Bible Reading for July 31   
      
   Nahum 1   
   [1] The burden of Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite. [2]   
   God is jealous, and the LORD revengeth; the LORD revengeth, and is furious;   
   the LORD will take vengeance on his adversaries, and he reserveth wrath for   
   his enemies.   
   [3] 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 whirlwind and in the storm, and the   
   clouds are the dust of his feet.   
   [4] He rebuketh the sea, and maketh it dry, and drieth up all the rivers:   
   Bashan languisheth, and Carmel, and the flower of Lebanon languisheth. [5] The   
   mountains quake at him, and the hills melt, and the earth is burned at his   
   presence, yea, the world, and all that dwell therein. [6] Who can stand before   
   his indignation? and who can abide in the fierceness of his anger? his fury is   
   poured out like fire, and the rocks are thrown down by him.   
   [7] The LORD is good, a strong hold in the day of trouble; and he knoweth them   
   that trust in him.   
   [8] But with an overrunning flood he will make an utter end of the place   
   thereof, and darkness shall pursue his enemies. [9] What do ye imagine against   
   the LORD? he will make an utter end: affliction shall not rise up the second   
   time.   
   [10] For while they be folden together as thorns, and while they are drunken   
   as drunkards, they shall be devoured as stubble fully dry. [11] There is one   
   come out of thee, that imagineth evil against the LORD, a wicked counseller.   
   [12] Thus saith the LORD: 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.   
   [13] For now will I break his yoke from off thee, and will burst thy bonds in   
   sunder.   
   [14] And the LORD 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. [15] Behold   
   upon the mountains the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth   
   peace! O Judah, keep thy solemn feasts, perform thy vows: for the wicked shall   
   no more pass through thee; he is utterly cut off.   
      
   Nahum 2   
   [1] He that dasheth in pieces is come up before thy face: keep the munition,   
   watch the way, make thy loins strong, fortify thy power mightily. [2] For the   
   LORD hath turned away the excellency of Jacob, as the excellency of Israel:   
   for the emptiers have emptied them out, and marred their vine branches. [3]   
   The shield of his mighty men is made red, the valiant men are in scarlet: the   
   chariots shall be with flaming torches in the day of his preparation, and the   
   fir trees shall be terribly shaken. [4] The chariots shall rage in the   
   streets, they shall justle one against another in the broad ways: they shall   
   seem like torches, they shall run like the lightnings.   
   [5] He shall recount his worthies: they shall stumble in their walk; they   
   shall make hast to the wall thereof, and the defence shall be prepared. [6]   
   The gates of the rivers shall be opened, and the palace shall be dissolved.   
   [7] And Huzzab shall be led away captive, she shall be brought up, and her   
   maids shall lead her as with the voice of doves, tabering upon their breasts.   
   [8] But Nineveh is of old like a pool of water: yet they shall flee away.   
   Stand, stand, shall they cry; but none shall look back. [9] Take ye the spoil   
   of silver, take the spoil of gold: for there is none end of the store and   
   glory out of all the pleasant furniture. [10] She is empty, and void, and   
   waste: and the heart melteth, and the knees smite together, and much pain is   
   in all loins, and the faces of them all gather blackness.   
   [11] Where is the dwelling of the lions, and the feedingplace of the young   
   lions, where the lion, even the old lion, walked, and the lion's whelp, and   
   none made them afraid?   
   [12] The lion did tear in pieces enough for his whelps, and strangled for his   
   lionesses, and filled his holes with prey, and his dens with ravin. [13]   
   Behold, I am against thee, saith the LORD of hosts, and I will burn her   
   chariots in the smoke, and the sword shall devour thy young lions: and I will   
   cut off thy prey from the earth, and the voice of thy messengers shall no more   
   be heard.   
      
   Nahum 3   
   [1] Woe to the bloody city! it is all full of lies and robbery; the prey   
   departeth not;   
   [2] The noise of a whip, and the noise of the rattling of the wheels, and of   
   the pransing horses, and of the jumping chariots. [3] The horseman lifteth up   
   both the bright sword and the glittering spear: and there is a multitude of   
   slain, and a great number of carcases; and there is none end of their corpses;   
   they stumble upon their corpses: [4] Because of the multitude of the whoredoms   
   of the wellfavoured harlot, the mistress of witchcrafts, that selleth nations   
   through her whoredoms, and families through her witchcrafts.   
   [5] Behold, I am against thee, saith the LORD of hosts; and I will discover   
   thy skirts upon thy face, and I will shew the nations thy nakedness, and the   
   kingdoms thy shame.   
   [6] And I will cast abominable filth upon thee, and make thee vile, and will   
   set thee as a gazingstock.   
   [7] And it shall come to pass, that all they that look upon thee shall flee   
   from thee, and say, Nineveh is laid waste: who will bemoan her? whence shall I   
   seek comforters for thee?   
   [8] Art thou better than populous No, that was situate among the rivers, that   
   had the waters round about it, whose rampart was the sea, and her wall was   
   from the sea?   
   [9] Ethiopia and Egypt were her strength, and it was infinite; Put and Lubim   
   were thy helpers.   
   [10] Yet was she carried away, she went into captivity: her young children   
   also were dashed in pieces at the top of all the streets: and they cast lots   
   for her honourable men, and all her great men were bound in chains. [11] Thou   
   also shalt be drunken: thou shalt be hid, thou also shalt seek strength   
   because of the enemy.   
   [12] All thy strong holds shall be like fig trees with the firstripe figs: if   
   they be shaken, they shall even fall into the mouth of the eater. [13] Behold,   
   thy people in the midst of thee are women: the gates of thy land shall be set   
   wide open unto thine enemies: the fire shall devour thy bars. [14] Draw thee   
   waters for the siege, fortify thy strong holds: go into clay, and tread the   
   morter, make strong the brickkiln. [15] There shall the fire devour thee; the   
   sword shall cut thee off, it shall eat thee up like the cankerworm: make   
   thyself many as the cankerworm, make thyself many as the locusts.   
   [16] Thou hast multiplied thy merchants above the stars of heaven: the   
   cankerworm spoileth, and flieth away. [17] Thy crowned are as the locusts, and   
   thy captains as the great grasshoppers, which camp in the hedges in the cold   
   day, but when the sun ariseth they flee away, and their place is not known   
   where they are. [18] Thy shepherds slumber, O king of Assyria: thy nobles   
   shall dwell in the dust: thy people is scattered upon the mountains, and no   
   man gathereth them. [19] There is no healing of thy bruise; thy wound is   
   grievous: all that hear the bruit of thee shall clap the hands over thee: for   
   upon whom hath not thy wickedness passed continually?   
      
      
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