Nahum 2:8 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

⁸ Nineveh has been like a pool of water from her first days, but they are fleeing. ‘Stop! Stop! ’ they cry, but no one turns back.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁸ But Nineveh is of old like a pool of water: yet they shall flee away. Stand, stand, shall they cry; but none shall look back.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁸ And Nineveh, like a standing pool are her waters and [her inhabitants] are fleeing away! Stand! Stand [firm! a few cry], but no one looks back or causes them to return.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁸ But Nineveh hath been from of old like a pool of water: yet they flee away. Stand, stand, they cry; but none looketh back.

Common English Bible

⁸ Nineveh has been like a pool of water. Such are its waters, and others are fleeing. “Stop, stop!”—but no one can turn them back.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁸ 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.

Nahum 2:8 Cross References

Genesis 10:11

From that land he went to Assyria  and built Nineveh, Rehoboth-ir, Calah,

Isaiah 13:14

Like wandering gazelles and like sheep without a shepherd, each one will turn to his own people, each one will flee to his own land.

Isaiah 38:14

I chirp like a swallow or a crane; I moan like a dove. My eyes grow weak looking upwards. Lord, I am oppressed; support me.

Isaiah 47:13

You are worn out with your many consultations. So let the astrologers stand and save you – those who observe the stars, those who predict monthly what will happen to you.

Isaiah 48:20

Leave Babylon, flee from the Chaldeans! Declare with a shout of joy, proclaim this, let it go out to the end of the earth; announce, ‘The Lord has redeemed his servant   Jacob! ’

Isaiah 59:11

We all growl like bears and moan like doves. We hope for justice, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far from us.

Jeremiah 46:5

Why have I seen this? They are terrified, they are retreating, their warriors are crushed, they flee headlong, they never look back, terror is on every side! This is the  Lord’s declaration.

Jeremiah 47:3

At the sound of the stamping hooves of his stallions, the rumbling of his chariots, and the clatter of their wheels, fathers will not turn back for their sons. They will be utterly helpless

Jeremiah 50:16

Cut off the sower from Babylon as well as him who wields the sickle at harvest time. Because of the oppressor’s sword, each will turn to his own people, each will flee to his own land.

Jeremiah 51:13

You who reside by abundant water, rich in treasures, your end has come, your life thread is cut.

Jeremiah 51:30

Babylon’s warriors have stopped fighting; they sit in their strongholds. Their might is exhausted; they have become like women. Babylon’s homes have been set ablaze, her gate bars are shattered.

Nahum 1:1

The pronouncement  concerning Nineveh.  The book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite.

Nahum 3:17

Your court officials are like the swarming locust, and your scribes like clouds of locusts, which settle on the walls on a cold day; when the sun rises, they take off, and no one knows where they are.

Revelation 17:1

Then one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls  came and spoke with me: ‘Come, I will show you the judgement of the notorious prostitute  , who is seated on many  waters.

Revelation 17:15

He also said to me, ‘The waters you saw,  where the prostitute was seated, are peoples, multitudes, nations, and languages.