Terrors are turned loose against me; they chase my dignity away like the wind, and my prosperity has passed by like a cloud.
Nahum 1:8 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised But he will completely destroy Nineveh with an overwhelming flood, and he will chase his enemies into darkness. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 But with an overrunning flood he will make an utter end of the place thereof, and darkness shall pursue his enemies. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition But with an overrunning flood He will make a full end of [Nineveh's very] site and pursue His enemies into darkness. American Standard Version (1901) But with an over-running flood he will make a full end of her place, and will pursue his enemies into darkness. Common English Bible With a rushing flood, he will utterly destroy her place and pursue his enemies into darkness. Catholic Public Domain Version And in the flood that passes over, he brings to consummation the end of his place. And darkness shall pursue his adversaries. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version But with a flood that passeth by, he will make an utter end of the place thereof: and darkness shall pursue his enemies. |
Terrors are turned loose against me; they chase my dignity away like the wind, and my prosperity has passed by like a cloud.
Pour out your raging anger; look on every proud person and humiliate him.
But the way of the wicked is like the darkest gloom; they don’t know what makes them stumble.
Indeed, the stars of the sky and its constellations will not give their light. The sun will be dark when it rises, and the moon will not shine.
Look, the day of the Lord is coming – cruel, with fury and burning anger – to make the earth a desolation and to destroy its sinners.
And I will make justice the measuring line and righteousness the mason’s level.’ Hail will sweep away the false refuge, and water will flood your hiding place.
Your covenant with Death will be dissolved, and your agreement with Sheol will not last. When the overwhelming catastrophe passes through, you will be trampled.
Look, the Lord has a strong and mighty one – like a devastating hailstorm, like a storm with strong flooding water. He will bring it across the land with his hand.
They will look towards the earth and see only distress, darkness, and the gloom of affliction, and they will be driven into thick darkness.
Give glory to the Lord your God before he brings darkness, before your feet stumble on the mountains at dusk. You wait for light, but he brings darkest gloom and makes total darkness.
Then say, “In the same way, Babylon will sink and never rise again because of the disaster I am bringing on her. They will grow weary.” ’ The words of Jeremiah end here.
‘ “So this is what the Lord God says: I will release a whirlwind in my wrath. Torrential rain will come in my anger, and hailstones will fall in destructive fury.
‘His sons will mobilise for war and assemble a large number of armed forces. They will advance, sweeping through like a flood, , and will again wage war as far as his fortress.
A flood of forces will be swept away before him; they will be broken, as well as the covenant prince.
‘At the time of the end, the king of the South will engage him in battle, but the king of the North will storm against him with chariots, horsemen, and many ships. He will invade countries and sweep through them like a flood.
After those sixty-two weeks the Anointed One will be cut off and will have nothing. The people of the coming ruler will destroy the city and the sanctuary. The end will come with a flood, and until the end there will be war; desolations are decreed.
Because of this, won’t the land quake and all who dwell in it mourn? All of it will rise like the Nile; it will surge and then subside like the Nile in Egypt.
The pronouncement concerning Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite.
Nineveh has been like a pool of water from her first days, but they are fleeing. ‘Stop! Stop! ’ they cry, but no one turns back.
He will also stretch out his hand against the north and destroy Assyria; he will make Nineveh a desolate ruin, dry as the desert.
The rain fell, the rivers rose, the winds blew and pounded that house, and it collapsed. It collapsed with a great crash.’
But the sons of the kingdom will be thrown into the outer darkness where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’
He guards the steps of his faithful ones, but the wicked perish in darkness, for a person does not prevail by his own strength.