Nahum 1:2-8 - Half-Acrostic: Yahweh Takes Vengeance Against His Enemies
2 The LORD is a jealous God, and a taker of vengeance: yea, a taker of vengeance is the LORD, and wrathful. The LORD taketh vengeance of his enemies, and reserveth displeasure for his adversaries. 3 The LORD suffereth long, he is of great power, and so innocent that he leaveth no man faultless before him. The LORD goeth forth in tempest and stormy weather; the clouds are the dust of his feet. 4 When he reproveth the sea, he drieth it up, and turneth all the floods to dry land. Bashan is desolate, Carmel and the pleasure of Lebanon wasteth away. 5 The mountains tremble for him, the hills consume. At the sight of him the earth quaketh: yea, the whole world, and all that dwell therein. 6 Who may endure before his wrath? Or who is able to abide his grim displeasure? His anger taketh on like fire, and the hard rocks burst in sunder before him.
7 Full gracious is the LORD, and a stronghold in time of trouble. He knoweth them that put their trust in him: 8 when the flood runneth over, and destroyeth the place; and when the darkness followeth still upon his enemies.