Nahum 1:9-13 Catholic Public Domain Version (CPDV)

9. What are you thinking up against the Lord? He will accomplish the consummation. There shall not rise up a double tribulation.

10. For just as thorns entwine one another, so also, while they are feasting and drinking together, they will be consumed like stubble that is completely dry.

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

12. Thus says the Lord: If they had been perfect, and many of them so, yet still they would be pruned, and it will cross through them. I have afflicted you, and I shall afflict you no more.

13. And now I will shatter his rod from your back, and I will break open your bonds.

Nahum 1