1 The oracle concerning Nineveh— the scroll of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite:
2 Yahweh is a jealous God and avenging; Yahweh is avenging and full of wrath. Yahweh takes vengeance against his enemies; he rages against his adversaries.
3 Yahweh is slow to anger but great in power; he will certainly not allow the guilty to go unpunished. He marches in storm wind and in gale; storm clouds are the dust of his feet.
4 He rebukes the sea and he dries up the rivers; he makes all the rivers run dry. Bashan and Carmel wither; the blossom of Lebanon languishes.
5 Mountains quake before him; the hills shake apart. The earth heaves before him— the world and all her inhabitants.