Nahum 2:8

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

Nineveh is like a pool whose waters run away. “Halt! Halt!” they cry; but none turns back.

Cross References

Genesis 10:11

From that land he went into Assyria, and built Nineveh, Rehoboth-Ir, Calah, and

Isaiah 13:14

And like a hunted gazelle, or like sheep with none to gather them, every man will turn to his own people, and every man will flee to his own land.

Isaiah 38:14

Like a swallow or a crane I clamor, I moan like a dove. My eyes are weary with looking upward. O Lord, I am oppressed; be thou my security!

Isaiah 47:13

You are wearied with your many counsels; let them stand forth and save you, those who divide the heavens, who gaze at the stars, who at the new moons predict what shall befall you.

Isaiah 48:20

Go forth from Babylon, flee from Chaldea, declare this with a shout of joy, proclaim it, send it forth to the end of the earth; say, “The Lord has redeemed his servant Jacob!”

Isaiah 59:11

We all growl like bears, we moan and moan like doves; we look for justice, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far from us.

Jeremiah 46:5

Why have I seen it? They are dismayed and have turned backward. Their warriors are beaten down, and have fled in haste; they look not back— terror on every side! says the Lord.

Jeremiah 47:3

At the noise of the stamping of the hoofs of his stallions, at the rushing of his chariots, at the rumbling of their wheels, the fathers look not back to their children, so feeble are their hands,

Jeremiah 50:16

Cut off from Babylon the sower, and the one who handles the sickle in time of harvest; because of the sword of the oppressor, every one shall turn to his own people, and every one shall flee to his own land.

Jeremiah 51:13

O you who dwell by many waters, rich in treasures, your end has come, the thread of your life is cut.

Jeremiah 51:30

The warriors of Babylon have ceased fighting, they remain in their strongholds; their strength has failed, they have become women; her dwellings are on fire, her bars are broken.

Nahum 1:1

An oracle concerning Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum of Elkosh.

Nahum 3:17

Your princes are like grasshoppers, your scribes like clouds of locusts settling on the fences in a day of cold— when the sun rises, they fly away; no one knows where they are.

Revelation 17:1

Then one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls came and said to me, “Come, I will show you the judgment of the great harlot who is seated upon many waters,

Revelation 17:15

And he said to me, “The waters that you saw, where the harlot is seated, are peoples and multitudes and nations and tongues.