< Nahum 1 >
1 The burden of Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite.
oracle Nineveh scroll: book vision Nahum [the] Elkoshite
2 Jehovah is a jealous God and avenges. Jehovah avenges and is full of wrath. Jehovah takes vengeance on his adversaries, and he reserves wrath for his enemies.
God jealous and to avenge LORD to avenge LORD and master: [master of] rage to avenge LORD to/for enemy his and to keep he/she/it to/for enemy his
3 Jehovah is slow to anger, and great in power, and will by no means clear the guilty. Jehovah has his way in the whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet.
LORD slow face: anger (and great: large *Q(K)*) strength and to clear not to clear LORD in/on/with whirlwind and in/on/with storm way: journey his and cloud dust foot his
4 He rebukes the sea, and makes it dry, and dries up all the rivers. Bashan languishes, and Carmel, and the flower of Lebanon languishes.
to rebuke in/on/with sea and to wither him and all [the] river to dry to weaken Bashan and Carmel and flower Lebanon to weaken
5 The mountains quake at him, and the hills melt, and the earth is up heaved at his presence. Yea, the world, and all who dwell therein.
mountain: mount to shake from him and [the] hill to melt and to lift: raise [the] land: country/planet from face: before his and world and all to dwell in/on/with her
6 Who can stand before his indignation? And who can abide in the fierceness of his anger? His wrath is poured out like fire, and the rocks are broken apart by him.
to/for face: before indignation his who? to stand: stand and who? to arise: rise in/on/with burning anger face: anger his rage his to pour like/as fire and [the] rock to tear from him
7 Jehovah is good, a stronghold in the day of trouble, and he knows those who take refuge in him.
pleasant LORD to/for security in/on/with day distress and to know to seek refuge in/on/with him
8 But with an over running flood he will make a full end of her place, and will pursue his enemies into darkness.
and in/on/with flood to pass consumption to make place her and enemy his to pursue darkness
9 What do ye devise against Jehovah? He will make a full end. Affliction shall not rise up the second time.
what? to devise: devise [emph?] to(wards) LORD consumption he/she/it to make not to arise: rise beat distress
10 For entangled like thorns, and drunken as with their drink, they are consumed utterly as dry stubble.
for till thorn to interweave and like/as liquor their to imbibe to eat like/as stubble dry full
11 He has gone forth out of thee, who devises evil against Jehovah, who counsels wickedness.
from you to come out: come to devise: devise upon LORD distress: evil to advise Belial: worthless
12 Thus says Jehovah: Though they be in full strength, and likewise many, even so they shall be cut down. And he shall pass away. Though I have afflicted thee, I will afflict thee no more.
thus to say LORD if complete and so many and so to shear and to pass and to afflict you not to afflict you still
13 And now I will break his yoke from off thee, and will burst thy bonds apart.
and now to break yoke his from upon you and bond your to tear
14 And Jehovah has given commandment concerning thee, that no more of thy name be sown. Out of the house of thy gods I will cut off the graven image and the molten image. I will make thy grave, for thou are vile.
and to command upon you LORD not to sow from name your still from house: temple God your to cut: eliminate idol and liquid to set: make grave your for to lighten
15 Behold, upon the mountains the feet of him who brings good news, who publishes peace! Keep thy feasts, O Judah. Perform thy vows, for the wicked one shall no more pass through thee. He is utterly cut off.
behold upon [the] mountain: mount foot to bear tidings to hear: proclaim peace to celebrate Judah feast your to complete vow your for not to add: again still (to/for to pass *Q(k)*) in/on/with you Belial: worthless all his to cut: eliminate