Nahum 2:8

KJV1611 – Modern English

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.

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Other Translations

  • Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

    It is decreed: she is uncovered, she is carried away. Her maidservants moan like doves and beat upon their breasts.

  • King James Version 1769 (Standard 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.

  • American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

    But Nineveh{H5210} hath been from of old{H3117} like a pool{H1295} of water:{H4325} yet they flee away.{H5127} Stand,{H5975} stand,{H5975} [they cry]; but none looketh back.{H6437}

  • King James Version with Strong's Numbers

    But Nineveh{H5210} is of old{H3117} like a pool{H1295} of water{H4325}: yet they shall flee away{H5127}{(H8801)}. Stand{H5975}{(H8798)}, stand{H5975}{(H8798)}, shall they cry; but none shall look back{H6437}{(H8688)}.

  • Coverdale Bible (1535)

    Niniue is like a pole full of water, but then shal they be fayne to fle. Stonde, stode, (shal they crie) & there shal not one turne backe.

  • Geneva Bible (1560)

    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.

  • Bishops' Bible (1568)

    Yea many a day Niniue was as a ponde full of water, yet now they flee, Stand ye, stande ye, and no man loketh backe.

  • Authorized King James Version (1611)

    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.

  • Webster's Bible (1833)

    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.

  • Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

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

  • American Standard Version (1901)

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

  • American Standard Version (1901)

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

  • Bible in Basic English (1941)

    And the queen is uncovered, she is taken away and her servant-girls are weeping like the sound of doves, hammering on their breasts.

  • World English Bible (2000)

    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.

  • NET Bible® (New English Translation)

    Nineveh was like a pool of water throughout her days, but now her people are running away; she cries out:“Stop! Stop!”– but no one turns back.

Referenced Verses

  • Gen 10:11 : 11 Out of that land went Asshur and built Nineveh, and the city of Rehoboth, and Calah,
  • Isa 13:14 : 14 And it will be as the hunted roe, and as a sheep that no man takes up: every man will turn to his own people, and everyone will flee to his own land.
  • Isa 47:13 : 13 You are wearied in the multitude of your counsels. Let now the astrologers, the stargazers, the monthly prognosticators stand up and save you from these things that shall come upon you.
  • Isa 48:20 : 20 Go out from Babylon, flee from the Chaldeans, with a voice of singing declare, tell this, proclaim it even to the end of the earth; say, 'The LORD has redeemed his servant Jacob.'
  • Jer 46:5 : 5 Why have I seen them dismayed and turned back? Their mighty ones are beaten down, and have fled quickly, and do not look back: for fear is all around, says the LORD.
  • Jer 50:16 : 16 Cut off the sower from Babylon, and him that handles the sickle in the harvest time: for fear of the oppressing sword everyone shall turn to his own people, and they shall flee to their own land.
  • Jer 51:13 : 13 You who dwell upon many waters, abundant in treasures, your end has come, and the measure of your covetousness.
  • Jer 51:30 : 30 The mighty men of Babylon have ceased to fight, they have remained in their strongholds; their might has failed; they became like women; they have burned her dwelling places; her bars are broken.
  • Nah 3:17 : 17 Your crowned are as the locusts, and your captains as the great grasshoppers, which camp in the hedges in the cold day, but when the sun arises they flee away, and their place is not known where they are.
  • Rev 17:1 : 1 Then one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls came and talked with me, saying to me, Come here; I will show you the judgment of the great prostitute who sits on many waters:
  • Rev 17:15 : 15 Then he said to me, The waters which you saw, where the prostitute sits, are peoples, multitudes, nations, and languages.

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    2 Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry against it; for their wickedness has come up before me.

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    2 Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and preach to it the message that I give you.

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    5 Why have I seen them dismayed and turned back? Their mighty ones are beaten down, and have fled quickly, and do not look back: for fear is all around, says the LORD.

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