Nahum 2:8 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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.

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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

Out of that land he went forth into Assyria, and builded Nineveh, and Rehoboth-Ir, and Calah,

Isaiah 13:14

And it shall come to pass, that as the chased roe, and as sheep that no man gathereth, they shall turn every man to his own people, and shall flee every man to his own land.

Isaiah 38:14

Like a swallow or a crane, so did I chatter; I did mourn as a dove: mine eyes fail with looking upward; O LORD, I am oppressed, be thou my surety.

Isaiah 47:13

Thou art wearied in the multitude of thy counsels: let now the astrologers, the stargazers, the monthly prognosticators, stand up, and save thee from the things that shall come upon thee.

Isaiah 48:20

Go ye forth of Babylon, flee ye from the Chaldeans; with a voice of singing declare ye, tell this, utter it even to the end of the earth: say ye, The LORD hath redeemed his servant Jacob.

Isaiah 59:11

We roar all like bears, and mourn sore like doves: we look for judgement, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far off from us.

Jeremiah 46:5

Wherefore have I seen it? they are dismayed and are turned backward; and their mighty ones are beaten down, and are fled apace, and look not back: terror is on every side, saith the LORD.

Jeremiah 47:3

At the noise of the stamping of the hoofs of his strong ones, at the rushing of his chariots, at the rumbling of his wheels, the fathers look not back to their children for feebleness of hands;

Jeremiah 50:16

Cut off the sower from Babylon, and him that handleth the sickle in the time of harvest: for fear of the oppressing sword they shall turn every one to his people, and they shall flee every one to his own land.

Jeremiah 51:13

O thou that dwellest upon many waters, abundant in treasures, thine end is come, the measure of thy covetousness.

Jeremiah 51:30

The mighty men of Babylon have forborne to fight, they remain in their strong holds; their might hath failed; they are become as women: her dwelling places are set on fire; her bars are broken.

Nahum 1:1

The burden of Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite.

Nahum 3:17

Thy crowned are as the locusts, and thy marshals as the swarms of grasshoppers, which camp in the hedges in the cold day, but when the sun ariseth they flee away, and their place is not known where they are.

Revelation 17:1

And there came one of the seven angels that had the seven bowls, and spake with me, saying, Come hither, I will shew thee the judgement of the great harlot that sitteth upon many waters;

Revelation 17:15

And he saith unto me, The waters which thou sawest, where the harlot sitteth, are peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues.