Nineveh

From that land, Assur came forth, and he built Nineveh, and the streets of the city, and Calah,

and also Resen, between Nineveh and Calah. This is a great city.

And Sennacherib, the king of the Assyrians, returned and dwelled in Nineveh.

And Sennacherib, the king of the Assyrians, departed and went away. And he returned and lived at Nineveh.

Rise and go to Nineveh, the great city, and preach in it. For its malice has ascended before my eyes.

Rise, and go to Nineveh, the great city. And preach in it the preaching that I say to you.

And Jonah rose, and he went to Nineveh in accordance with the word of the Lord. And Nineveh was a great city of three days’ journey.

And Jonah began to enter into the city one day’s journey. And he cried out and said, “Forty days more and Nineveh shall be destroyed.”

And the men of Nineveh believed in God. And they proclaimed a fast, and they put on sackcloth, from the greatest all the way to the least.

And word reached the king of Nineveh. And he rose from his throne, and he threw off his robe from himself and was clothed in sackcloth, and he sat in ashes.

And he cried out and spoke: “In Nineveh, from the mouth of the king and of his princes, let it be said: Men and beasts and oxen and sheep may not taste anything. Neither shall they feed or drink water.

And shall I not spare Nineveh, the great city, in which there are more than one hundred and twenty thousand men, who do not know the difference between their right and their left, and many beasts?”

The burden of Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite.

And in the flood that passes over, he brings to consummation the end of his place. And darkness shall pursue his adversaries.

Out of you will go forth one who thinks up evil against the Lord, dragging betrayals through his mind.

And the Lord will place a commandment over you; nothing more from your name will be sown. From the house of your God, I will order destroyed the graven image and the molten image. I will prepare your grave, because you are not honorable.

He ascends, who would scatter before your eyes, who would maintain the blockade. Contemplate the way, fortify your back, reinforce virtue greatly.

He will call to mind his strong ones; they will destroy along their journey. They will quickly ascend its walls, and a shelter will be prepared.

And the foot soldier has been led away captive, and her handmaids were driven away, mourning like doves, murmuring in their hearts.

And Nineveh, her waters are like a fish pond. Yet truly, they have fled away: “Stand, stand!” But there is no one who will turn back.

Despoil the silver, despoil the gold. And there is no end to all the riches of desirable equipment.

Where is the dwelling place of the lions, and the feeding ground of the young lions, to which the lion went, so as to open a way for the young lion, and so that there would be none to make them afraid?

Woe to the city of blood, filled with all manner of lies and violence. Crime shall not depart from you:

Because of the multitude of fornications of the kept woman, beautiful and pleasing and practicing evil deeds, who sold nations by her fornications, and families by her evil doing:

And this shall be: everyone who sees you, will recoil from you, and he will say: “Nineveh has been devastated.” Who will shake his head over you? Where might I seek consolation for you?

Therefore, you also will become inebriated, and you will be despised, and you will seek help from the opposition.

And he will extend his hand over the North, and he will destroy Assur. And he will set the Beautiful in the wilderness, and in an impassable place, and like a desert.

The men of Nineveh shall arise in judgment with this generation, and they shall condemn it. For, at the preaching of Jonah, they repented. And behold, there is a greater than Jonah here.

For just as Jonah was a sign to the Ninevites, so also will the Son of man be to this generation.

The men of Nineveh will rise up, at the judgment, with this generation, and they will condemn it. For at the preaching of Jonah, they repented. And behold, more than Jonah is here.