1 The burden concerning Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum the Elkohshite.
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 acquit the wicked: 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 withers, and Carmel, and the flower of Lebanon fades.
5 The mountains quake before him, and the hills melt, and the earth is burned at his presence, yea, the world, and all that dwell in it.