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¶ The burden of Nineueh. The book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite.

The LORD is slow to anger, and great in power, and will not at all acquit the wicked: the LORD hath his way in the whirlewind, and in the storme, and the clouds are the dust of his feete.

1611 marginal noteExo.34.7

He rebuketh the sea, and maketh it drie, and drieth vp all the riuers: Bashan languisheth, and Carmel, and the floure of Lebanon languisheth.

Who can stand before his indignation? and who can abide in the fiercenesse of his anger? his furie is powred out like fire, and the rocks are throwen downe by him.

1611 marginal noteHeb. stand vp.

The LORD is good, a strong hold in the day of trouble, & he knoweth them that trust in him.

1611 marginal noteOr, strength

But with an ouer-running flood he will make an vtter ende of the place thereof, and darkenesse shall pursue his enemies.

There is one come out of thee, that imagineth euill against the LORD: a wicked counseller.

1611 marginal noteHebr. a counseller of Belial.

And the LORD hath giuen a commandement concerning thee, that no more of thy name be sowen: out of the house of thy gods will I cut off the grauen image, and the molten image, I wil make thy graue, for thou art vile.

Behold vpon the mountaines the feete of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace. O Iudah keepe thy solemne feasts, performe thy vowes: for the wicked shall no more passe through thee, he is vtterly cut off.

1611 marginal noteHeb. feast.

1611 marginal noteHeb. Belial.

1611 marginal noteIsa.52.7 rom.10.15.

For the LORD hath turned away the excellencie of Iacob, as the excellencie of Israel: for the emptiers haue emptied them out, and marred their vine branches.

1611 marginal noteOr, the pride of Iacob and the pride of Israel.

1611 marginal noteIsa.10.12.