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Nahum 2:8

Nineveh is like a leaking pool of water, with its people fleeing away like rushing water. 1 Others shout, “Stop, stop,” but no one looks back. 1

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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

7Huzzab is stripped of her clothes and is taken away; 1 her female servants moan like doves, beating on their breasts. 1

9Take the silver plunder, take the gold plunder, for there is no end to it, 1 to the splendor of all Nineveh's beautiful things. 1

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Cross References

Isaiah 13:14Like a hunted gazelle or like a sheep with no shepherd, 1 every man will turn toward his own people and will flee to his own land. 1

Isaiah 47:13You are tired out with your many consultations; let those men stand up 1 and save you—those who chart the heavens and look at the stars, 1 those who declare the new moons—let them save you from what will happen to you. 1

Isaiah 59:11We growl like bears and moan like doves; 1 we wait for justice, but there is none; for rescue, but it is far from us. 1

Jeremiah 50:16Destroy both the farmer who sows seed and the one who uses a sickle at the time of harvest in Babylon. 1 Let each person turn back to his own people from the oppressor's sword; let them flee to their own land. 1

Jeremiah 51:30The soldiers in Babylon have stopped fighting; they stay in their strongholds. 1 Their strength has failed; they have become women—her homes are on fire, the bars of her gates are broken. 1

Revelation 17:1One of the seven angels who had been holding the seven bowls came and said to me, “Come, I will show you the condemnation of the great prostitute who is seated on many waters.

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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