Nahum 2:8

Modern English Version

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

Cross References

Genesis 10:11

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

Isaiah 13:14

It shall be as the chased roe, and as a sheep that no man takes up; every man shall turn to his own people and flee every one into his own land.

Isaiah 38:14

Like a crane or a swallow, so I twitter; I mourn as a dove; my eyes look wistfully upward. O  Lord, I am oppressed; undertake for me.

Isaiah 47:13

You are wearied in the multitude of your counsels; let now the astrologers, the stargazers, the monthly prognosticators stand up and save you from these things that shall come upon you.

Isaiah 48:20

Go forth from Babylon! Flee from the Chaldeans! With a voice of singing declare, proclaim this, utter it even to the ends of the earth; say, “The Lord has redeemed His servant Jacob.”

Isaiah 59:11

We all roar like bears and mourn sadly like doves; we look for justice, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far from us.

Jeremiah 46:5

Why have I seen them dismayed and drawing back? Their mighty ones are beaten down and have taken refuge in flight, and not looking back. Terror is on every side! says the Lord.

Jeremiah 47:3

at the noise of the stamping of the hoofs of his strong horses, at the rushing of his chariots, and at the rumbling of his wheels. The fathers will not look back to their children because of the feebleness of their hands,

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 everyone will turn to his people, and everyone will flee to his own land.

Jeremiah 51:13

O you who dwell by many waters, abundant in treasures, your end has come, and the measure of your end.

Jeremiah 51:30

The mighty men of Babylon have ceased fighting; they have remained in their strongholds. Their might has failed; they became as women. They have burned her dwelling places; the bars of her gates are broken.

Nahum 1:1

An oracle for Nineveh, a writing of the vision of Nahum, the Elkoshite.

Nahum 3:17

Your leaders are like grasshoppers, your commanders like swarms of locusts, which camp in the hedges on a cold day; when the sun rises they fly away, and the place where they are is not known.

Revelation 17:1

One of the seven angels who had the seven bowls came and talked with me, saying to me, “Come, I will show you the judgment of the great prostitute who sits on many waters,

Revelation 17:15

Then he said to me, “The waters which you saw, where the prostitute sits, are peoples and multitudes and nations and tongues.