From 9a39da15012067fb7cc2966d219942d1f409ac7b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Patrick Kingston Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2026 23:43:14 -0500 Subject: Start work on encoding bible - Get bible text - Write code to generate huffman encoding --- bible/base_files/engBBE_035_NAM_02_read.txt | 15 +++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+) create mode 100644 bible/base_files/engBBE_035_NAM_02_read.txt (limited to 'bible/base_files/engBBE_035_NAM_02_read.txt') diff --git a/bible/base_files/engBBE_035_NAM_02_read.txt b/bible/base_files/engBBE_035_NAM_02_read.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b07a5bf --- /dev/null +++ b/bible/base_files/engBBE_035_NAM_02_read.txt @@ -0,0 +1,15 @@ +Nahum. +Chapter 2. +A crusher has come up before your face: keep a good look-out, let the way be watched, make yourself strong, let your power be greatly increased. +For the Lord will make good the vine of Jacob, as well as the vine of Israel: for the wasters have made them waste and sent destruction on the branches of their vine. +The body-covers of his fighting men have been made red, the men of war are clothed in bright red: the war-carriages are like flames of fire in the day when he gets ready, the horses are shaking. +The war-carriages are rushing through the streets, pushing against one another in the wide ways, looking like burning lights, running like thunder-flames. +He takes the record of his great men: they go falling on their way; they go quickly to the wall, the cover is made ready. +The river doorways are forced open, and the king's house is flowing away. +And the queen is uncovered, she is taken away and her servant-girls are weeping like the sound of doves, hammering on their breasts. +But Nineveh is like a pool of water whose waters are flowing away; Keep your place, they say; but no one is turning back. +Take silver, take gold; for there is no end to the store; take for yourselves a weight of things to be desired. +Everything has been taken from her, all is gone, she has nothing more: the heart is turned to water, the knees are shaking, all are twisted in pain, and colour has gone from all faces. +Where is the lions' hole, the place where the young lions got their food, where the lion and the she-lion were walking with their young, without cause for fear? +Food enough for his young and for his she-lions was pulled down by the lion; his hole was full of flesh and his resting-place stored with meat. +See, I am against you, says the Lord of armies, and I will have your war-carriages burned in the smoke, and your young lions will be food for the sword: you will no longer get your food by force on the earth, and the voice of your she-lions will be stopped for ever. -- cgit v1.2.3