A Translation of Calvin's Version
1856 by Calvin Translation Society

Nahum Chapter 1

Nah 1:1 The burden of Nineveh, —the book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite:
Nah 1:2 A God jealous, and an avenger is Jehovah; Avenger is Jehovah, and a retainer of wrath; Take vengeance does Jehovah on his enemies, And keep it for his adversaries:
Nah 1:3 Jehovah is slow to wrath, and great in power, And by clearing he will not clear: Jehovah! In the whirlwind and tempest is his way, And the cloud is the dust of his feet:
Nah 1:4 He chides the sea, and it becomes dry; And all the rivers he dried up; Languish do Bashan and Carmel, And the flower of Lebanon languishes:
Nah 1:5 Mountains tremble at him, and hills melt; And burn does the earth before his face, Yea, the world, and all who dwell in it.
Nah 1:6 Before his indignation who can stand? And who can bear the fierceness of his wrath? His fury is poured out like fire, And rocks dissolve before him.
Nah 1:7 Good is Jehovah for strength in the day of distress; And he knoweth them who hope in him.
Nah 1:8 But with an inundation, he, passing through, Will make a consummation in her place; And pursue shall darkness his enemies.
Nah 1:9 What do ye imagine against Jehovah? A consummation he makes! Not rise again shall affliction.
Nah 1:10 They who are like entangled thorns, And drunken as with their own drinking—Devoured shall they be as stubble fully dry.
Nah 1:11 From thee has gone forth a contriver of evil Against Jehovah, a wicked counselor.
Nah 1:12 Thus saith Jehovah, —Though they are secure, and though they are many, They shall yet be cut off, and he shall pass through: And through I have afflicted thee, I will afflict thee no more;
Nah 1:13 For now will I break off from thee his yoke, And his bonds will I burst asunder.
Nah 1:14 And a command respecting thee hath Jehovah given, —"Let none be sown hereafter of thy name;" From the house of thy gods will I cut off The graven and the molten image; I will make thy grave, for thou art execrable.
Nah 1:15 Behold on the mountains the feet of him Who announceth, who publisheth peace! Celebrate thou, Judah, thy solemnities, Perform thy vows; for pass through thee Shall the wicked one no more, —he is wholly cut off.