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Nahum","Category: History - Ancient","Category: Religion/Spirituality"],"text":"This eBook was produced by David Widger\nfrom etext #1581 prepared by Dennis McCarthy, Atlanta, Georgia\nand Tad Book, student, Pontifical North American College, Rome.\n\n\n\n\n\nTHE HOLY BIBLE\n\n\n\n\nTranslated from the Latin Vulgate\n\n\nDiligently Compared with the Hebrew, Greek,\nand Other Editions in Divers Languages\n\n\nTHE OLD TESTAMENT\nFirst Published by the English College at Douay\nA.D. 1609 & 1610\n\nand\n\nTHE NEW TESTAMENT\nFirst Published by the English College at Rheims\nA.D. 1582\n\n\nWith Annotations\n\n\nThe Whole Revised and Diligently Compared with\nthe Latin Vulgate by Bishop Richard Challoner\nA.D. 1749-1752\n\n\n\n\n\nTHE PROPHECY OF NAHUM\n\nNAHUM, whose name signifies A COMFORTER, was a native of Elcese, or\nElcesai, supposed to be a little town in Galilee. He prophesied, after\nthe ten tribes were carried into captivity, and foretold the utter\ndestruction of Ninive, by the Babylonians and Medes: which happened in\nthe reign of JOSIAS.\n\n\nNahum Chapter 1\n\nThe majesty of God, his goodness to his people, and severity to his\nenemies.\n\n1:1. The burden of Ninive. The book of the vision of Nahum, the\nElcesite.\n\n1:2. The Lord is a jealous God, and a revenger: the Lord is a revenger,\nand hath wrath: the Lord taketh vengeance on his adversaries, and he is\nangry with his enemies.\n\n1:3. The Lord is patient, and great in power, and will not cleanse and\nacquit the guilty. The Lord's ways are in a tempest, and a whirlwind,\nand clouds are the dust of his feet.\n\n1:4. He rebuketh the sea and drieth it up: and bringeth all the rivers\nto be a desert. Basan languisheth and Carmel: and the flower of Libanus\nfadeth away.\n\n1:5. The mountains tremble at him, and the hills are made desolate: and\nthe earth hath quaked at his presence, and the world, and all that dwell\ntherein.\n\n1:6. Who can stand before the face of his indignation? and who shall\nresist in the fierceness of his anger? his indignation is poured out\nlike fire: and the rocks are melted by him.\n\n1:7. The Lord is good, and giveth strength in the day of trouble: and\nknoweth them that hope in him.\n\n1:8. But with a flood that passeth by, he will make an utter end of the\nplace thereof: and darkness shall pursue his enemies.\n\nOf the place thereof... Viz., of Ninive.\n\n1:9. What do ye devise against the Lord? he will make an utter end:\nthere shall not rise a double affliction.\n\n1:10. For as thorns embrace one another: so while they are feasting and\ndrinking together, they shall be consumed as stubble that is fully dry.\n\n1:11. Out of thee shall come forth one that imagineth evil against the\nLord, contriving treachery in his mind.\n\nShall come forth one, etc... Some understand this of Sennacherib. But as\nhis attempt against the people seems to have been prior to the prophecy\nof Nahum, we may better understand it of Holofernes.\n\n1:12. Thus saith the Lord: Though they were perfect: and many of them\nso, yet thus shall they be cut off, and he shall pass: I have afflicted\nthee, and I will afflict thee no more.\n\nThough they were perfect, etc... That is, however strong or numerous\ntheir forces may be, they shall be cut off; and their prince or leader\nshall pass away and disappear.\n\n1:13. And now I will break in pieces his rod with which he struck thy\nback, and I will burst thy bonds asunder.\n\n1:14. And the Lord will give a commandment concerning thee, that no more\nof thy name shall be sown: I will destroy the graven and molten thing\nout of the house of thy God, I will make it thy grave, for thou art\ndisgraced.\n\nWill give a commandment... That is, a decree, concerning thee, O king of\nNinive, thy seed shall fail, etc.\n\n1:15. Behold upon the mountains the feet of him that bringeth good\ntidings, and that preacheth peace: O Juda, keep thy festivals, and pay\nthy vows: for Belial shall no more pass through thee again, he is\nutterly cut off.\n\nBelial... The wicked one, viz., the Assyrian.\n\nNahum Chapter 2\n\nGod sends his armies against Ninive to destroy it.\n\n2:1. He is come up that shall destroy before thy face, that shall keep\nthe siege: watch the way, fortify thy loins, strengthen thy power\nexceedingly.\n\n2:2. For the Lord hath rendered the pride of Jacob, as the pride of\nIsrael: because the spoilers have laid them waste, and have marred their\nvine branches.\n\nHath rendered the pride of Jacob, etc... He hath punished Jacob for his\npride; and therefore Ninive must not expect to escape. Or else,\nrendering the pride of Jacob means rewarding, that is, punishing Ninive\nfor the pride they exercised against Jacob.\n\n2:3. The shield of his mighty men is like fire, the men of the army are\nclad in scarlet, the reins of the chariot are flaming in the day of his\npreparation, and the drivers are stupified.\n\nOf his mighty men, etc... He speaks of the Chaldeans and Medes sent to\ndestroy Ninive.-Ibid. Stupefied... consopiti. That is, they drive on\nfuriously like men intoxicated with wine.