From that land he went out to Assyria and built Nineveh, Rechovot-ir, Calah
Nahum 2:8 - Tree of Life Version What was erected will be exiled and carried away. Her handmaids are lamenting like the sound of doves, beating their breasts. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 But Nineveh is of old like a pool of water: yet they shall flee away. Stand, stand, shall they cry; but none shall look back. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition And Nineveh, like a standing pool are her waters and [her inhabitants] are fleeing away! Stand! Stand [firm! a few cry], but no one looks back or causes them to return. American Standard Version (1901) But Nineveh hath been from of old like a pool of water: yet they flee away. Stand, stand, they cry; but none looketh back. Common English Bible Nineveh has been like a pool of water. Such are its waters, and others are fleeing. “Stop, stop!”—but no one can turn them back. Catholic Public Domain Version And Nineveh, her waters are like a fish pond. Yet truly, they have fled away: "Stand, stand!" But there is no one who will turn back. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And as for Ninive, her waters are like a great pool, but the men flee away. They cry: Stand, stand, but there is none that will return back. |
From that land he went out to Assyria and built Nineveh, Rechovot-ir, Calah
It will be like a hunted gazelle, or like sheep with no one gathering. Each will return to his own people, each will flee to his own country.
Like a swallow or a crane, I whisper, I moan like a dove. My eyes are weary, looking upward. Adonai, I am oppressed, be my security!
You are weary of your consultations. So many! So let the astrologers, star-gazers, predicting by new moons, stand up and save you from what will come upon you.
“Get out of Babylon, flee from Chaldea! With a shout of joy, proclaim this, send it out to the end of the earth, say: ‘Adonai has redeemed His servant Jacob!
All of us growl like bears or moan like doves. We hope for justice, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far from us.
Why have I seen them? They are shattered, retreating, their warriors beaten, fleeing for cover, no turning back, terror on every side!” It is a declaration of Adonai.
The noise— the stomping hooves of his stallions, the rumbling of his chariots, the reverberation of his wheels! Fathers will not turn back for their children because of their limp hands.
Cut off the sower from Babylon and the one who wields a sickle in the time of harvest. Before the sword of the oppressor they will each turn to his people, each will flee to his own land.
You dwelling by many waters, rich in treasures, your end has come, the measure of your covetousness.
Babylon’s warriors ceased fighting. They stay in their strongholds. Their might is exhausted. They have become like women. Her dwellings are set ablaze, her gate-bars are broken.
The oracle concerning Nineveh—the book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite.
Your princes are like locusts, your officials like a locust swarm, camping in the walls on a chilly day. The sun rises, and they are chased away, and where they are is unknown.
Then one of the seven angels holding the seven bowls came and spoke with me, saying, “Come, I will show you the sentencing of the great prostitute, who sits on many waters.
Then he tells me, “The waters that you saw, where the prostitute is seated, are peoples and multitudes and nations and tongues.