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Nahum 2:8

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

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Nahum 2:8 in other translations

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.

Nahum 2:8 · World English Bible

Nahum 2:8 in context

  1. 6The gates of the rivers are opened, and the palace is dissolved.
  2. 7And it is decreed: she is uncovered, she is carried away; and her handmaids moan as with the voice of doves, beating upon their breasts.
  3. 8But Nineveh hath been from of old like a pool of water: yet they flee away. Stand, stand, they cry; but none looketh back.
  4. 9Take ye the spoil of silver, take the spoil of gold; for there is no end of the store, the glory of all goodly furniture.
  5. 10She is empty, and void, and waste; and the heart melteth, and the knees smite together, and anguish is in all loins, and the faces of them all are waxed pale.