Bible in 90 Days

¹¹ “On that day, I will raise up the tabernacle of David, which is fallen down; and close up the breaches thereof. And I will raise up its ruins. And I will build it, as in the days of old,

¹² “that they may possess the remnant of Edom—and of all the heathen—because My Name is called upon them,” says the LORD, Who does this.

¹³ “Behold, the days come,” says the LORD, “that the plowman shall touch the mower; and the treader of grapes him who sows seed. And the mountains shall drop sweet wine. And all the hills shall melt.

¹⁴ “And I will bring back the captives of My people of Israel. And they shall build the waste cities and inhabit them. And they shall plant vineyards and drink the wine thereof. They shall also make gardens and eat the fruits of them.

¹⁵ “And I will plant them upon their land. And no more shall they be pulled up again out of their land which I have given them,” says the LORD your God.

¹ The vision of Obadiah. Thus says the LORD God against Edom: (We have heard a rumor from the LORD. And an ambassador has been sent among the heathen. Arise and let us rise up against her to battle!)

² “Behold, I have made you small among the heathen. You are utterly despised.

³ “The pride of your heart has deceived you, you who dwells in the clefts of the rocks, whose habitation is high, who says in his heart, ‘Who shall bring me down to the ground?’

⁴ “Though you exalt yourself as the eagle, and make your nest among the stars, there will I bring you down,” says the LORD.

⁵ “Did thieves or robbers come to you at night? How were you brought to silence? Would they not have stolen until they had enough? If the grape gatherers came to you, would they not leave some grapes?

⁶ “How the things of Esau will be sought, and his treasures searched!

⁷ “All the men of your confederacy have driven you to the borders. The men who were at peace with you have deceived you and prevailed against you. Those who eat your bread have laid a trap for you. There is no understanding in him.

⁸ “Shall I not, on that day,” says the LORD, “destroy the wise men from Edom, and understanding from the Mount of Esau?

⁹ “And your strong men, O Teman, shall be afraid. Because everyone of the Mount of Esau shall be cut off by slaughter.

¹⁰ “Because of your cruelty against your brother, Jacob, shame shall cover you. And you shall be cut off forever.

¹¹ “When you stood on the other side, in the time when the strangers carried away his wealth, and strangers entered into his gates and cast lots upon Jerusalem, you were as one of them.

¹² “But you should not have stared in the time of your brother, in the time that he was made a stranger. Nor should you have rejoiced over the children of Judah in the time of their destruction. You should not have spoken proudly in the time of affliction.

¹³ “You should not have entered into the gate of My people in the time of their destruction. Nor should you have once looked on their affliction in the time of their destruction, nor have laid hands on their wealth in the time of their destruction.

¹⁴ “Nor should you have stood in the crossways to cut off those who would escape. Nor should you have shut up their remnant in the time of affliction.

¹⁵ “For the Day of the LORD upon all the heathen is near. As you have done, it shall be done to you. Your reward shall return upon your head.

¹⁶ “For as you have drunk upon My Holy Mountain, so shall all the heathen drink continually. Indeed, they shall drink and swallow up. And they shall be as though they had not been.

¹⁷ “But upon Mount Zion shall be deliverance. And it shall be holy. And the House of Jacob shall possess their possessions.

¹⁸ And the House of Jacob shall be a fire, and the House of Joseph a flame, and the House of Esau as stubble. And they shall kindle them and devour them. And there shall be no remnant of the House of Esau,” for the LORD has spoken it.

¹⁹ And they shall possess the southern side of the Mount of Esau and the plain of the Philistines. And they shall possess the fields of Ephraim and the fields of Samaria. And Benjamin shall have Gilead.

²⁰ And the captivity of this host of the children of Israel who were among the Canaanites shall possess to Zarephath. And the captivity of Jerusalem, which is in Sepharad, shall possess the cities of the South.

²¹ And those who shall save shall come up to Mount Zion to judge the Mount of Esau. And the kingdom shall be the LORD’s.

1 The Word of the LORD also came to Jonah, the son of Amittai, saying,

² “Arise! Go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry against it. For their wickedness has come up before Me.”

³ But Jonah rose up to flee into Tarshish—from the presence of the LORD—and went down to Japho. And he found a ship going to Tarshish. So he paid its fare and went down into it, so that he might go with them to Tarshish, from the presence of the LORD.

