory out of all the pleasant furniture. She is empty, and void, and
        waste: and the heart melteth, and the knees smite together, and much pain
        is in all loins, and the faces of them all gather blackness. Where is the
        dwelling of the lions, and the feedingplace of the young lions, where the
        lion, even the old lion, walked, and the lion's whelp, and none made them
        afraid? 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. Behold, I am against thee, saith the 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. Woe to the bloody city! it is all full of lies and
        robbery; the prey departeth not; 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 horseman lifteth up both the bright sword and the glittering
        spear: and there is a multitude of slain, and a great number of carcases;
        and there is none end of their corpses; they stumble upon their corpses:
        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. Behold, I am against thee, saith the
        LORD of hosts; and I will discover thy skirts upon thy face, and I will
        shew the nations thy nakedness, and the kingdoms thy shame. And I will
        cast abominable filth upon thee, and make thee vile, and will set thee as
        a gazingstock. And it shall come to pass, that all they that look upon
        thee shall flee from thee, and say, Nineveh is laid waste: who will bemoan
        her? whence shall I seek comforters for thee? Art thou better than
        populous No, that was situate among the rivers, that had the waters round
        about it, whose rampart was the sea, and her wall was from the sea?
        Ethiopia and Egypt were her strength, and it was infinite; Put and Lubim
        were thy helpers. Yet was she carried away, she went into captivity: her
        young children also were dashed in pieces at the top of all the streets:
        and they cast lots for her honourable men, and all her great men were
        bound in chains. Thou also shalt be drunken: thou shalt be hid, thou also
        shalt seek strength because of the enemy. All thy strong holds shall be
        like fig trees with the firstripe figs: if they be shaken, they shall even
        fall into the mouth of the eater. Behold, thy people in the midst of thee
        are women: the gates of thy land shall be set wide open unto thine
        enemies: the fire shall devour thy bars. Draw thee waters for the siege,
        fortify thy strong holds: go into clay, and tread the morter, make strong
        the brickkiln. There shall the fire devour thee; the sword shall cut thee
        off, it shall eat thee up like the cankerworm: make thyself many as the
        cankerworm, make thyself many as the locusts. Thou hast multiplied thy
        merchants above the stars of heaven: the cankerworm spoileth, and flieth
        away. Thy crowned are as the locusts, and thy captains as the great
        grasshoppers, which camp in the hedges in the cold day, but when the sun
        ariseth they flee away, and their place is not known where they are. 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.
        There is no healing of thy bruise; thy wound is grievous: all that hear
        the bruit of thee shall clap the hands over thee: for upon whom hath not
        thy wickedness passed continually?
      </p>
    </Book_layout>
  )
  
  export default Nahum
  