Nahum 2:8

A Conservative Version

But Nineveh has been from of old like a pool of water. Yet they flee away. Stand, stand, [they cry], but none looks back.

Cross References

Revelation 17:15

And he says to me, The waters that thou saw, where the whore sits, are peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues.

Revelation 17:1

And one of the seven agents who had the seven bowls came and spoke with me, saying, Come, I will show thee the judgment of the great whore who sits upon the many waters

Nahum 3:17

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

Jeremiah 51:30

The mighty men of Babylon have ceased fighting; they remain in their strongholds. Their might has failed. They have become as women. Her dwelling-places are set on fire. Her bars are broken.

Jeremiah 50:16

Cut off the sower from Babylon, and him who handles the sickle in the time of harvest. For fear of the oppressing sword they shall turn each one to his people, and they shall flee each one to his own land.

Jeremiah 46:5

Why have I seen it? They are dismayed and have turned backward. And their mighty ones are beaten down, and have fled apace, and do not look back. Terror is on every side, says LORD.

Isaiah 48:20

Go ye forth from 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, LORD has redeemed his servant Jacob.

Isaiah 47:13

Thou are wearied in the multitude of thy counsels. Let now the astrologers, the star-gazers, the monthly prognosticators, stand up, and save thee from the things that shall come upon thee.

Isaiah 13:14

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

Genesis 10:11

He went forth out of that land into Assyria, and built Nineveh, and Rehoboth-ir, and Calah,

Jeremiah 51:13

O thou who dwell upon many waters, abundant in treasures, thine end has come, the measure of thy covetousness.

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 do not look back to their sons for feebleness of hands,

Nahum 1:1

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

Isaiah 38:14

Like a swallow [or] a crane, so I chattered. I moaned as a dove. My eyes fail [with looking] upward. O LORD, I am oppressed, be thou my surety.

Isaiah 59:11

We all roar like bears, and moan greatly like doves. We look for justice, but there is none, for salvation, but it is far off from us.