⁴ But the LORD sent out a great wind into the sea; and there was a mighty tempest in the sea, so that the ship was about to be broken.

⁵ Then the mariners were afraid; and every man cried to his god and cast the wares that were in the ship, into the sea, to lighten it of them. But Jonah had gone down into the sides of the ship. And he lay down and was fast asleep.

⁶ So the shipmaster came to him, and said to him, “What do you mean, O sleeper? Arise! Call upon your God! Perhaps God will think upon us, so that we do not perish!”

⁷ And they said to one another, “Come, and let us cast lots, so that we may know for whose cause this evil is upon us. So, they cast lots. And the lot fell upon Jonah.

⁸ Then they said to him, “Tell us for whose cause this evil is upon us? What is your occupation? And from where do you come? Which is your country? And of what people are you?”

⁹ And he answered them, “I am a Hebrew. And I fear the LORD God of Heaven, Who has made the sea and the dry land.”

¹⁰ Then the men were very afraid, and said to him, “Why have you done this? (for the men knew that he fled from the presence of the LORD, because he had told them)

¹¹ Then they said to him, “What shall we do to you, so that the sea may be calm to us!? (for the sea continued to be tempestuous)

¹² And he said to them, “Take me; and cast me into the sea! So shall the sea be calm to you! For I know it is for my sake that this great tempest is upon you!”

¹³ Nevertheless, the men rowed to bring it to the land. But they could not. For the tempest in the sea continued.

¹⁴ Therefore, they cried to the LORD, and said, “We beg You, O LORD! We beg You! Let us not perish for this man’s life! And do not lay innocent blood upon us! For You, O LORD, have done as it pleased You!”

¹⁵ So, they took up Jonah, and cast him into the sea. And the sea ceased from her raging.

¹⁶ Then the men feared the LORD exceedingly, and offered a sacrifice to the LORD, and made vows.

¹⁷ Now the LORD had prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah. And Jonah was in the belly of the fish for three days and three nights.

2 Then Jonah prayed to the LORD his God out of the fish’s belly,

² and said, “I cried to the LORD in my affliction and He heard me. Out of the belly of hell I cried. You heard my voice.

³ “For You had cast me into the bottom, in the midst of the sea. And the floods surrounded me. All Your surges and all Your waves passed over me.

⁴ “Then I said, “I am cast away, out of Your sight. Yet, I will look once again toward Your Holy Temple.

⁵ “The waters surrounded me, to the soul. The depth closed me all around; and the weeds were wrapped around my head.

⁶ “I went down to the bottom of the mountains. The Earth, with her bars, was around me forever. Still, You have brought up my life from the pit, O LORD my God.

⁷ “When my soul fainted within me, I remembered the LORD; and my prayer came to You into Your Holy Temple.

⁸ “Those who observe lying vanities forsake their own mercy.

⁹ “But I will sacrifice to You with the voice of thanksgiving; and will pay that which I have vowed. Salvation is from the LORD.”

¹⁰ And the LORD spoke to the fish, and it cast out Jonah upon the dry land.

3 And the Word of the LORD came to Jonah the second time, saying,

² “Arise. Go to Nineveh, that great city; and preach to it the preaching which I command you.”

³ So Jonah arose and went to Nineveh, according to the Word of the LORD. Now, Nineveh was a large city of three days’ journey.

⁴ And Jonah began to enter into the city a day’s journey, and he cried and said, “Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown!”

⁵ So the people of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them.

⁶ For Word came to the king of Nineveh. And he rose from his throne. And he laid his robe aside and covered himself with sackcloth and sat in ashes.

⁷ And he proclaimed and said through Nineveh, (by the counsel of the king and his nobles) saying, “Let neither man nor beast, bullock nor sheep, taste anything nor feed nor drink water.

⁸ “But let man and beast put on sackcloth and cry mightily to God. Indeed, let every man turn from his evil way, and from the wickedness that is in their hands.

⁹ “Who can tell if God will turn and have compassion and turn away from His fierce wrath, so that we do not perish?”

¹⁰ And God saw their works — that they turned from their evil ways — and God turned from of the evil that He had said that He would do to them; and He did it not.

4 Therefore it displeased Jonah exceedingly; and he was angry.

² And he prayed to the LORD, and said, “Ah now, O LORD, was not this what I said when I was still in my country? Therefore, I fled to Tarshish before. For I knew that You are a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness. And You turn from evil.

