Nahum 2:8

Her + 2:8 Ninevehʼs golus (exile) is decreed, she shall be carried away, 1 her slave girls moaning like the kol yonim (voice of doves), 1 beating their breasts. 1

Orthodox Jewish Bible

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 sha'arei haneharot (the gates of the rivers) shall be thrown open, 1 and the heikhal (palace) reels. 1

9But Nineveh is like a pool of mayim; 1 and her mayim is draining away. 1 Stop, stop, shall they cry; 1 but no one turns back. 1

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Cross References

Isaiah 13:14And it shall be like deer chased, 1 and like tzon not gathered; 1 each ish turning to his people, 1 and each fleeing to his own land. 1

Isaiah 47:13Thou art wearied in the multitude of thy etzot (counsels). 1 Let now stand up the hovrev Shomayim (the dissectors of the heavens, astrologers), 1 the chozim bakochavim (stargazers), 1 the ones that predict the future by Rosh Chodesh, 1 and save thee from these things 1 that shall come upon thee. 1

Isaiah 59:11We all growl like dubim (bears), 1 and moan continually like yonim (doves); 1 we look for mishpat, but there is none; 1 for Yeshu'ah (Salvation), but it is far off from us. 1

Jeremiah 50:16Cut off the sower from Bavel, 1 and him that reapeth with the magal (sickle) in the time of katzir; 1 for fear of the oppressing cherev 1 they shall turn every ish to his people, 1 and they shall flee every ish to his own land.

Jeremiah 51:30The Gibborim of Bavel have ceased to fight, 1 they have remained in their metzadot (strongholds); 1 their gevurah (might) hath failed; 1 they became as nashim; 1 they have burned her mishkenot (dwelling places); 1 her gate bars are broken. 1

Revelation 17:1And one of the shiva malachim (seven angels) having the sheva hamakkot (seven plagues) came and spoke with me saying, “Bo! (Come!) I will show you the mishpat (judgment) of the Zonah HaGedolah (the Great Prostitute) sitting on rabbim mayim, + 17:1 Isa 23:17; Jer 51:12-13

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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