Because you have raged against me and your arrogance has come to my ears, I will put my hook in your nose and my bit in your mouth; I will turn you back on the way by which you came.
2 Kings 19:36 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 Then King Sennacherib of Assyria left, went home, and lived at Nineveh. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went and returned, and dwelt at Nineveh. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed and returned and dwelt at Nineveh. American Standard Version (1901) So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went and returned, and dwelt at Nineveh. Common English Bible So Assyria’s King Sennacherib departed, returning to Nineveh, where he stayed. Catholic Public Domain Version And Sennacherib, the king of the Assyrians, returned and dwelled in Nineveh. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And Sennacherib king of the Assyrians departing went away. And he returned and abode in Ninive. |
Because you have raged against me and your arrogance has come to my ears, I will put my hook in your nose and my bit in your mouth; I will turn you back on the way by which you came.
By the way that he came, by the same he shall return; he shall not come into this city, says the Lord.
I myself will put a spirit in him so that he shall hear a rumor and return to his own land; I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land.”
“Go at once to Nineveh, that great city, and cry out against it, for their wickedness has come up before me.”
An oracle concerning Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum of Elkosh.
Nineveh is like a pool whose waters run away. “Halt! Halt!”— but no one turns back.
The people of Nineveh will rise up at the judgment with this generation and condemn it, because they repented at the proclamation of Jonah, and indeed something greater than Jonah is here!