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Nahum 1:8

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

But he will completely destroy Nineveh with an overwhelming flood, and he will chase his enemies into darkness.

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‘ “So this is what the Lord God says: I will release a whirlwind in my wrath. Torrential rain will come in my anger, and hailstones will fall in destructive fury.


And I will make justice the measuring line and righteousness the mason’s level.’ Hail will sweep away the false refuge, and water will flood your hiding place.


They will look towards the earth  and see only distress, darkness, and the gloom of affliction, and they will be driven into thick darkness.


He will also stretch out his hand against the north and destroy Assyria; he will make Nineveh a desolate ruin, dry as the desert.


Because of this, won’t the land quake and all who dwell in it mourn? All of it will rise like the Nile; it will surge and then subside like the Nile in Egypt.


But the sons of the kingdom will be thrown into the outer darkness where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’


The rain fell, the rivers rose, the winds blew and pounded that house, and it collapsed. It collapsed with a great crash.’


Nineveh has been like a pool of water from her first days, but they are fleeing. ‘Stop! Stop! ’ they cry, but no one turns back.


The pronouncement  concerning Nineveh.  The book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite.


‘At the time of the end, the king of the South will engage him in battle, but the king of the North will storm against him  with chariots, horsemen, and many ships. He will invade countries and sweep through them like a flood.


A flood of forces will be swept away before him; they will be broken, as well as the covenant prince.


After those sixty-two weeks the Anointed One will be cut off and will have nothing. The people of the coming ruler will destroy the city  and the sanctuary. The  end will come with a flood, and until the end there will be   war; desolations are decreed.


Give glory to the  Lord your God before he brings darkness, before your feet stumble on the mountains at dusk. You wait for light, but he brings darkest gloom and makes total darkness.


But the way of the wicked is like the darkest gloom; they don’t know what makes them stumble.


Terrors  are turned loose against me; they chase my dignity away like the wind, and my prosperity has passed by like a cloud.


‘His sons will mobilise for war and assemble a large number of armed forces. They will advance, sweeping through like a flood,  , and will again wage war as far as his fortress.


Pour out your raging anger; look on every proud person and humiliate him.


Look, the day  of the  Lord is coming – cruel, with fury and burning anger – to make the earth a desolation and to destroy its sinners.


Indeed, the stars of the sky and its constellations will not give their light. The sun will be dark when it rises, and the moon will not shine.


Look, the Lord has a strong and mighty one   – like a devastating hailstorm, like a storm with strong flooding water. He will bring it across the land with his hand.


Then say, “In the same way, Babylon will sink and never rise again because of the disaster I am bringing on her. They will grow weary.” ’ The words of Jeremiah end here.


He guards the steps  of his faithful ones, but the wicked perish in darkness, for a person does not prevail by his own strength.


Your covenant with Death will be dissolved, and your agreement with Sheol will not last. When the overwhelming catastrophe passes through, you will be trampled.





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