³ “Therefore, O LORD, I beg You, take my life from me now. For it is better for me to die than to live.”

⁴ “Then the LORD said, “Do you do well to be angry?

⁵ So Jonah went out of the city and sat on the east side of the city. And he made a booth there and sat under it, in the shadow, until he might see what would be done in the city.

⁶ And the LORD God prepared a plant, and made it to come up over Jonah, so that it might be a shade over his head and deliver him from his grief. So, Jonah was exceedingly glad for the plant.

⁷ But when the morning rose the next day, God prepared a worm. And it struck the plant, so that it withered.

⁸ And when the Sun arose, God also prepared a fervent east wind. And the Sun beat upon the head of Jonah, so that he fainted and wished in his heart to die, and said, “It is better for me to die than to live.”

⁹ And God said to Jonah, “Do you do well to be angry for the plant?” And he said, “I do well to be angry unto death!”

¹⁰ Then the LORD said, “You have had pity on a plant which you have neither tended nor made grow, which came up in a night and perished in a night.

¹¹ And should I not spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are 120,000 people, and many cattle, who cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand?

1 The Word of the LORD that came to Micah the Moreshite, in the days of Jotham, Ahaz and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, which he saw concerning Samaria and Jerusalem.

² Hear, all you people! Listen, O Earth, and all that therein is! And let the LORD God be Witness against you, the LORD from His Holy Temple.

³ For behold, the LORD comes out of His place and will come down and tread upon the high places of the Earth.

⁴ And the mountains shall melt under Him. So shall the valleys cling as wax before the fire, as the waters that are poured downward.

⁵ This is all because of the wickedness of Jacob, and for the sins of the House of Israel. What is the wickedness of Jacob? Is it not Samaria? And what are the high places of Judah? Is it not Jerusalem?

⁶ “Therefore, I will make Samaria as a heap of the field, for the planting of a vineyard. And I will make its stones tumble down into the valley. And I will uncover its foundations.

⁷ “And all its graven images shall be broken. And all its gifts shall be burnt with the fire. And I will destroy all its idols. For she gathered it from the hire of a harlot. And they shall return to the wages of a harlot.”

⁸ Therefore I will mourn and howl! I will go without clothes, naked. I will make lamentation like the dragons, and mourning as the ostriches.

⁹ For her plagues are grievous. For it has come into Judah, has come to the gate of my people, to Jerusalem.

¹⁰ Do not declare it at Gath, or weep. Roll yourself in the dust for the House of Aphrah.

¹¹ You who dwell at Shaphir go together, naked with shame. She who dwells at Zaanan shall not come forth in the mourning of Beth Ezel. Your standing shall be taken from you.

¹² For the inhabitant of Maroth waited for good, but evil came from the LORD to the gate of Jerusalem.

¹³ O you inhabitant of Lachish! Bind the chariot to the beasts of price. She is the beginning of sin to the daughter of Zion. For the transgressions of Israel were found in you.

¹⁴ Therefore, you shall give presents to Moresheth Gath. The houses of Achzib shall be as a lie to the kings of Israel.

¹⁵ Yet I will bring an heir to you, O inhabitant of Mareshah. He, the glory of Israel, shall come to Adullam.

¹⁶ Make yourself bald and shave yourself for your delicate children. Enlarge your baldness as the eagle; for they have gone into captivity from you.

2 Woe to those who imagine iniquity and work wickedness upon their beds! In the morning light they practice it, because their hand has power.

² And they covet fields and houses and take them by violence and take them away. So, they oppress a man and his house, man and his heritage.

³ Therefore, thus says the LORD: “Behold, I have planned misery against this family, from which you cannot remove your necks. And you shall not go proudly; for this time shall be miserable.

⁴ “At that time, they shall take up a parable against you and lament with a doleful lamentation, and say, ‘We are utterly destroyed! He has exchanged the portion of my people. How can He take it away! He has divided our fields!’

⁵ “Therefore, you shall have no one who shall cast a measuring line by lot in the Congregation of the LORD.

⁶ “Those who prophesy, do not prophesy. They shall not prophesy to them. Nor shall they take shame.

⁷ “O you who are named of the House of Jacob! Is the Spirit of the LORD shortened? Are these His works? Are not My works good to him who walks uprightly?