\n\n2:4. They are in confusion in the ways, the chariots jostle one against\nanother in the streets: their looks are like torches, like lightning\nrunning to and fro.\n\n2:5. He will muster up his valiant men, they shall stumble in their\nmarch: they shall quickly get upon the walls thereof: and a covering\nshall be prepared.\n\nStumble in their march... By running hastily on.\n\n2:6. The gates of the rivers are opened, and the temple is thrown down\nto the ground.\n\n2:7. And the soldier is led away captive: and her bondwomen were led\naway mourning as doves, murmuring in their hearts.\n\n2:8. And as for Ninive, her waters are like a great pool: but the men\nflee away. They cry: Stand, stand, but there is none that will return\nback.\n\n2:9. Take ye the spoil of the silver, take the spoil of the gold: for\nthere is no end of the riches of all the precious furniture.\n\n2:10. She is destroyed, and rent, and torn: the heart melteth, and the\nknees fail, and all the loins lose their strength: and the faces of them\nall are as the blackness of a kettle.\n\n2:11. Where is now the dwelling of the lions, and the feeding place of\nthe young lions, to which the lion went, to enter in thither, the young\nlion, and there was none to make them afraid?\n\n2:12. The lion caught enough for his whelps, and killed for his\nlionesses: and he filled his holes with prey, and his den with rapine.\n\n2:13. Behold I come against thee, saith the Lord of hosts, and I will\nburn thy chariots even to smoke, and the sword shall devour thy young\nlions: and I will cut off thy prey out of the land, and the voice of thy\nmessengers shall be heard no more.\n\nNahum Chapter 3\n\nThe miserable destruction of Ninive.\n\n3:1. Woe to thee, 0 city of blood, all full of lies and violence: rapine\nshall not depart from thee.\n\n3:2. The noise of the whip, and the noise of the rattling of the wheels,\nand of the neighing horse; and of the running chariot, and of the\nhorsemen coming up,\n\n3:3. And of the shining sword, and of the glittering spear, and of a\nmultitude slain, and of a grievous destruction: and there is no end of\ncarcasses, and they shall fall down on their dead bodies.\n\n3:4. Because of the multitude of the fornications of the harlot that was\nbeautiful and agreeable, and that made use of witchcraft, that sold\nnations through her fornications, and families through her witchcrafts.\n\n3:5. Behold I come against thee, saith the Lord of hosts: and I will\ndiscover thy shame to thy face, and will shew thy nakedness to the\nnations, and thy shame to kingdoms.\n\n3:6. And I will cast abominations upon thee, and will disgrace thee, and\nwill make an example of thee.\n\n3:7. And it shall come to pass that every one that shall see thee, shall\nflee from thee, and shall say: Ninive is laid waste: who shall bemoan\nthee? whence shall I seek a comforter for thee?\n\n3:8. Art thou better than the populous Alexandria, that dwelleth among\nthe rivers? waters are round about it: the sea is its riches: the waters\nare its walls.\n\nPopulous Alexandria... No-Ammon. A populous city of Egypt destroyed by\nthe Chaldeans, and afterwards rebuilt by Alexander, and called\nAlexandria. Others suppose No-Ammon to be the same as Diospolis.\n\n3:9. Ethiopia and Egypt were the strength thereof, and there is no end:\nAfrica and the Libyans were thy helpers.\n\n3:10. Yet she also was removed and carried into cap-tivity: her young\nchildren were dashed in pieces at the top of every street, and they cast\nlots upon her nobles, and all her great men were bound in fetters.\n\n3:11. Therefore thou also shalt be made drunk, and shalt be despised:\nand thou shalt seek help from the enemies.\n\n3:12. All thy strong holds shall be like fig trees with their green\nfigs: if they be shaken, they shall fall into the mouth of the eater.\n\n3:13. Behold thy people in the midst of thee are women: the gates of thy\nland shall be set wide open to thy enemies, the fire shall devour thy\nbars.\n\n3:14. Draw thee water for the siege, build up thy bulwarks: go into the\nclay, and tread, work it and make brick.\n\n3:15. There shall the fire devour thee: thou shalt perish by the sword,\nit shall devour thee like the bruchus: assemble together like the\nbruchus, make thyself many like the locust.\n\n3:16. Thou hast multiplied thy merchandises above the stars of heaven:\nthe bruchus hath spread himself and flown away.\n\n3:17. Thy guards are like the locusts: and thy little ones like the\nlocusts of locusts which swarm on the hedges in the day of cold: the sun\narose, and they flew away, and their place was not known where they\nwere.\n\nLocusts of locusts... The young locusts.\n\n3:18. Thy shepherds have slumbered, O king of Assyria, thy princes shall\nbe buried: thy people are hid in the mountains, and there is none to\ngather them.\n\n3:19. Thy destruction is not hidden, thy wound is grievous: all that\nhave heard the fame of thee, have clapped their hands over thee: for\nupon whom hath not thy wickedness passed continually?","title":"The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 39: Nahum: The Challoner Revision","tradition":"scripture-revelation","translated_text":null,"word_count":1755}