Nahum נַחוּם

Nahum (Nachum) the Elkoshite bears the burden of Nineveh — the same city whose repentance in Jonah's day was accepted, now, a century and more later, ripe for the sentence its returned violence has earned. The opening chapter unveils the Judge: Hashem is long-suffering and great in power, His way in the whirlwind and in the storm, a stronghold in the day of trouble to them that take refuge in Him. Then the vision descends on the bloody city itself: the gates of the rivers opened, the palace dissolved, chariots rushing madly in the broadways, the endless heaps of corpses — until the final taunt: 'Are you better than No-amon?' All that hear the report of her fall clap their hands; upon whom has not her wickedness passed continually? For Judah, the fall of the oppressor is good tidings upon the mountains. This volume presents the complete Hebrew text with English translation, a word-by-word interlinear layer with transliteration, roots, and gematria, and the classic commentaries of Rashi, Ibn Ezra, Radak, Metzudat David, Metzudat Zion, Malbim, and Abarbanel, newly translated into English.