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Nahum 1 :: Bible in Basic English (BBE)

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Unchecked Copy Box Nah 1:1

Unchecked Copy BoxNah 1:1 - The word about Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite.

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Unchecked Copy Box Nah 1:2

Unchecked Copy BoxNah 1:2 - The Lord is a God who takes care of his honour and gives punishment for wrong; the Lord gives punishment and is angry; the Lord sends punishment on those who are against him, being angry with his haters.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNah 1:3 - The Lord is slow to get angry and great in power, and will not let the sinner go without punishment: the way of the Lord is in the wind and the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNah 1:4 - He says sharp words to the sea and makes it dry, drying up all the rivers: Bashan is feeble, and Carmel, and the flower of Lebanon is without strength.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNah 1:5 - The mountains are shaking because of him, and the hills flowing away; the earth is falling to bits before him, the world and all who are in it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Nah 1:6

Unchecked Copy BoxNah 1:6 - Who may keep his place before his wrath? and who may undergo the heat of his passion? his wrath is let loose like fire and the rocks are broken open by him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNah 1:7 - The Lord is good, a strong place in the day of trouble; and he has knowledge of those who take him for their safe cover.

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Unchecked Copy Box Nah 1:8

Unchecked Copy BoxNah 1:8 - But like water overflowing he will take them away; he will put an end to those who come up against him, driving his haters into the dark.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNah 1:9 - What are you designing against the Lord? he will put an end to it: his haters will not come up again a second time.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNah 1:10 - For though they are like twisted thorns, and are overcome as with drink, they will come to destruction like stems of grass fully dry.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNah 1:11 - One has gone out from you who is designing evil against the Lord, whose purposes are of no value.

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Unchecked Copy Box Nah 1:12

Unchecked Copy BoxNah 1:12 - This is what the Lord has said: The days of my cause against you are ended; they are cut off and past. Though I have sent trouble on you, you will no longer be troubled.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNah 1:13 - And now I will let his yoke be broken off you, and your chains be parted.

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Unchecked Copy Box Nah 1:14

Unchecked Copy BoxNah 1:14 - The Lord has given an order about you, that no more of your name are to be planted: from the house of your gods I will have the pictured and metal images cut off; I will make your last resting-place a place of shame; for you are completely evil.

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Unchecked Copy Box Nah 1:15

Unchecked Copy BoxNah 1:15 - See on the mountains the feet of him who comes with good news, giving word of peace! Keep your feasts, O Judah, give effect to your oaths: for the good-for-nothing man will never again go through you; he is completely cut off.
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The Bible in Basic English was translated by Professor Samuel Henry Hooke (1874-1968)
This translation of the Bible is in the public domain.

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