⁸ “But those who were My people yesterday have risen up on the other side, as against an enemy. They strip the beautiful garment from those who pass by peacefully, as though they returned from the war.

⁹ “You have cast out the women of My people from their pleasant houses. You have continually taken away My Glory from their children.

¹⁰ “Arise and depart! For this is not your rest. Because it is polluted, it shall be destroyed with a severe destruction.

¹¹ “If a man walks in the spirit, and would lie falsely, saying, ‘I will prophesy to you of wine, and of strong drink,’ even he would be a ‘prophet’ of this people.

¹² “I will surely gather you wholly, O Jacob. I will surely gather the remnant of Israel. I will put them together as the sheep of Bozrah, as the flock in the midst of their fold, full of the noise of men.

¹³ “The breaker shall come up before them. They shall break out and pass by the gate and go out by it. And their king shall go before them. And the LORD shall be upon their heads.”

3 “And I said, ‘Hear now, O heads of Jacob, and you princes of the House of Israel. Should not you know judgment?’

² “They hate good and love evil. They strip their skin from them, and their flesh from their bones.

³ “And they also eat the flesh of My people, and strip off their skin from them. And they break their bones, and chop them in pieces, as if for the pot, and as flesh within the caldron.”

⁴ Then they shall cry to the LORD, but He will not hear them. He will hide His Face from them at that time, because they have done wickedly in their works.

⁵ Thus says the LORD: “Concerning the prophets who deceive My people, and bite them with their teeth, and cry, ‘Peace!’ But if a man puts nothing into their mouths, they prepare war against him.

⁶ “Therefore, night shall be to you for a vision, and darkness to you for a divination. And the Sun shall go down over the prophets. And the day shall be dark over them.

⁷ “Then shall the seers be ashamed, and the soothsayers confounded. Yea, they shall all cover their lips, for they have no answer from God.”

⁸ Yet indeed I am full of power by the Spirit of the LORD, and of judgment, and of strength, to declare to Jacob his transgression, and to Israel his sin.

⁹ Please hear this, you heads of the House of Jacob, and princes of the House of Israel. They abhor judgment and pervert all that is right.

¹⁰ They build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity.

¹¹ Their heads judge for rewards, and their priests teach for hire, and their prophets prophesy for money. Yet they will lean upon the LORD and say, “Is not the LORD among us? No evil can come upon us.”

¹² Therefore, for your sake, shall Zion be plowed as a field. And Jerusalem shall be a heap and the mountain of the house as the high places of the forest.

4 But in the last days it shall happen that the Mountain of the House of the LORD shall be prepared on the top of the mountains. And it shall be exalted above the hills. And people shall flow to it.

² Yea, many nations shall come and say, “Come and let us go up to the Mountain of the LORD, and to the House of the God of Jacob. And He will teach us His ways. And we will walk in His paths.” For the Law shall go forth from Zion. And the Word of the LORD from Jerusalem.

³ And He shall judge among many people and rebuke mighty, far away nations. And they shall break their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation shall not lift up a sword against nation. Nor shall they learn to fight anymore.

⁴ But every man shall sit under his vine, and under his fig tree. And no one shall make them afraid. For the Mouth of the LORD of Hosts has spoken it.

⁵ For all people will walk, each in the name of his god. And we will walk in the Name of the LORD our God, forever and ever.

⁶ “At the same time,” says the LORD, “I will gather she who halts, and I will gather she who is cast out, and she whom I have afflicted.

⁷ “And I will make her who limps a remnant, and her who was cast far off a mighty nation. And the LORD shall reign over them on Mount Zion, from now until forever.

⁸ “And you, O tower of the flock, the stronghold of the daughter Zion! To you it shall come. The former dominion kingdom shall come to the daughter Jerusalem.”

⁹ Now, why do you cry out with lamentation? Is there no king in you? Has your counselor perished? For sorrow has taken you, as a woman in labor.

¹⁰ Sorrow and mourn, O daughter Zion, like a woman in labor! For now, you shall go forth from the city and dwell in the field and shall go into Babel. There you shall be delivered. There the LORD shall redeem you from the hand of your enemies.

¹¹ Also now, many nations are gathered against you, saying, “Zion shall be condemned!” and “Our eye shall look upon Zion!”

