1 The burden of Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite.
2 God is jealous, and the Lord avenges; the Lord avenges and is furious; the Lord will take vengeance on his adversaries, and he reserves wrath for his enemies.
3 The Lord is slow to anger and great in power and will not at all treat the guilty as though they were innocent; the Lord whose way is in the whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet.
4 He reprehends the sea and makes it dry and dries up all the rivers; Bashan was destroyed, and Carmel; and the flower of Lebanon was destroyed.