Nahum 2:2

New Century Version

Destroyers have destroyed God’s people and ruined their vines, but the Lord will bring back Jacob’s greatness like Israel’s greatness.

Cross References

Psalm 47:4

He chose the land we would inherit. We are the children of Jacob, whom he loved.Selah

Isaiah 60:15

“You have been hated and left empty with no one passing through. But I will make you great from now on; you will be a place of happiness forever and ever.

Jeremiah 25:29

Look! I am already bringing disaster on Jerusalem, the city that is called by my name. Do you think you will not be punished? You will be punished! I am sending war on all the people of the earth, says the Lord All-Powerful.’

Jeremiah 48:11

“The people of Moab have never known trouble. They are like wine left to settle; they have never been poured from one jar to another. They have not been taken into captivity. So they taste as they did before, and their smell has not changed.

Jeremiah 49:9

If workers came and picked the grapes from your vines, they would leave a few grapes behind. If robbers came at night, they would steal only enough for themselves.

Ezekiel 37:21

Say to the people, ‘This is what the Lord God says: I am going to take the people of Israel from among the nations where they have gone. I will gather them from all around and bring them into their own land.

Ezekiel 37:23

They will not continue to make themselves unclean by their idols, their statues of gods which I hate, or by their sins. I will save them from all the ways they sin and turn against me, and I will make them clean. Then they will be my people, and I will be their God.

Hosea 10:1

Israel is like a large vine that produced plenty of fruit. As the people became richer, they built more altars for idols. As their land became better, they put up better stone pillars to honor gods.

Nahum 2:10

Nineveh is robbed, ruined, and destroyed. The people lose their courage, and their knees knock. Stomachs ache, and everyone’s face grows pale.

Nahum 3:14

Get enough water before the long war begins. Make your defenses strong! Get mud, mix clay, make bricks!

Zephaniah 3:11

Then Jerusalem will not be ashamed of the wrongs done against me, because I will remove from this city those who like to brag; there will never be any more proud people on my holy mountain in Jerusalem.