Revised Literal Translation

Nahum 1:8-14

8But with an overrunning flood he will make an utter end of the place thereof, and darkness shall pursue his enemies.

9What do ye imagine against Yhwh? he will make an utter end: affliction shall not rise up the second time.

10For while they be folden together as thorns, and while they are drunken as drunkards, they shall be devoured as stubble fully dry.

11There is one come out of thee, that imagineth evil against Yhwh, a wicked counsellor.1

12Thus saith Yhwh; Though they be quiet, and likewise many, yet thus shall they be cut down, when he shall pass through. Though I have afflicted thee, I will afflict thee no more.2 3

13For now will I break his yoke from off thee, and will burst thy bonds in sunder.

14And Yhwh hath given a commandment concerning thee, that no more of thy name be sown: out of the house of thy gods will I cut off the graven image and the molten image: I will make thy grave; for thou art vile.

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Notes

1. Nahum 1:11 a wicked…: Heb. a counsellor of Belial. ↩
2. Nahum 1:12 Though…: or, If they would have been at peace, so should they have been many, and so should they have been shorn, and he should have passed away. ↩
3. Nahum 1:12 cut down: Heb. shorn. ↩

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