Nahum 1:8

New English Translation

But with an overwhelming flood he will make a complete end of Nineveh; he will drive his enemies into darkness.

Cross References

Job 30:15

Terrors are turned loose on me; they drive away my honor like the wind, and like a cloud my deliverance has passed away.

Job 40:11

Scatter abroad the abundance of your anger. Look at every proud man and bring him low;

Proverbs 4:19

The way of the wicked is like gloomy darkness; they do not know what causes them to stumble.

Isaiah 13:10

Indeed the stars in the sky and their constellations no longer give out their light; the sun is darkened as soon as it rises, and the moon does not shine.

Isaiah 13:9

Look, the Lord’s day of judgment is coming; it is a day of cruelty and savage, raging anger, destroying the earth and annihilating its sinners.

Isaiah 28:17

I will make justice the measuring line, fairness the plumb line; hail will sweep away the unreliable refuge, the floodwaters will overwhelm the hiding place.

Isaiah 28:18

Your treaty with death will be dissolved; your agreement with Sheol will not last. When the overwhelming judgment sweeps by, you will be overrun by it.

Isaiah 28:2

Look, the sovereign master sends a strong, powerful one. With the force of a hailstorm or a destructive windstorm, with the might of a driving, torrential rainstorm, he will knock that crown to the ground with his hand.

Isaiah 8:22

When one looks out over the land, he sees distress and darkness, gloom and anxiety, darkness and people forced from the land.

Jeremiah 13:16

Show the Lord your God the respect that is due him. Do it before he brings the darkness of disaster. Do it before you stumble into distress like a traveler on the mountains at twilight. Do it before he turns the light of deliverance you hope for into the darkness and gloom of exile.

Jeremiah 51:64

Then say, ‘In the same way Babylon will sink and never rise again because of the judgments I am ready to bring upon her; they will grow faint.’” The prophecies of Jeremiah end here.

Ezekiel 13:13

“‘Therefore this is what the sovereign Lord says: In my rage I will make a violent wind break out. In my anger there will be a deluge of rain and hailstones in destructive fury.

Daniel 11:10

His sons will wage war, mustering a large army which will advance like an overflowing river and carrying the battle all the way to the enemy’s fortress.

Daniel 11:22

Armies will be suddenly swept away in defeat before him; both they and a covenant leader will be destroyed.

Daniel 11:40

“At the time of the end the king of the south will attack him. Then the king of the north will storm against him with chariots, horsemen, and a large armada of ships. He will invade lands, passing through them like an overflowing river.

Daniel 9:26

Now after the sixty-two weeks, an anointed one will be cut off and have nothing. As for the city and the sanctuary, the people of the coming prince will destroy them. But his end will come speedily like a flood. Until the end of the war that has been decreed there will be destruction.

Amos 8:8

Because of this the earth will quake, and all who live in it will mourn. The whole earth will rise like the River Nile, it will surge upward and then grow calm, like the Nile in Egypt.

Nahum 1:1

The oracle against Nineveh; the book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite:

Nahum 2:8

Nineveh was like a pool of water throughout her days, but now her people are running away; she cries out: “Stop! Stop!” – but no one turns back.

Zephaniah 2:13

The Lord will attack the north and destroy Assyria. He will make Nineveh a heap of ruins; it will be as barren as the desert.

Matthew 7:27

The rain fell, the flood came, and the winds beat against that house, and it collapsed; it was utterly destroyed!”

Matthew 8:12

but the sons of the kingdom will be thrown out into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”

1 Samuel 2:9

He watches over his holy ones, but the wicked are made speechless in the darkness, for it is not by one’s own strength that one prevails.