Nahum 2:8

New Century Version

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

Cross References

Genesis 10:11

From there he went to Assyria, where he built the cities of Nineveh, Rehoboth Ir, and Calah.

Isaiah 13:14

“Then the people from Babylon will run away like hunted deer or like sheep who have no shepherd. Everyone will turn back to his own people; each will run back to his own land.

Isaiah 38:14

I cried like a bird and moaned like a dove. My eyes became tired as I looked to the heavens. Lord, I have troubles. Please help me.”

Isaiah 47:13

You are tired of the advice you have received. So let those who study the sky— those who tell the future by looking at the stars and the new moons— let them save you from what is about to happen to you.

Isaiah 48:20

My people, leave Babylon! Run from the Babylonians! Tell this news with shouts of joy to the people; spread it everywhere on earth. Say, “The Lord has saved his servants, the people of Jacob.”

Isaiah 59:11

All of us growl like the bears. We call out sadly like the doves. We look for justice, but there isn’t any. We want to be saved, but salvation is far away.

Jeremiah 46:5

What do I see? That army is terrified, and the soldiers are running away. Their warriors are defeated. They run away quickly without looking back. There is terror on every side!” says the Lord.

Jeremiah 47:3

They will hear the sound of the running horses and the noisy chariots and the rumbling chariot wheels. Parents will not help their children to safety, because they will be too weak to help.

Jeremiah 50:16

Don’t let the people from Babylon plant their crops or gather the harvest. The soldiers treated their captives cruelly. Now, let everyone go back home. Let everyone run to his own country.

Jeremiah 51:13

People of Babylon, you live near much water and are rich with many treasures, but your end as a nation has come. It is time to stop you from robbing other nations.

Jeremiah 51:30

Babylon’s warriors have stopped fighting. They stay in their protected cities. Their strength is gone, and they have become like frightened women. Babylon’s houses are burning. The bars of her gates are broken.

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 3:17

Your guards are like locusts. Your officers are like swarms of locusts that hang on the walls on a cold day. When the sun comes up, 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 and spoke to me. He said, “Come, and I will show you the punishment that will be given to the great prostitute, the one sitting over many waters.

Revelation 17:15

Then the angel said to me, “The waters that you saw, where the prostitute sits, are peoples, races, nations, and languages.