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# Nahum 1

Nahum 1 is chapter 1 of 3 in the Book of Nahum. Here are all 15 verses in the Catholic Public Domain Version, with the Latin of the Clementine Vulgate beside them.

> The majesty of God, his goodness to his people, and severity to his enemies.
>
> — Bp. Richard Challoner, chapter summary

## Nahum 1 (Catholic Public Domain Version)

1. The burden of Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite.
2. God is a rival, and the Lord is avenging. The Lord is avenging, and one who applies wrath. The Lord is avenging with his enemies, and he becomes angry with his adversaries.
3. The Lord is patient and great in strength, and those who are not clean, he makes innocent. The Lord is in a tempest, and his way is a whirlwind, and the clouds are dust at his feet.
4. He is the one who rebukes the sea, and who dries it up, and who leads all the rivers to the desert. Basan has been weakened, and also Carmel, and the flower of Lebanon has languished.
5. The mountains have trembled before him, and the hills have become desolate, and the earth has quaked before his face, both the world and all that dwells in it.
6. Who can stand firm before the face of his indignation? And who can continue against the fury of his wrath? His indignation has broken out like a fire, and the rocks have been dissolved before him.
7. The Lord is good, and a comforter in the day of tribulation, and he knows those who hope in him.
8. And in the flood that passes over, he brings to consummation the end of his place. And darkness shall pursue his adversaries.
9. What are you thinking up against the Lord? He will accomplish the consummation. There shall not rise up a double tribulation.
10. For just as thorns entwine one another, so also, while they are feasting and drinking together, they will be consumed like stubble that is completely dry.
11. Out of you will go forth one who thinks up evil against the Lord, dragging betrayals through his mind.
12. Thus says the Lord: If they had been perfect, and many of them so, yet still they would be pruned, and it will cross through them. I have afflicted you, and I shall afflict you no more.
13. And now I will shatter his rod from your back, and I will break open your bonds.
14. And the Lord will place a commandment over you; nothing more from your name will be sown. From the house of your God, I will order destroyed the graven image and the molten image. I will prepare your grave, because you are not honorable.
15. Behold, over the mountains, the feet of the Evangelizer and the Announcer of peace. Judah, celebrate your festivals and keep your vows. For Belial will never again pass through you; he has completely passed away.

## Nahum 1 in Latin (Clementine Vulgate, 1592)

1. Onus Ninive. Liber visionis Nahum Elcesæi.
2. Deus æmulator, et ulciscens Dominus: ulciscens Dominus, et habens furorem: ulciscens Dominus in hostes suos, et irascens ipse inimicis suis.
3. Dominus patiens, et magnus fortitudine, et mundans non faciet innocentem. Dominus in tempestate et turbine viæ ejus, et nebulæ pulvis pedum ejus.
4. Increpans mare, et exsiccans illud, et omnia flumina ad desertum deducens. Infirmatus est Basan et Carmelus, et flos Libani elanguit.
5. Montes commoti sunt ab eo, et colles desolati sunt: et contremuit terra a facie ejus, et orbis, et omnes habitantes in eo.
6. Ante faciem indignationis ejus quis stabit? et quis resistet in ira furoris ejus? Indignatio ejus effusa est ut ignis, et petræ dissolutæ sunt ab eo.
7. Bonus Dominus, et confortans in die tribulationis, et sciens sperantes in se.
8. Et in diluvio prætereunte consummationem faciet loci ejus, et inimicos ejus persequentur tenebræ.
9. Quid cogitatis contra Dominum? Consummationem ipse faciet: non consurget duplex tribulatio,
10. quia sicut spinæ se invicem complectuntur, sic convivium eorum pariter potantium; consumentur quasi stipula ariditate plena.
11. Ex te exibit cogitans contra Dominum malitiam, mente pertractans prævaricationem.
12. Hæc dicit Dominus: Si perfecti fuerint, et ita plures, sic quoque attondentur, et pertransibit: afflixi te, et non affligam te ultra.
13. Et nunc conteram virgam ejus de dorso tuo, et vincula tua disrumpam.
14. Et præcipiet super te Dominus; non seminabitur ex nomine tuo amplius: de domo Dei tui interficiam sculptile, et conflatile; ponam sepulchrum tuum, quia inhonoratus es.
15. Ecce super montes pedes evangelizantis, et annuntiantis pacem. Celebra, Juda, festivitates tuas, et redde vota tua, quia non adjiciet ultra ut pertranseat in te Belial: universus interiit.

## Bishop Challoner's notes

Bp. Richard Challoner, notes on the Douay-Rheims (1750); they comment on its older wording.
- Verse 8: Viz., of Ninive.
- Verse 11: Some understand this of Sennacherib. But as his attempt against the people seems to have been prior to the prophecy of Nahum, we may better understand it of Holofernes.
- Verse 12: That is, however strong or numerous their forces may be, they shall be cut off; and their prince or leader shall pass away and disappear.
- Verse 14: That is, a decree, concerning thee, O king of Ninive, thy seed shall fail, etc.
- Verse 15: “Belial” … The wicked one, viz., the Assyrian.

Source: Catholic Public Domain Version (Ronald L. Conte Jr., 2009), public domain; Latin: Clementine Vulgate (1592).