1. The burden of Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite.
2. A jealous and avenging ·God is Jehovah: an avenger is Jehovah, and full of fury: Jehovah taketh vengeance on his adversaries, and he reserveth wrath for his enemies.
3. Jehovah is slow to anger, and great in power, and doth not at all clear the guilty: Jehovah, --his way is in the whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet.
4. He rebuketh the sea, and maketh it dry, and drieth up all the rivers: Bashan languisheth, and Carmel, and the flower of Lebanon languisheth.
5. The mountains quake before him, and the hills melt, and the earth is upheaved at his presence, and the world, and all that dwell therein.