Nahum 1:8

Bible in Basic English 1965

But like water overflowing he will take them away; he will put an end to those who come up against him, driving his haters into the dark.

Cross References

Job 30:15

Fears have come on me; my hope is gone like the wind, and my well-being like a cloud.

Job 40:11

Let your wrath be overflowing; let your eyes see all the sons of pride, and make them low.

Proverbs 4:19

The way of sinners is dark; they see not the cause of their fall.

Isaiah 13:10

For the stars of heaven and its bright armies will not give their light: the sun will be made dark in his journey through the heaven, and the moon will keep back her light.

Isaiah 13:9

See, the day of the Lord is coming, cruel, with wrath and burning passion: to make the land a waste, driving the sinners in it to destruction.

Isaiah 28:17

And I will make right decision the measuring-line, and righteousness the weight: and the ice-storm will take away the safe place of false words, and the secret place will be covered by the flowing waters.

Isaiah 28:18

And the help you were looking for from death will come to nothing, and your agreement with the underworld will be broken; when the overflowing waters come through, then you will be overcome by them.

Isaiah 28:2

See, the Lord has a strong and cruel one; like a rain of ice, a storm of destruction, like the overflowing of a strong river, he will violently overcome them.

Isaiah 8:22

And he will be looking down on the earth, and there will be trouble and dark clouds, black night where there is no seeing.

Jeremiah 13:16

Give glory to the Lord your God, before he makes it dark, and before your feet are slipping on the dark mountains, and, while you are looking for a light, he makes it into deep dark, into black night.

Jeremiah 51:64

And you are to say, So Babylon will go down, never to be lifted up again, because of the evil which I will send on her: and weariness will overcome them. So far, these are the words of Jeremiah.

Ezekiel 13:13

For this reason, the Lord has said: I will have it broken in two by a storm-wind in my passion; and there will be an overflowing shower in my wrath, and you, O ice-drops, will come raining angrily down.

Daniel 11:10

And his son will make war, and will get together an army of great forces, and he will make an attack on him, overflowing and going past: and he will again take the war even to his strong place.

Daniel 11:22

And his forces will be completely taken away from before him and broken; and even the ruler of the agreement will have the same fate.

Daniel 11:40

And at the time of the end, the king of the south will make an attack on him: and the king of the north will come against him like a storm-wind, with war-carriages and horsemen and numbers of ships; and he will go through many lands like overflowing waters.

Daniel 9:26

And at the end of the times, even after the sixty-two weeks, one on whom the holy oil has been put will be cut off and have no (UNTRANSLATED TEXT) ;and the town and the holy place will be made waste together with a prince; and the end will come with an overflowing of waters, and even to the end there will be war; the making waste which has been fixed.

Amos 8:8

Will not the land be shaking with fear because of this, and everyone in it have sorrow? and all of it will be overflowing like the River; and it will be troubled and go down again like the River of Egypt.

Nahum 1:1

The word about Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite.

Nahum 2:8

But Nineveh is like a pool of water whose waters are flowing away; Keep your place, they say; but no one is turning back.

Zephaniah 2:13

And his hand will be stretched out against the north, for the destruction of Assyria; and he will make Nineveh unpeopled and dry like the waste land.

Matthew 7:27

And the rain came down and there was a rush of waters and the winds were driving against that house; and it came down and great was its fall.

Matthew 8:12

But the sons of the kingdom will be put out into the dark, and there will be weeping and cries of pain.

1 Samuel 2:9

He will keep the feet of his holy ones, but the evil-doers will come to their end in the dark night, for by strength no man will overcome.