Nahum · Brenton's English Septuagint
Nahum 1 Brenton's English Septuagint
Audio: World English Bible (WEB), read by Winfred W. Henson · About the recordings
Notes on this text (2)
- Square brackets mark words Brenton supplied for English sense.
- Old Testament only (no New Testament). First printed 1844; the 1851 edition added the deuterocanonical books.
Nahum is not in PT1904.
1 The burden of Nineve: the book of the vision of Naum the Elkesite.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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7 The Lord is good to them that wait on him in the day of affliction; and he knows them that reverence him.
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8 But with an overrunning flood he will make an utter end: darkness shall pursue those that rise up against [him] and his enemies.
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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.
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10 For [the enemy] shall be laid bare even to the foundation, and shall be devoured as twisted yew, and as stubble fully dry.
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11 Out of thee shall proceed a device against the Lord, counselling evil things hostile [to him].
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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.
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13 And now will I break his rod from off thee, and will burst [thy] bonds.
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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.
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Cross references (14)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Zephaniah 2:13; Zechariah 9:1; Jonah 1:2; Nahum 2:8; Isaiah 13:1
- 2 Exodus 20:5; Zechariah 8:2; Psalm 94:1; Exodus 34:14; Joshua 24:19
- 3 Psalm 147:5; Exodus 34:6–7; Nehemiah 9:17; Psalm 103:8; Psalm 104:3
- 4 Isaiah 33:9; Psalm 106:9; Isaiah 50:2–3; Isaiah 51:10; Joshua 3:13–15
- 5 Micah 1:4; Jeremiah 4:24; 2 Samuel 22:8; Judges 5:5; Isaiah 64:1–2
- 6 Jeremiah 10:10; Malachi 3:2; Deuteronomy 32:22–23; Psalm 76:7; Nahum 1:2
- 7 John 10:27; 2 Timothy 2:19; Lamentations 3:25; John 10:14; Psalm 91:1–2
- 8 Ezekiel 13:13; Isaiah 8:22; Isaiah 28:17; Zephaniah 2:13; Amos 8:8
- 9 Psalm 21:11; Proverbs 21:30; Psalm 33:10; 2 Corinthians 10:5; Psalm 2:1–4
- 10 Micah 7:4; Isaiah 5:24; Nahum 3:11; Malachi 4:1; Jeremiah 51:57
- 11 Nahum 1:9; 2 Chronicles 13:7; 1 Samuel 2:12; 2 Kings 18:30; 2 Chronicles 32:15–19
- 12 Joel 2:19; Isaiah 30:19; Isaiah 17:14; Isaiah 7:20; Isaiah 37:36
- 13 Isaiah 10:27; Isaiah 9:4; Jeremiah 2:20; Isaiah 14:25; Psalm 107:14
- 14 Psalm 109:13; Micah 5:13; Proverbs 10:7; Isaiah 46:1–2; Ezekiel 32:22–23
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