Nahum 2:8 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

⁸ And of the shining sword, and of the glittering spear, and of a multitude slain, and of a grievous destruction: and there is no end of carcasses, and they shall fall down on their dead bodies.

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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

1 Out of that land came forth Assur, and built Ninive, and the streets of the city, and Chale.

Isaiah 13:14

2 And owls shall answer one another there, in the houses thereof, and sirens in the temples of pleasure.

Isaiah 38:14

2 And Ezechias bed said: What shah be the sign that I shah go up to the house of the Lord?

Isaiah 47:13

See now all the things which thou hast heard: but have you declared them? I have shewn thee new things from that time, and things are kept which thou knowest not:

Isaiah 48:20

And he said: It is a small thing that thou shouldst be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to convert the dregs of Israel. Behold, I have given thee to be the light of the Gentiles, that thou mayst be my salvation even to the farthest part of the earth.

Isaiah 59:11

9 And they from the west, shall fear the name of the Lord: and they from the rising of the sun, his glory: when he shall come as a violent stream, which the spirit of the Lord driveth on:

Jeremiah 46:5

3 The word that the Lord spoke to Jeremias the prophet, how Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon should come and strike the land of Egypt:

Jeremiah 47:3

Moab is destroyed: proclaim a cry for her little ones.

Jeremiah 50:16

4 I have caused thee to fall into a snare, and thou art taken, O Babylon, and thou wast not aware of it: thou art found and caught, because thou hast provoked the Lord.

Jeremiah 51:13

1 And with thee I will break in pieces the horse, and his rider, and with thee I will break in pieces the chariot, and him that getteth up into it:

Jeremiah 51:30

8 They shall roar together like lions, they shall shake their manes like young lions.

Nahum 1:1

What do ye devise against the Lord? he will make an utter end: there shall not rise a double affliction.

Nahum 3:17

For behold, I will raise up the Chaldeans, a bitter and swift nation, marching upon the breadth of the earth, to possess the dwelling places that are not their own.

Revelation 17:1

0 Five are fallen, one is, and the other is not yet come: and when he is come, he must remain a short time.

Revelation 17:15

Render to her as she also hath rendered to you; and double unto her double according to her works: in the cup wherein she hath mingled, mingle ye double unto her.