Nahum 2:8

Good News Translation

Like water from a broken dam the people rush from Nineveh! “Stop! Stop!” the cry rings out— but no one turns back.

Cross References

Genesis 10:11

From that land he went to Assyria and built the cities of Nineveh, Rehoboth Ir, Calah,

Isaiah 13:14

“The foreigners living in Babylon will run away to their homelands, scattering like deer escaping from hunters, like sheep without a shepherd.

Isaiah 38:14

My voice was thin and weak, And I moaned like a dove. My eyes grew tired from looking to heaven. Lord, rescue me from all this trouble.

Isaiah 47:13

You are powerless in spite of the advice you get. Let your astrologers come forward and save you— those people who study the stars, who map out the zones of the heavens and tell you from month to month what is going to happen to you.

Isaiah 48:20

Go out from Babylon, go free! Shout the news gladly; make it known everywhere: “The Lord has saved his servant Israel!”

Isaiah 59:11

We are frightened and distressed. We long for God to save us from oppression and wrong, but nothing happens.

Jeremiah 46:5

“But what do I see?” asks the Lord. “They are turning back in terror. Their soldiers are beaten back; overcome with fear, they run as fast as they can and do not look back.

Jeremiah 47:3

They will hear the hoofbeats of horses, the clatter of chariots, the rumble of wheels. Parents will not turn back for their children; their hands will hang limp at their sides.

Jeremiah 50:16

Do not let seeds be planted in that country nor let a harvest be gathered. Every foreigner living there will be afraid of the attacking army and will go back home.”

Jeremiah 51:13

That country has many rivers and rich treasures, but its time is up, and its thread of life is cut.

Jeremiah 51:30

The Babylonian soldiers have stopped fighting and remain in their forts. They have lost their courage and have become helpless. The city gates are broken down, and the houses are on fire.

Nahum 1:1

This is a message about Nineveh, the account of a vision seen by Nahum, who was from Elkosh.

Nahum 3:17

Your officials are like a swarm of locusts that stay in the walls on a cold day. But when the sun comes out, they fly away, and no one knows where they have gone!

Revelation 17:1

Then one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls came to me and said, “Come, and I will show you how the famous prostitute is to be punished, that great city that is built near many rivers.

Revelation 17:15

The angel also said to me, “The waters you saw, on which the prostitute sits, are nations, peoples, races, and languages.