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Nahum 1

Nahum opens not with Nineveh but with a portrait of the God who will undo it: jealous, slow to anger, yet leaving no guilt unpunished. The sea dries up, Bashan and Carmel wither, mountains quake. Only midway does the named target appear, and the chapter pivots from cosmic terror to a strange comfort for Judah. Watch how the same God is two things at once. Verse 7 calls him "a stronghold in the day of trouble" for those who take refuge; the surrounding verses pour wrath out like fire. The reader is meant to feel both before the city is even besieged.

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Nahum 1 (WEB)

1
A revelation about Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite.
2
The LORD is a jealous God and avenges. The LORD avenges and is full of wrath. The LORD takes vengeance on his adversaries, and he maintains wrath against his enemies.
3
The LORD is slow to anger, and great in power, and will by no means leave the guilty unpunished. The LORD has his way in the whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet.
4
He rebukes the sea and makes it dry, and dries up all the rivers. Bashan and Carmel languish. The flower of Lebanon languishes.
5
The mountains quake before him, and the hills melt away. The earth trembles at his presence, yes, the world, and all who dwell in it.
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Who can stand before his indignation? Who can endure the fierceness of his anger? His wrath is poured out like fire, and the rocks are broken apart by him.
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The LORD is good, a stronghold in the day of trouble; and he knows those who take refuge in him.
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But with an overflowing flood, he will make a full end of her place, and will pursue his enemies into darkness.
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What do you plot against the LORD? He will make a full end. Affliction won’t rise up the second time.
10
For entangled like thorns, and drunken as with their drink, they are consumed utterly like dry stubble.
11
One has gone out of you who devises evil against the LORD, who counsels wickedness.
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The LORD says: “Though they are in full strength and likewise many, even so they will be cut down and pass away. Though I have afflicted you, I will afflict you no more.
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Now I will break his yoke from off you, and will burst your bonds apart.”
14
The LORD has commanded concerning you: “No more descendants will bear your name. Out of the house of your gods, I will cut off the engraved image and the molten image. I will make your grave, for you are vile.”
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Behold, on the mountains the feet of him who brings good news, who publishes peace! Keep your feasts, Judah! Perform your vows, for the wicked one will no more pass through you. He is utterly cut off.

Nahúm 1 (RV1909)

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CARGA de Nínive. Libro de la visión de Nahum de El-kosh.
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Dios celoso y vengador es Jehová; vengador es Jehová, y Señor de ira; Jehová, que se venga de sus adversarios, y que guarda enojo para sus enemigos.
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Jehová es tardo para la ira, y grande en poder, y no tendrá al culpado por inocente. Jehová marcha entre la tempestad y turbión, y las nubes son el polvo de sus pies.
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El amenaza á la mar, y la hace secar, y agosta todos los ríos: Basán fué destruído, y el Carmelo, y la flor del Líbano fué destruída.
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Los montes tiemblan de él, y los collados se deslíen; y la tierra se abrasa á su presencia, y el mundo, y todos los que en él habitan.
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¿Quién permanecerá delante de su ira? ¿y quién quedará en pié en el furor de su enojo? Su ira se derrama como fuego, y por él se hienden las peñas.
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Bueno es Jehová para fortaleza en el día de la angustia; y conoce á los que en él confían.
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Mas con inundación impetuosa hará consumación de su lugar, y tinieblas perseguirán á sus enemigos.
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¿Qué pensáis contra Jehová? El hará consumación: la tribulación no se levantará dos veces.
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Porque como espinas entretegidas, mientras se embriagarán los borrachos, serán consumidos como las estopas llenas de sequedad.
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De ti salió el que pensó mal contra Jehová, un consultor impío.
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Así ha dicho Jehová: Aunque reposo tengan, y sean tantos, así serán talados, y él pasará. Bien que te he afligido, no más te afligiré.
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Porque ahora quebraré su yugo de sobre ti, y romperé tus coyundas.
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Mas acerca de ti mandará Jehová, que nunca más sea sembrado alguno de tu nombre: de la casa de tu dios talaré escultura y estatua de fundición, haréla tu sepulcro; porque fuiste vil.
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He aquí sobre los montes los pies del que trae buenas nuevas, del que pregona la paz. Celebra, oh Judá, tus fiestas, cumple tus votos: porque nunca más pasará por ti el malvado; pereció del todo.

Two addresses, one oracle

The chapter quietly switches who it is talking to. Verses 12-13 promise an afflicted people their yoke broken and their bonds burst; verse 14 turns to a "you" who is vile, whose gods' images will be cut off and whose grave is being dug. One is Judah, the other Nineveh, and Nahum lets the pronouns do the work without labeling them.

It closes on the messenger's feet on the mountains publishing peace (v.15), telling Judah to keep its feasts because "the wicked one" will pass through no more. That herald image sets up the war reporting of chapters 2 and 3, where the fall is no longer foretold but watched.