¹² But they do not know the thoughts of the LORD. They do not understand His counsel. For He shall gather them as the sheaves in the barn.

¹³ “Arise and thresh, O daughter Zion! For I will make your horn iron. And I will make your hooves bronze. And you shall break many people in pieces. And I will consecrate their riches to the LORD, and their substance to the Ruler of the whole world.”

5 Now assemble your garrisons, O daughter of garrisons. He has laid siege against us. They shall strike the judge of Israel with a rod upon the cheek.

² “And you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, are small among the thousands of Judah. Yet out of you shall He come forth to Me Who shall be the Ruler in Israel, Whose goings forth have been from the beginning, from everlasting.”

³ Therefore, He will give them up until the time that she who shall bear has given birth. Then the remnant of their brethren shall return to the children of Israel.

⁴ And He shall stand and feed in the strength of the LORD, in the majesty of the Name of the LORD his God. And they shall abide. For now shall He be magnified to the ends of the world.

⁵ And He shall be our peace when Assyria shall come into our land. When He shall tread in our palaces, then shall we raise seven shepherds against him, and eight principal men.

⁶ And they shall destroy Assyria with the sword, and the land of Nimrod with their swords. Thus shall He deliver us from Assyria when He comes into our land, and when He shall tread within our borders.

⁷ And the remnant of Jacob shall be among many people, as a dew from the LORD, as the showers upon the grass that neither wait for man nor hope in the sons of Adam.

⁸ And the remnant of Jacob shall be among the Gentiles, in the midst of many people, as the lion among the beasts of the forest, as the lion whelp among the flocks of sheep, who when he goes through treads down and tears in pieces. And no one can deliver.

⁹ Your Hand shall be lifted up upon your adversaries, and all your enemies shall be cut off.

¹⁰ “And it shall happen at that time,” says the LORD, “that I will cut off your horses from your midst. And I will destroy your chariots.

¹¹ “And I will cut off the cities of your land and overthrow all your strongholds.

¹² “And I will cut off your sorceries from your hand. And you shall have no more soothsayers.

¹³ “I will also cut off your idols, and your images from your midst. And you shall no longer worship the work of your hands.

¹⁴ “And I will uproot your asherim from your midst. So will I destroy your enemies.

¹⁵ “And I will execute a vengeance in wrath and indignation upon the heathen which they have not heard.”

6 Listen now to what the LORD says: “Arise! Plead before the mountains! And let the hills hear your voice!”

² Hear, O mountains, the LORD’s quarrel, and you mighty foundations of the Earth! For the LORD has a quarrel against His people. And He will dispute with Israel.

³ “O My people! What have I done to you? Or in what have I grieved you? Testify against Me.

⁴ “Surely, I brought you up out of the land of Egypt and redeemed you from the house of servants. And I have sent Moses, Aaron, and Miriam before you.”

⁵ O My people! Remember now what Balak, king of Moab, had devised, and what Balaam, the son of Beor, answered him from Shittim to Gilgal, so that you may know the righteousness of the LORD.

⁶ With what shall I come before the LORD, and bow myself before the high God? Shall I come before Him with Burnt Offerings, with calves of a year old?

⁷ Will the LORD be pleased with thousands of rams, or with ten thousand rivers of oil? Shall I give my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?

⁸ He has shown you, O man, what is good and what the LORD requires of you: surely to do justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God.

⁹ The LORD’s voice cries to the city! And the man of wisdom shall see Your Name. “Hear the rod and Who has appointed it!

¹⁰ “Are the treasures of wickedness still in the house of the wicked, and the scant measure that is abominable?

¹¹ “Shall I justify the wicked balances, and the bag of deceitful weights?

¹² “For their rich men are full of cruelty. And their inhabitants have spoken lies. And their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.

¹³ “Therefore, I will also make you sick by striking you, by making you desolate because of your sins.

¹⁴ “You shall eat and not be satisfied. And your casting down shall be in the midst of you. And you shall take hold but shall not deliver. And that which you do deliver, I will give up to the sword.

¹⁵ “You shall sow, but not reap. You shall tread the olives, but you shall not anoint yourself with oil and sweet wine, and shall not drink wine.

¹⁶ “For the statutes of Omri are kept, and all the works of the House of Ahab. And you walk in their counsels, so that I should make you a desolation and your inhabitants a hissing. Therefore, you shall bear the reproach of My people.”

