Nahum 1:8

Bible in Basic English (1941)

But like water overflowing he will take them away; he will put an end to those who come up against him, driving his haters into the dark.

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  • Isa 8:22 : 22 And he will be looking down on the earth, and there will be trouble and dark clouds, black night where there is no seeing.
  • Isa 28:17 : 17 And I will make right decision the measuring-line, and righteousness the weight: and the ice-storm will take away the safe place of false words, and the secret place will be covered by the flowing waters.
  • Amos 8:8 : 8 Will not the land be shaking with fear because of this, and everyone in it have sorrow? and all of it will be overflowing like the River; and it will be troubled and go down again like the River of Egypt.
  • Amos 9:5-6 : 5 For the Lord, the God of armies, is he at whose touch the land is turned to water, and everyone in it will be given up to sorrow; all of it will be overflowing like the River, and will go down again like the River of Egypt; 6 It is he who makes his rooms in the heaven, basing his arch on the earth; whose voice goes out to the waters of the sea, and sends them flowing over the face of the earth; the Lord is his name.
  • Nah 1:1 : 1 The word about Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite.
  • Nah 2:8 : 8 And the queen is uncovered, she is taken away and her servant-girls are weeping like the sound of doves, hammering on their breasts.
  • Zeph 2:13 : 13 And his hand will be stretched out against the north, for the destruction of Assyria; and he will make Nineveh unpeopled and dry like the waste land.
  • Matt 7:27 : 27 And the rain came down and there was a rush of waters and the winds were driving against that house; and it came down and great was its fall.
  • Matt 8:12 : 12 But the sons of the kingdom will be put out into the dark, and there will be weeping and cries of pain.
  • 2 Pet 3:6-7 : 6 And that the world which then was came to an end through the overflowing of the waters. 7 But the present heaven and the present earth have been kept for destruction by fire, which is waiting for them on the day of the judging and destruction of evil men.
  • Jer 13:16 : 16 Give glory to the Lord your God, before he makes it dark, and before your feet are slipping on the dark mountains, and, while you are looking for a light, he makes it into deep dark, into black night.
  • Ezek 13:13 : 13 For this reason, the Lord has said: I will have it broken in two by a storm-wind in my passion; and there will be an overflowing shower in my wrath, and you, O ice-drops, will come raining angrily down.
  • Dan 9:26 : 26 And at the end of the times, even after the sixty-two weeks, one on whom the holy oil has been put will be cut off and have no ...; and the town and the holy place will be made waste together with a prince; and the end will come with an overflowing of waters, and even to the end there will be war; the making waste which has been fixed.
  • Dan 11:10 : 10 And his son will make war, and will get together an army of great forces, and he will make an attack on him, overflowing and going past: and he will again take the war even to his strong place.
  • Dan 11:22 : 22 And his forces will be completely taken away from before him and broken; and even the ruler of the agreement will have the same fate.
  • Dan 11:40 : 40 And at the time of the end, the king of the south will make an attack on him: and the king of the north will come against him like a storm-wind, with war-carriages and horsemen and numbers of ships; and he will go through many lands like overflowing waters.
  • Job 30:15 : 15 Fears have come on me; my hope is gone like the wind, and my well-being like a cloud.
  • Prov 4:19 : 19 The way of sinners is dark; they see not the cause of their fall.
  • Isa 8:7-8 : 7 For this cause the Lord is sending on them the waters of the River, deep and strong, even the king of Assyria and all his glory: and it will come up through all its streams, overflowing all its edges: 8 And it will come on into Judah; rushing on and overflowing, till the waters are up to the neck; *** and his outstretched wings will be covering the land from side to side: for God is with us.

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