Nahum 1:8

In 11 translations

BSB

But with an overwhelming flood He will make an end of Nineveh and pursue His enemies into darkness.Literally of her place

KJV

But with an overrunning flood he will make an utter end of the place thereof, and darkness shall pursue his enemies.

WEB

But with an overflowing flood, he will make a full end of her place, and will pursue his enemies into darkness.

ASV

But with an over-running flood he will make a full end of her place, and will pursue his enemies into darkness.

LSV

And with a flood passing over, || An end He makes of its place, || And darkness pursues His enemies.

YLT

And with a flood passing over, An end He maketh of its place, And His enemies doth darkness pursue.

DBY

But with an overrunning flood he will make a full end of the place thereof, and darkness shall pursue his enemies.

DRC

But with a flood that passeth by, he will make an utter end of the place thereof: and darkness shall pursue his enemies.

GNV

But passing ouer as with a flood, he will vtterly destroy the place thereof, and darknesse shall pursue his enemies.

JPS

But with an overrunning flood He will make a full end of the place thereof, and darkness shall pursue His enemies.

LXXE

But with an overrunning flood he will make an utter end: darkness shall pursue those that rise up against him and his enemies.

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WLC

וּבְשֶׁ֣טֶף עֹבֵ֔ר כָּלָ֖ה יַעֲשֶׂ֣ה מְקוֹמָ֑הּ וְאֹיְבָ֖יו יְרַדֶּף־חֹֽשֶׁךְ׃

LXX-Br

Καὶ ἐν κατακλυσμῷ πορείας συντέλειαν ποιήσεται, τοὺς ἐπεγειρομένους καὶ τοὺς ἐχθροὺς αὐτοῦ διώξεται σκότος.

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• Ezekiel 13:13Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: In My wrath I will release a windstorm, and in My anger torrents of rain and hail will fall with destructive fury.
• Isaiah 28:17I will make justice the measuring line and righteousness the level. Hail will sweep away your refuge of lies, and water will flood your hiding place.
• Isaiah 8:22Then they will look to the earth and see only distress and darkness and the gloom of anguish. And they will be driven into utter darkness.
• Amos 9:5–6The Lord GOD of Hosts, He who touches the earth and it melts, and all its dwellers mourn— all the land rises like the Nile, then sinks like the river of Egypt— He builds His upper rooms in the heavens and founds His…
• Zephaniah 2:13And He will stretch out His hand against the north and destroy Assyria; He will make Nineveh a desolation, as dry as a desert.
• Amos 8:8Will not the land quake for this, and all its dwellers mourn? All of it will swell like the Nile; it will surge and then subside like the Nile in Egypt.
• Job 30:15Terrors are turned loose against me; they drive away my dignity as by the wind, and my prosperity has passed like a cloud.
• Nahum 1:1This is the burden against Nineveh, the book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite:
• Isaiah 8:7–8the Lord will surely bring against them the mighty floodwaters of the Euphrates — the king of Assyria and all his pomp. It will overflow its channels and overrun its banks. It will pour into Judah, swirling and…
• Daniel 11:40At the time of the end, the king of the South will engage him in battle, but the king of the North will storm out against him with chariots, horsemen, and many ships, invading many countries and sweeping through them…
• Proverbs 4:19But the way of the wicked is like the darkest gloom; they do not know what makes them stumble.
• Matthew 7:27The rain fell, the torrents raged, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell—and great was its collapse!”
• Jeremiah 13:16Give glory to the LORD your God before He brings darkness, before your feet stumble on the dusky mountains. You wait for light, but He turns it into deep gloom and thick darkness.
• Daniel 9:26Then after the sixty-two weeks the Messiah will be cut off and will have nothing. Then the people of the prince who is to come will destroy the city and the sanctuary. The end will come like a flood, and until the end…
• Daniel 11:22Then a flood of forces will be swept away before him and destroyed, along with a prince of the covenant.
• Matthew 8:12But the sons of the kingdom will be thrown into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”

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