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fathers; that they rise not up, and possess the earth, and fill the face of the world with cities. And I will rise up against them, saith the LORD of hosts, and cut off from Babylon name and remnant, and son and son's son, saith the LORD. I will also make it a possession for the porcupine, and pools of water: and I will sweep it with the besom of destruction, saith the LORD of hosts.

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XI

NAHUM'S

DOOM OF NINEVEH

I

The LORD is a jealous God and avengeth; the LORD avengeth and is full of wrath; the LORD taketh vengeance on his adversaries, and he reserveth wrath for his enemies. The LORD is slow to anger, and great in power, and will by no means clear the guilty: 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 upheaved 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 broken asunder by him.

The LORD is good, a strong hold in the day of trouble; and he knoweth them that put their trust in him.

But with an overrunning flood he will make a full end of the place thereof, and will pursue his enemies into dark

ness.

What do ye imagine against the LORD? he will make a full end: affliction shall not rise up the second time. For though they be like tangled thorns, and be drenched as it were in their drink, they shall be devoured utterly as dry stubble. There is one gone forth out of thee, that imagineth evil against the LORD, that counselleth wickedness. Thus saith the LORD: 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. And now will I break his yoke from off thee, and will burst thy bonds in sunder.

And the 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.

3

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.

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 bringeth again 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 flash with steel in the day of his preparation,

And the spears are shaken terribly.

The chariots rage in the streets,

They justle one against another in the broad ways: The appearance of them is like torches,

They run like the lightnings.

He remembereth his worthies:

They stumble in their march;
They make haste to the wall thereof,

And the mantelet is prepared.

The gates of the rivers are opened, and the palace is dissolved:

And Huzzab is uncovered; she is carried away; And her handmaids mourn as with the voice of doves, Tabering upon their breasts.

But Nineveh hath been from of old like a pool of

water;

Yet they flee away :

'Stand, stand'.

But none looketh back.

Take ye the spoil of silver,
Take the spoil of gold;

For there is none end of the store,
The glory of all pleasant furniture.

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.

4

Where is the den of the lions,

And the feeding place of the young lions, Where the lion and the lioness walked,

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 caves with prey,

And his dens with ravin.

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