Nahum 1:8

New Living Translation

But he will sweep away his enemies in an overwhelming flood. He will pursue his foes into the darkness of night.

Cross References

Job 30:15

I live in terror now. My honor has blown away in the wind, and my prosperity has vanished like a cloud.

Job 40:11

Give vent to your anger. Let it overflow against the proud.

Proverbs 4:19

But the way of the wicked is like total darkness. They have no idea what they are stumbling over.

Isaiah 13:10

The heavens will be black above them; the stars will give no light. The sun will be dark when it rises, and the moon will provide no light.

Isaiah 13:9

For see, the day of the Lord is coming— the terrible day of his fury and fierce anger. The land will be made desolate, and all the sinners destroyed with it.

Isaiah 28:17

I will test you with the measuring line of justice and the plumb line of righteousness. Since your refuge is made of lies, a hailstorm will knock it down. Since it is made of deception, a flood will sweep it away.

Isaiah 28:18

I will cancel the bargain you made to cheat death, and I will overturn your deal to dodge the grave. When the terrible enemy sweeps through, you will be trampled into the ground.

Isaiah 28:2

For the Lord will send a mighty army against it. Like a mighty hailstorm and a torrential rain, they will burst upon it like a surging flood and smash it to the ground.

Isaiah 8:22

and down at the earth, but wherever they look, there will be trouble and anguish and dark despair. They will be thrown out into the darkness.

Jeremiah 13:16

Give glory to the Lord your God before it is too late. Acknowledge him before he brings darkness upon you, causing you to stumble and fall on the darkening mountains. For then, when you look for light, you will find only terrible darkness and gloom.

Jeremiah 51:64

Then say, ‘In this same way Babylon and her people will sink, never again to rise, because of the disasters I will bring upon her.’” This is the end of Jeremiah’s messages.

Ezekiel 13:13

“Therefore, this is what the Sovereign Lord says: I will sweep away your whitewashed wall with a storm of indignation, with a great flood of anger, and with hailstones of fury.

Daniel 11:10

However, the sons of the king of the north will assemble a mighty army that will advance like a flood and carry the battle as far as the enemy’s fortress.

Daniel 11:22

Before him great armies will be swept away, including a covenant prince.

Daniel 11:40

“Then at the time of the end, the king of the south will attack the king of the north. The king of the north will storm out with chariots, charioteers, and a vast navy. He will invade various lands and sweep through them like a flood.

Daniel 9:26

“After this period of sixty-two sets of seven, the Anointed One will be killed, appearing to have accomplished nothing, and a ruler will arise whose armies will destroy the city and the Temple. The end will come with a flood, and war and its miseries are decreed from that time to the very end.

Amos 8:8

The earth will tremble for your deeds, and everyone will mourn. The ground will rise like the Nile River at floodtime; it will heave up, then sink again.

Nahum 1:1

This message concerning Nineveh came as a vision to Nahum, who lived in Elkosh.

Nahum 2:8

Nineveh is like a leaking water reservoir! The people are slipping away. “Stop, stop!” someone shouts, but no one even looks back.

Zephaniah 2:13

And the Lord will strike the lands of the north with his fist, destroying the land of Assyria. He will make its great capital, Nineveh, a desolate wasteland, parched like a desert.

Matthew 7:27

When the rains and floods come and the winds beat against that house, it will collapse with a mighty crash.”

Matthew 8:12

But many Israelites—those for whom the Kingdom was prepared—will be thrown into outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”

1 Samuel 2:9

“He will protect his faithful ones, but the wicked will disappear in darkness. No one will succeed by strength alone.