7 Woe is me, for I am as the summer gatherings, as the grapes of the vintage. There is no cluster to eat. My soul desired the first ripe fruits.

² The good man has perished from the Earth, and there is no one righteous among men. They all lie in wait for blood. Every man hunts his brother with a net.

³ To make good for the evil of both their hands, the prince asks and the judge judges for a reward. And the great man speaks out the corruption of his soul. So they weave it together.

⁴ The best of them is as a brier. And the most righteous of them is sharper than a thorn-hedge. The day of your watchmen and your visitation comes. Then shall be their confusion.

⁵ Do not trust in a friend, or put confidence in a counselor. Keep the doors of your mouth from she who lies in your bosom.

⁶ For the son reviles the father. The daughter rises up against her mother, the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. A man’s enemies are the men of his own house.

⁷ Therefore, I will look to the LORD. I will wait for God my Savior. My God will hear me.

⁸ Do not rejoice against me, O my enemy! Though I fall, I shall rise. When I shall sit in darkness, the LORD shall be a light to me.

⁹ I will bear the wrath of the LORD, because I have sinned against Him, until He pleads my case and executes judgment for me. He will bring me forth to the light. And I shall see His righteousness.

¹⁰ Then she who is my enemy shall look upon it. And shame shall cover her who said to me, “Where is the LORD your God?” My eyes shall behold her. Now she shall be trampled down as the mire of the streets.

¹¹ This is the day that your walls shall be built. This day shall drive the decree far away.

¹² Also at this time they shall come to you from Assyria and the strong cities, and from the strongholds to the river, and from sea to sea, and from mountain to mountain.

¹³ Nevertheless, the land shall be desolate because of those who dwell in it, for the fruits of their inventions.

¹⁴ Feed Your people with Your rod, the flock of Your heritage (who dwell solitarily in the forest) in the midst of Carmel. Let them feed in Bashan and Gilead, as in days of old.

¹⁵ “According to the days of your coming out of the land of Egypt, I will show to him marvelous things.”

¹⁶ The nations shall see and be confounded for all their power. They shall lay their hand upon their mouth. Their ears shall be deaf.

¹⁷ They shall lick the dust like a serpent. They shall move out of their holes like worms. They shall be afraid of the LORD our God, and shall fear because of You.

¹⁸ Who is a God like You, Who takes away iniquity and passes over the transgression of the remnant of His heritage! He does not retain His wrath forever, because mercy pleases Him.

¹⁹ He will turn again and have compassion upon us. He will subdue our iniquities and cast all their sins into the bottom of the sea.

²⁰ You will perform truth to Jacob, mercy to Abraham, as You have sworn to our fathers in days of old.

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, the LORD of anger. The LORD will take vengeance on His adversaries, and He reserves wrath for His enemies.

³ The LORD is slow to anger, but great in power, and will not surely acquit. 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 dries it. And He dries up all the rivers. Bashan is withered, and Carmel. And the flower of Lebanon is wilted.

⁵ The mountains tremble for Him, and the hills melt. And the Earth is burnt at His sight, yea the world and all who dwell in it.

⁶ Who can stand before His wrath? Or who can abide in the fierceness of His wrath? His wrath is poured out like fire, and the rocks are broken by Him.

⁷ The LORD is good, a stronghold in the day of trouble. And He knows those who trust in Him.

⁸ But passing over as with a flood, He will utterly destroy its place. And darkness shall pursue His enemies.

⁹ What do you imagine against the LORD? He will make an utter destruction. Affliction shall not rise up a second time.

¹⁰ For like tangled thorns, and like drunkards in their drunkenness, they shall be devoured as fully dried stubble.

¹¹ There comes one out of you who imagines evil against the LORD, a wicked counselor.

¹² Thus says the LORD: “Though they are quiet, and also many, yet thus shall they be cut off when he shall pass. Though I have afflicted you, I will afflict you no more.

¹³ “For now I will break his yoke from you and will burst your bonds asunder.

¹⁴ “And the LORD has given a Commandment concerning you that no more of your name be scattered. Out of the house of your gods I will cut off the carved image and the cast image. I will make it your grave for you, for you are vile.

¹⁵ “Behold the feet of him who declares and publishes peace upon the mountains. O Judah, keep your solemn Feasts, perform your vows! For the wicked shall no longer pass through you. He is utterly cut off.”

