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1 The burden of Nineve: the book of the vision of Naum the Elkesite.
oracle Nineveh scroll: book vision Nahum [the] Elkoshite
2 God is jealous, and the Lord avenges; the Lord avenges with wrath; the Lord takes vengeance on his adversaries, and he cuts off 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 The Lord is long-suffering, and his power is great, and the Lord will not hold any guiltless: his way is in destruction and in the whirlwind, 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 threatens the sea, and dries it up, and exhausts all the rivers: the land of Basan, and Carmel are brought low, and the flourishing [trees] of Libanus have come to nought.
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 are shaken, and the earth recoils at his presence, [even] the world, and all that dwell in it.
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 shall stand before his anger? and who shall withstand in the anger of his wrath? his wrath brings to nought kingdoms, and the rocks are burst asunder 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 The Lord is good to them that wait on him in the day of affliction; and he knows them that reverence 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 overrunning flood he will make an utter end: darkness shall pursue those that rise up against [him] and his enemies.
and in/on/with flood to pass consumption to make place her and enemy his to pursue darkness
9 What do ye devise against the Lord? he will make a complete end: he will not take vengeance by affliction twice at the same time.
what? to devise: devise [emph?] to(wards) LORD consumption he/she/it to make not to arise: rise beat distress
10 For [the enemy] shall be laid bare even to the foundation, and shall be devoured as twisted yew, and as stubble fully dry.
for till thorn to interweave and like/as liquor their to imbibe to eat like/as stubble dry full
11 Out of thee shall proceed a device against the Lord, counselling evil things hostile [to him].
from you to come out: come to devise: devise upon LORD distress: evil to advise Belial: worthless
12 Thus saith the Lord who rules over many waters, Even thus shall they be sent away, and the report of thee shall not be heard any 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 will I break his rod from off thee, and will burst [thy] bonds.
and now to break yoke his from upon you and bond your to tear
14 And the Lord shall give a command concerning thee; there shall no more of thy name be scattered: I will utterly destroy the graven [images] out of the house of thy god, and the molten [images]: I will make thy grave; for [they are] swift.
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 that brings glad tidings, and publishes peace! O Juda, keep thy feasts, pay thy vows: for they shall no more pass through thee to [thy] decay.
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