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Nahum 1

Of the destruction of the Assyrians, & of the deliverance of Israél.
1.The aburden of Ninevéh.
2.bThe book of the vision of Nahúm the cElkeshite. God is djelous, & the Lord revengeth: the Lord revengeth: even the Lord eof anger, the Lord wil take vengeance on his adversaries, and he reserveth wrath for his enemies.
3.The fLord is slow to anger, but he is great in power, and wil not surely clear the wicked: the Lord hath his way in the whirl wind, and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet.
4.He rebuketh the sea, & dryeth it, & he dryeth up all the rivers: Bashán is wasted & Carmél, & the floure of Lebanón is wasted.
5.The mountains tremble for him, and the hills melt, and the earth is burnt at his sight, yea, the world, & all that dwell therein.
6.gWho can stand before his wrath? or who can abide in the fierceness of his wrath? his wrath is powred out like fire, and the rocks are broken by him,
7.The Lord is good hand as a strong hold in the day of trouble, and he knoweth them that trust in him.
8.But passing over as with a flood, he will utterly destroy the iplace thereof, and darkness shal pursue his enemies.
9.What do ye kimagine against the Lord? he will make an utter destruction: affliction shal not rise up the second time.
10.For he shal come as unto lthornes folden one in another, and as unto drunkards in their drunkenness: they shalbe devoured as stubble fully dried.
11.There mcometh one out of thee that imagineth evil against the Lord, even a wicked counselour.
12.Thus saith the Lord, Though they be nquiet, and also many, UM yet thus shal they be cut off when he shal pass by: though I have afflicted thee, I will afflict thee no more.
13.For now I will break his yoke from thee, and will burst thy bonds in sondre.
14.And the Lord hath given a commandment concerning thee, that no more of thy name be osowen: out of the house of thy gods will I cut off the graven, and the molten image: I will make it thy grave for thee, for thou art vile.
15.*Behold upon the mountains the feet of him that declareth, and publisheth ppeace: ô Judáh, keep thy solemn feasts, perform thy vows: for the wicked shal no more pass through thee: he is utterly cut off.

Notes

1-a.
Read Isa. 33.1.
2-b.
The vision or revelation, which God commanded Nahum to write concerning the Ninevites.
2-c.
That is, born of a poor village in the tribe of Simeon.
2-d.
Meaning, of his glory.
2-e.
With his he is but angry for a time, but his anger never aswages toward the reprobate, though for a time he defers it.
3-f.
Thus the wicked would make God’s mercy an occasion to sin, but the Prophet wills them to consider his force and justice.
6-g.
If all creatures be at God’s commandment and none is able to resist his wrath, shall man flatter himself and think by any means to escape when he provokes his God to anger?
7-h.
Lest the faithful should be discourage by hearing the power of God, he shows them that his mercies appertain unto them, and that he has care over them.
8-i.
Signifying, that God will suddenly destroy Nineveh, and the Assyrians in such sort as they shall lie in perpetual darkness, and never recover their strength again.
9-k.
He shows that the enterprises of the Assyrians against Judah and the Church, were against God, and therefore he would so destroy them at once, that he should not need to return the second time.
10-l.
Though the Assyrians think themselves like thorns that prick on all sides yet the Lord will set fire on them, and as drunken men are not able to stand against any force, so they shall be nothing able to resist him.
11-m.
Which may be understand either of Saneherib, or of the whole body of the people of Nineveh.
12-n.
Though they think themselves in most safety, and of greatest strength yet when God shall pass by, he will destroy them: notwithstand- ing he comforts his Church and promises to make an end of punishing them by the Assyrians.
14-o.
Meaning Saneherib, who should have no more children, but be slain in the house of his gods, 2 Kings 19.35.
15-*.
Isa. 52.7, Rom. 10.15.
15-p.
Which peace the Jews should enjoy by the death of Saneherib.