Nahum 2:8 - New Revised Standard Version

⁸ Nineveh is like a pool whose waters run away. “Halt! Halt!”— 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.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁸ And as for Ninive, her waters are like a great pool, but the men flee away. They cry: Stand, stand, but there is none that will return back.

Nahum 2:8 Cross References

Genesis 10:11

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

Isaiah 13:14

Like a hunted gazelle, or like sheep with no one to gather them, all will turn to their own people, and all will flee to their own lands.

Isaiah 38:14

Like a swallow or a crane I clamor, I moan like a dove. My eyes are weary with looking upward. O Lord, I am oppressed; be my security!

Isaiah 47:13

You are wearied with your many consultations; let those who study the heavens stand up and save you, those who gaze at the stars, and at each new moon predict what shall befall you.

Isaiah 48:20

Go out from Babylon, flee from Chaldea, declare this with a shout of joy, proclaim it, send it forth to the end of the earth; say, “The Lord has redeemed his servant Jacob!”

Isaiah 59:11

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

Jeremiah 46:5

Why do I see them terrified? They have fallen back; their warriors are beaten down, and have fled in haste. They do not look back— terror is all around! says the Lord.

Jeremiah 47:3

At the noise of the stamping of the hoofs of his stallions, at the clatter of his chariots, at the rumbling of their wheels, parents do not turn back for children, so feeble are their hands,

Jeremiah 50:16

Cut off from Babylon the sower, and the wielder of the sickle in time of harvest; because of the destroying sword all of them shall return to their own people, and all of them shall flee to their own land.

Jeremiah 51:13

You who live by mighty waters, rich in treasures, your end has come, the thread of your life is cut.

Jeremiah 51:30

The warriors of Babylon have given up fighting, they remain in their strongholds; their strength has failed, they have become women; her buildings are set on fire, her bars are broken.

Nahum 1:1

An oracle concerning Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum of Elkosh.

Nahum 3:17

Your guards are like grasshoppers, your scribes like swarms of locusts settling on the fences on a cold day— when the sun rises, they fly away; no one knows where they have gone.

Revelation 17:1

Then one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls came and said to me, “Come, I will show you the judgment of the great whore who is seated on many waters,

Revelation 17:15

And he said to me, “The waters that you saw, where the whore is seated, are peoples and multitudes and nations and languages.