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Translated from the Latin Vulgate
Diligently Compared with the Hebrew, Greek,and Other Editions in Divers Languages
THE OLD TESTAMENT
First Published by the English College at Douay
A.D. 1609 & 1610
and
THE NEW TESTAMENT
First Published by the English College at Rheims
A.D. 1582
With Annotations
The Whole Revised and Diligently Compared withthe Latin Vulgate by Bishop Richard ChallonerA.D. 1749-1752
NAHUM, whose name signifies A COMFORTER, was a native of Elcese, orElcesai, supposed to be a little town in Galilee. He prophesied, afterthe ten tribes were carried into captivity, and foretold the utterdestruction of Ninive, by the Babylonians and Medes: which happened inthe reign of JOSIAS.
Nahum Chapter 1
The majesty of God, his goodness to his people, and severity to hisenemies.
1:1. The burden of Ninive. The book of the vision of Nahum, theElcesite.
1:2. The Lord is a jealous God, and a revenger: the Lord is a revenger,and hath wrath: the Lord taketh vengeance on his adversaries, and he isangry with his enemies.
1:3. The Lord is patient, and great in power, and will not cleanse andacquit the guilty. The Lord's ways are in a tempest, and a whirlwind,and clouds are the dust of his feet.
1:4. He rebuketh the sea and drieth it up: and bringeth all the riversto be a desert. Basan languisheth and Carmel: and the flower of Libanusfadeth away.
1:5. The mountains tremble at him, and the hills are made desolate: andthe earth hath quaked at his presence, and the world, and all that dwelltherein.
1:6. Who can stand before the face of his indignation? and who shallresist in the fierceness of his anger? his indignation is poured outlike fire: and the rocks are melted by him.
1:7. The Lord is good, and giveth strength in the day of trouble: andknoweth them that hope in him.
1:8. But with a flood that passeth by, he will make an utter end of theplace thereof: and darkness shall pursue his enemies.
Of the place thereof… Viz., of Ninive.
1:9. What do ye devise against the Lord? he will make an utter end:there shall not rise a double affliction.
1:10. For as thorns embrace one another: so while they are feasting anddrinking together, they shall be consumed as stubble that is fully dry.
1:11. Out of thee shall come forth one that imagineth evil against theLord, contriving treachery in his mind.
Shall come forth one, etc… Some understand this of Sennacherib. But ashis attempt against the people seems to have been prior to the prophecyof Nahum, we may better understand it of Holofernes.
1:12. Thus saith the Lord: Though they were perfect: and many of themso, yet thus shall they be cut off, and he shall pass: I have afflictedthee, and I will afflict thee no more.
Though they were perfect, etc… That is, however strong or numeroustheir forces may be, they shall be cut off; and their prin