Nahum 2:8

and the foundation has been exposed; and she has gone up, and her maidservants were led away as doves moaning in their hearts.

Updated Brenton Septuagint

In The 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.

In Context

7The gates of the cities have been opened, and the palaces have fallen into ruin,

9And as for Nineveh, her waters shall be as a pool of water: and they fled, and stayed not, and there was none to look back.

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Cross References

Isaiah 13:14And they that are left shall be as a fleeing fawn, and as a stray sheep, and there shall be none to gather them: so that a man shall turn back to his people, and a man shall flee to his own land.

Isaiah 47:13Thou art wearied in thy counsels. Let now the astrologers of the heaven stand and deliver thee, let them that see the stars tell thee what is about to come upon thee.

Isaiah 59:11They shall proceed together as a bear and as a dove: we have waited for judgment, and there is no salvation, it is gone far from us.

Jeremiah 51:30Thus said the Lord; Behold, I will give Hophra king of Egypt into the hands of his enemy, and into the hands of one that seeks his life; as I gave Zedekiah king of Judah into the hands of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, his enemy, and who sought his life.

Matthew Henry on Nahum 2:2-11

The Judgment of Nineveh. ( b. c. 710.) 1 He that dasheth in pieces is come up before thy face: keep the munition, watch the way, make thy loins strong, fortify thy power mightily. 2 For the Lord hath turned away the excellency of Jacob, as the excellency of Israel: for the emptiers have emptied them out, and marred their vine branches. 3 The shield of his mighty men is made red, the valiant men are in scarlet: the chariots shall be with flaming torches in the day of his preparation, and the fir trees shall be… Read the whole commentary →

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