Nahum 3:8

KJV1611 – Modern English

Are you better than populous No, that was situated among the rivers, that had the waters around it, whose rampart was the sea, whose wall was from the sea?

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  • Amos 6:2 : 2 Pass over to Calneh, and see; and from there go to Hamath the great: then go down to Gath of the Philistines: are they better than these kingdoms? Or is their border greater than your border?
  • Ezek 30:14-16 : 14 I will make Pathros desolate, set fire in Zoan, and execute judgments in No. 15 I will pour my fury on Sin, the strength of Egypt; and I will cut off the multitude of No. 16 I will set fire in Egypt: Sin will suffer great pain, No will be torn apart, and Noph will have distresses daily.
  • Ezek 31:2-3 : 2 Son of man, speak to Pharaoh king of Egypt, and to his multitude; Who are you like in your greatness? 3 Behold, the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon with beautiful branches, and with a sheltering canopy, and of high stature; and its top was among the thick boughs.
  • Isa 19:5-9 : 5 The waters shall fail from the sea, and the river shall be wasted and dried up. 6 They shall turn the rivers away; the brooks of defense shall be emptied and dried up; the reeds and rushes shall wither. 7 The paper reeds by the brooks, by the mouth of the brooks, and everything sown by the brooks, shall wither, be driven away, and be no more. 8 The fishermen also shall mourn, and all who cast hooks into the brooks shall lament, and those who spread nets upon the waters shall languish. 9 Moreover, those who work in fine flax and those who weave networks shall be confounded. 10 They shall be broken in their purposes, all who make sluices and ponds for fish.
  • Jer 46:25-26 : 25 The LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, says; Behold, I will punish Amon of No, and Pharaoh, and Egypt, with their gods, and their kings; even Pharaoh, and all who trust in him: 26 And I will deliver them into the hand of those who seek their lives, and into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of his servants: and afterward it shall be inhabited, as in the days of old, says the LORD.

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