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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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