Nahum 2:8 “Nineveh has been like a pool of water throughout her days, but now it…”

Nahum 2:8

Nineveh has been like a pool of water throughout her days, but now it is draining away. “Stop! Stop!” they cry, but no one turns back.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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.

World English Bible

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.

American Standard Version

But Nineveh hath been from of old like a pool of water: yet they flee away. Stand, stand, they cry; but none looketh back.

Geneva Bible 1599

But Nineueh is of olde like a poole of water: yet they shall flee away. Stande, stande, shall they crie: but none shall looke backe.

Darby Translation

Nineveh hath been like a pool of water, since the day she existed, yet they flee away. ...Stand! Stand! But none looketh back.

Young's Literal Translation

And Nineveh [is] as a pool of waters, From of old it [is] — and they are fleeing! 'Stand ye, stand;' and none is turning!

Bible in Basic English

But Nineveh is like a pool of water whose waters are flowing away; Keep your place, they say; but no one is turning back.

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Cross references

“of old”

Genesis 10:11

Genesis 10:11 · BSB

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

“like”

Jeremiah 51:13 Revelation 17:1 Revelation 17:15

Jeremiah 51:13 · BSB

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

Revelation 17:1 · BSB

Then one of the seven angels with the seven bowls came and said to me, “Come, I will show you the punishment of the great prostitute, who sits on many waters.

Revelation 17:15 · BSB

Then the angel said to me, “The waters you saw, where the prostitute was seated, are peoples and multitudes and nations and tongues.

“Stand”

Nahum 3:17 Isaiah 13:14 Isaiah 47:13 Isaiah 48:20 Jeremiah 50:16 Jeremiah 51:30

Nahum 3:17 · BSB

Your guards are like the swarming locust, and your scribes like clouds of locusts that settle on the walls on a cold day. When the sun rises, they fly away, and no one knows where.

Isaiah 13:14 · BSB

Like a hunted gazelle, like a sheep without a shepherd, each will return to his own people, each will flee to his native land.

Isaiah 47:13 · BSB

You are wearied by your many counselors; let them come forward now and save you— your astrologers who observe the stars, who monthly predict your fate.

Isaiah 48:20 · BSB

Leave Babylon! Flee from the Chaldeans! Declare it with a shout of joy, proclaim it, let it go out to the ends of the earth, saying, “The LORD has redeemed His servant Jacob!”

Jeremiah 50:16 · BSB

Cut off the sower from Babylon, and the one who wields the sickle at harvest time. In the face of the oppressor’s sword, each will turn to his own people, each will flee to his own land.

Jeremiah 51:30 · BSB

The warriors of Babylon have stopped fighting; they sit in their strongholds. Their strength is exhausted; they have become like women. Babylon’s homes have been set ablaze, the bars of her gates are broken.

Also

Jeremiah 46:5

Jeremiah 46:5 · BSB

Why am I seeing this? They are terrified, they are retreating; their warriors are defeated, they flee in haste without looking back; terror is on every side!” declares the LORD.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

7It is decreed that the city be exiled and carried away; her maidservants moan like doves, and beat upon their breasts.

9“Plunder the silver! Plunder the gold!” There is no end to the treasure, an abundance of every precious thing.

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