2 The destroyer has come before your face. Man the ramparts! Watch the road! Harden yourselves! Increase your strength mightily!

² For the LORD has turned away the glory of Jacob, as the glory of Israel. For the emptiers have emptied them out and marred their vine branches.

³ The shields of His mighty men are made red. The valiant men are in scarlet. The chariots are afire, flaming on the day of His preparation. And the fir trees shall tremble.

⁴ The chariots shall rage in the streets. They shall run to and fro on the highways. They shall seem like lamps. They shall shoot like lightning.

⁵ He shall remember His strong men. They shall stumble as they go. They shall hurry to its walls. And the defense shall be prepared.

⁶ The gates of the rivers shall be opened. And the palace shall melt.

⁷ And Huzzab shall be led away captive. And her maids shall lead, as with the voice of doves, striking upon their breasts.

⁸ Though Nineveh was of old like a pool of water, now they shall flee away. “Stand! Stand!” shall they cry. But no one shall look back.

⁹ Plunder the silver! Plunder the gold! For there is no end to the treasure and glory of all the pleasant vessels!

¹⁰ She is empty and void and laid waste. And the heart melts. And the knees strike together. And sorrow is in all loins. And the faces of them all gather heat.

¹¹ Where is the dwelling of the lions and the pasture of the lion’s whelps, where the lion and the lioness awakened, and the lion’s whelp, and no one made them afraid?

¹² The lion tore enough in pieces for his whelps, and worried for his lioness, and filled his holes with prey, and his dens with spoil.

¹³ “Behold, I come to you,” says the LORD of Hosts, “and I will burn her chariots in the smoke. And the sword shall devour your young lions. And I will cut off your spoil from the Earth. And the voice of your messengers shall no longer be heard.”

3 O bloody city! It is all full of lies and robbery. And its prey never departs:

² the noise of a whip and the noise of the moving of the wheels and the beating of the horses and the leaping of the chariots.

³ The horseman lifts up both the bright sword and the glittering spear. And a multitude is slain, and the dead bodies are many. There is no end of their corpses. They stumble over their corpses,

⁴ because of the multitude of the fornications of the beautiful harlot, who is a mistress of witchcraft and sells the people through her whoredom and the nations through her witchcrafts.

⁵ “Behold, I come upon you,” says the LORD of Hosts, “and will uncover your skirts upon your face, and will show the nations your filthiness, and the kingdoms your shame.

⁶ “And I will cast filth upon you, and make you vile, and will set you as a spectacle.

⁷ “And it shall happen at that time that all those who look upon you shall flee from you, and say, ‘Nineveh is destroyed! Who will have pity upon her?’ Where shall I seek comforters for you?”

⁸ Are you better than No, who was full of people, which lay in the rivers and had the waters all around it, whose ditch was the sea, and her wall from the sea?

⁹ Ethiopia and Egypt were her strength. And there was no end. Put and Lubim were her helpers.

¹⁰ Yet she was carried away and went into captivity. Also, her young children were dashed in pieces at the head of all the streets. And they cast lots for her noble men. And all her mighty men were bound in chains.

¹¹ Also, you shall be drunk. You shall hide yourself and shall seek help because of the enemy.

¹² All your strong cities shall be like fig trees with the first ripe figs. For if they are shaken, they fall into the mouth of the eater.

¹³ Behold, your people within you are women. The gates of your land shall be opened to your enemies. The fire shall devour your bars.

¹⁴ Draw water for the siege. Fortify your strongholds. Go into the clay and temper the mortar. Make strong bricks.

¹⁵ There shall the fire devour you. The sword shall cut you off. It shall eat you up like the locusts. You are multiplied like the locusts, multiplied like the swarming locusts.

¹⁶ You have multiplied your merchants above the stars of heaven. The locust plunders and flies away.

¹⁷ Your princes are as the swarming locusts, and your captains as the great grasshoppers which remain in the hedges in the cold time. When the Sun rises, they flee away. And the place where they are is not known.

¹⁸ Your shepherds sleep, O king of Assyria! Your strong men lie down. Your people are scattered upon the mountains. And no man gathers.

¹⁹ There is no healing of your wound. Your plague is grievous. All who hear of you shall clap their hands over you. For upon whom has not your malice passed continually?