Nahum 1:8 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁸ even in a rushing flood. He will make a full end of his adversaries and will pursue his enemies into darkness.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁸ But with an overrunning flood he will make an utter end of the place thereof, and darkness shall pursue his enemies.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁸ But with an overrunning flood He will make a full end of [Nineveh's very] site and pursue His enemies into darkness.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁸ But with an over-running flood he will make a full end of her place, and will pursue his enemies into darkness.

Common English Bible

⁸ With a rushing flood, he will utterly destroy her place and pursue his enemies into darkness.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁸ And in the flood that passes over, he brings to consummation the end of his place. And darkness shall pursue his adversaries.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁸ But with a flood that passeth by, he will make an utter end of the place thereof: and darkness shall pursue his enemies.

Nahum 1:8 Cross References

Job 30:15

Terrors are turned upon me; my honor is pursued as by the wind, and my prosperity has passed away like a cloud.

Job 40:11

Pour out the overflowings of your anger, and look on all who are proud and humble them.

Proverbs 4:19

The way of the wicked is like deep darkness; they do not know what they stumble over.

Isaiah 13:10

For the stars of the heavens and their constellations will not give their light; the sun will be dark at its rising, and the moon will not shed its light.

Isaiah 13:9

See, the day of the Lord is coming, cruel, with wrath and fierce anger, to make the earth a desolation and to destroy its sinners from it.

Isaiah 28:17

And I will make justice the line and righteousness the plummet; hail will sweep away the refuge of lies, and waters will overwhelm the shelter.

Isaiah 28:18

Then your covenant with death will be annulled, and your agreement with Sheol will not stand; when the overwhelming scourge passes through, you will be beaten down by it.

Isaiah 28:2

See, the Lord has one who is mighty and strong, like a storm of hail, a destroying tempest, like a storm of mighty, overflowing waters; with force he will hurl them down to the earth.

Isaiah 8:22

or they will look to the earth, but they will see only distress and darkness, the gloom of anguish, and they will be thrust into thick darkness.

Jeremiah 13:16

Give glory to the Lord your God before he brings darkness and before your feet stumble on the mountains at twilight; while you look for light, he turns it into gloom and makes it deep darkness.

Jeremiah 51:64

and say, ‘Thus shall Babylon sink, to rise no more, because of the disasters that I am bringing on her.’ ” Thus far are the words of Jeremiah.

Ezekiel 13:13

Therefore thus says the Lord God: In my wrath I will make a stormy wind break out, and in my anger there shall be a deluge of rain and hailstones in wrath to destroy it.

Daniel 11:10

“His sons shall wage war and assemble a multitude of great forces that shall advance like a flood and pass through and again shall carry the war as far as his fortress.

Daniel 11:22

Armies shall be utterly swept away and broken before him, and the prince of the covenant as well.

Daniel 11:40

“At the time of the end the king of the south shall attack him. But the king of the north shall rush upon him like a whirlwind, with chariots and horsemen and with many ships. He shall advance against countries and pass through like a flood.

Daniel 9:26

After the sixty-two weeks, an anointed one shall be cut off and shall have nothing, and the troops of the prince who is to come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary. Its end shall come with a flood, and to the end there shall be war. Desolations are decreed.

Amos 8:8

Shall not the land tremble on this account, and everyone mourn who lives in it, and all of it rise like the Nile, and be tossed about and sink again, like the Nile of Egypt?

Nahum 1:1

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

Nahum 2:8

Nineveh is like a pool whose waters run away. “Halt! Halt!”— but no one turns back.

Zephaniah 2:13

And he will stretch out his hand against the north and destroy Assyria, and he will make Nineveh a desolation, a dry waste like the desert.

Matthew 7:27

The rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell—and great was its fall!”

Matthew 8:12

while the heirs of the kingdom will be thrown into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”

1 Samuel 2:9

He will guard the feet of his faithful ones, but the wicked will perish in darkness, for not by might does one prevail.