Nahum 2:8

New International Version

Nineveh is like a pool whose water is draining away. “Stop! Stop!” they cry, but no one turns back.

Cross References

Genesis 10:11

From that land he went to Assyria, where he built Nineveh, Rehoboth Ir, Calah

Isaiah 13:14

Like a hunted gazelle, like sheep without a shepherd, they will all return to their own people, they will flee to their native land.

Isaiah 38:14

I cried like a swift or thrush, I moaned like a mourning dove. My eyes grew weak as I looked to the heavens. I am being threatened; Lord, come to my aid!”

Isaiah 47:13

All the counsel you have received has only worn you out! Let your astrologers come forward, those stargazers who make predictions month by month, let them save you from what is coming upon you.

Isaiah 48:20

Leave Babylon, flee from the Babylonians! Announce this with shouts of joy and proclaim it. Send it out to the ends of the earth; say, “The Lord has redeemed his servant Jacob.”

Isaiah 59:11

We all growl like bears; we moan mournfully like doves. We look for justice, but find none; for deliverance, but it is far away.

Jeremiah 46:5

What do I see? They are terrified, they are retreating, their warriors are defeated. They flee in haste without looking back, and there is terror on every side,” declares the Lord.

Jeremiah 47:3

at the sound of the hooves of galloping steeds, at the noise of enemy chariots and the rumble of their wheels. Parents will not turn to help their children; their hands will hang limp.

Jeremiah 50:16

Cut off from Babylon the sower, and the reaper with his sickle at harvest. Because of the sword of the oppressor let everyone return to their own people, let everyone flee to their own land.

Jeremiah 51:13

You who live by many waters and are rich in treasures, your end has come, the time for you to be destroyed.

Jeremiah 51:30

Babylon’s warriors have stopped fighting; they remain in their strongholds. Their strength is exhausted; they have become weaklings. Her dwellings are set on fire; the bars of her gates are broken.

Nahum 1:1

A prophecy concerning Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite.

Nahum 3:17

Your guards are like locusts, your officials like swarms of locusts that settle in the walls on a cold day— but when the sun appears they fly away, and no one knows where.

Revelation 17:1

One of the seven angels who had the seven bowls came and said to me, “Come, I will show you the punishment of the great prostitute, who sits by many waters.

Revelation 17:15

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