Nahum 1:8

New Century Version

But like a rushing flood, he will completely destroy Nineveh; he will chase his enemies until he kills them.

Cross References

Job 30:15

Great fears overwhelm me. They blow my honor away as if by a great wind, and my safety disappears like a cloud.

Job 40:11

Let your great anger punish; look at the proud and bring them down.

Proverbs 4:19

But the wicked walk around in the dark; they can’t even see what makes them stumble.

Isaiah 13:10

The stars will not show their light; the skies will be dark. The sun will grow dark as it rises, and the moon will not give its light.

Isaiah 13:9

Look, the Lord’s day of judging is coming— a terrible day, a day of God’s anger. He will destroy the land and the sinners who live in it.

Isaiah 28:17

I will use justice as a measuring line and goodness as the standard. The lies you hide behind will be destroyed as if by hail. They will be washed away as if in a flood.

Isaiah 28:18

Your agreement with death will be erased; your contract with death will not help you. When terrible punishment comes, you will be crushed by it.

Isaiah 28:2

Look, the Lord has someone who is strong and powerful. Like a storm of hail and strong wind, like a sudden flood of water pouring over the country, he will throw Samaria down to the ground.

Isaiah 8:22

They will look around them at their land and see only trouble, darkness, and awful gloom. And they will be forced into the darkness.

Jeremiah 13:16

Give glory to the Lord your God before he brings darkness and before you slip and fall on the dark hills. You hope for light, but he will turn it into thick darkness; he will change it into deep gloom.

Jeremiah 51:64

Then say, ‘In the same way Babylon will sink and will not rise again because of the terrible things I will make happen here. Her people will fall.’ ” The words of Jeremiah end here.

Ezekiel 13:13

“ ‘So this is what the Lord God says: I will break the wall with a stormy wind. In my anger rain will pour down, and hailstones will destroy the wall.

Daniel 11:10

“The sons of the king of the North will prepare for war. They will get a large army together that will move through the land very quickly, like a powerful flood. Later, that army will come back and fight all the way to the strong, walled city of the king of the South.

Daniel 11:22

He will sweep away in defeat large and powerful armies and even a prince who made an agreement.

Daniel 11:40

“At the time of the end, the king of the South will fight a battle against the king of the North. The king of the North will attack with chariots, soldiers on horses, and many large ships. He will invade many countries and sweep through their lands like a flood.

Daniel 9:26

After the four hundred thirty-four years the appointed leader will be killed; he will have nothing. The people of the leader who is to come will destroy the city and the holy place. The end of the city will come like a flood, and war will continue until the end. God has ordered that place to be completely destroyed.

Amos 8:8

The whole land will shake because of it, and everyone who lives in the land will cry for those who died. The whole land will rise like the Nile; it will be shaken, and then it will fall like the Nile River in Egypt.”

Nahum 1:1

This is the message for the city of Nineveh. This is the book of the vision of Nahum, who was from the town of Elkosh.

Nahum 2:8

Nineveh is like a pool, and now its water is draining away. “Stop! Stop!” the people yell, but no one turns back.

Zephaniah 2:13

Then the Lord will turn against the north and destroy Assyria. He will make Nineveh a ruin as dry as a desert.

Matthew 7:27

It rained hard, the floods came, and the winds blew and hit that house, and it fell with a big crash.”

Matthew 8:12

But those people who should be in the kingdom will be thrown outside into the darkness, where people will cry and grind their teeth with pain.”

1 Samuel 2:9

He protects those who are loyal to him, but evil people will be silenced in darkness. Power is not the key to success.