Terrors have turned on me. They chase my honor as the wind. My welfare has passed away as a cloud.
Nahum 1:8 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) But with an overflowing flood, he will make a full end of her place, and will pursue 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 have turned on me. They chase my honor as the wind. My welfare has passed away as a cloud.
Pour out the fury of your anger. Look at everyone who is proud, and bring him low.
The way of the wicked is like darkness. They don't know what they stumble over.
For the stars of the sky and its Mazzarot will not give their light. The sun will be darkened in its going forth, and the moon will not cause its light to shine.
Behold, the day of the LORD comes, cruel, with wrath and fierce anger; to make the land a desolation, and to destroy its sinners out of it.
I will make justice the measuring line, and righteousness the plumb line. The hail will sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters will overflow the hiding place.
Your covenant with death shall be annulled, and your agreement with She'ol shall not stand. When the overflowing scourge passes through, then you will be trampled down by it.
Behold, the Lord has a mighty and strong one. Like a storm of hail, a destroying storm, and like a storm of mighty waters overflowing, he will cast them down to the earth with his hand.
and look to the earth, and see distress, darkness, and the gloom of anguish. They will will be driven into thick darkness.
Give glory to the LORD your God, before he cause darkness, and before your feet stumble on the dark mountains, and, while you look for light, he turn it into the shadow of death, and make it gross darkness.
and you shall say, Thus shall Bavel sink, and shall not rise again because of the evil that I will bring on her; and they shall be weary. Thus far are the words of Yirmeyahu.
Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: I will even tear it with a stormy wind in my wrath; and there shall be an overflowing shower in my anger, and great hailstones in wrath to consume it.
His sons shall war, and shall assemble a multitude of great forces, which shall come on, and overflow, and pass through; and they shall return and war, even to his fortress.
The overwhelming forces shall be overwhelmed from before him, and shall be broken; yes, also the prince of the covenant.
At the time of the end shall the king of the south contend with him; and the king of the north shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships; and he shall enter into the countries, and shall overflow and pass through.
After the sixty-two weeks the Anointed One shall be cut off, and shall have nothing: and the people of the prince who shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end of it shall be with a flood, and even to the end shall be war; desolations are determined.
Won't the land tremble for this, and everyone mourn who dwells in it? Yes, it will rise up wholly like the River; and it will be stirred up and sink again, like the River of Egypt.
An oracle about Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nachum the Elkoshite.
But Nineveh has been from of old like a pool of water, yet they flee away. *Stop! Stop!* they cry, but no one looks back.
He will stretch out his hand against the north, destroy Ashur, and will make Nineveh a desolation, and dry like the wilderness.
The rain came down, the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat on that house; and it fell--and great was its fall.*
but the children of the Kingdom will be thrown out into the outer darkness. There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.*
He will keep the feet of his holy ones, but the wicked shall be put to silence in darkness; for no man shall prevail by strength.