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Nahum 2:8

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8bNineveh is like a pool

whose waters run away.5

“Halt! Halt!” they cry,

but cnone turns back.

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Footnotes

  1. 5Compare Septuagint; the meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain

Cross references

  1. bSee ch. 1:1
  2. cJer. 46:5

In other versions

NIVNew International Version (2011)

Nineveh is like a pool

whose water is draining away.

“Stop! Stop!” they cry,

but no one turns back.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

Nineveh has been like a pool of water

from her first days,

but they are fleeing.

“Stop! Stop!” they cry,

but no one turns back.

NLTNew Living Translation

Nineveh is like a leaking water reservoir!

The people are slipping away.

“Stop, stop!” someone shouts,

but no one even looks back.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

Nineveh is like a pool of water without its water.

As they flee, she cries, “Stop! Stop!”

But there is no one who turns back.

KJV 1900King James 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.