Parallel Verses

Julia Smith Translation

With an inundation passing through he will make a completion of her place, and darkness shall pursue his enemies.

New American Standard Bible

But with an overflowing flood
He will make a complete end of its site,
And will pursue His enemies into darkness.

King James Version

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

Holman Bible

But He will completely destroy Nineveh
with an overwhelming flood,
and He will chase His enemies into darkness.

International Standard Version

But with an overwhelming deluge he will bring utter desolation to Nineveh, and his enemies he will pursue with darkness.

A Conservative Version

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

American Standard Version

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

Amplified


But with an overwhelming flood [of judgment through invading armies]
He will make a complete destruction of its site
And will pursue His enemies into darkness.

Bible in Basic English

But like water overflowing he will take them away; he will put an end to those who come up against him, driving his haters into the dark.

Darby Translation

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

King James 2000

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

Lexham Expanded Bible

But with a rushing torrent he will bring [Nineveh] to an end; he will chase his enemies into darkness.

Modern King James verseion

But with an overflowing flood He will make an utter end of its place, and darkness shall pursue His enemies.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

when the flood runneth over, and destroyeth the place; and when the darkness followeth still upon his enemies.

NET Bible

But with an overwhelming flood he will make a complete end of Nineveh; he will drive his enemies into darkness.

New Heart English Bible

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

The Emphasized Bible

But, with an overflow rolling on, a full end, will he make of them who rise up against him, - and, his foes, will he pursue into darkness.

Webster

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

World English Bible

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

Youngs Literal Translation

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

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
But with an overrunning
עבר 
`abar 
over, pass, through, pass by, go, away, pass on,
Usage: 557

שׁטף שׁטף 
Sheteph 
Usage: 6

he will make

Usage: 0

an utter end
כּלה 
Kalah 
Usage: 20

of the place
מקמה מקומה מקם מקום 
Maqowm 
Usage: 401

חשׁך 
Choshek 
Usage: 78

References

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Context Readings

Destruction Of Nineveh

7 Jehovah is good for a fortress in the day of straits; and he knew those trusting in him. 8 With an inundation passing through he will make a completion of her place, and darkness shall pursue his enemies. 9 What will ye purpose against Jehovah? he made a completion: straits shall not rise up twice.

Cross References

Isaiah 8:22

And they shall look to the earth, and behold, straits and darkness and fainting of distress; and to darkness being removed.

Isaiah 28:17

And I set judgment to the line and justice to the weight: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of falsehood, and the waters shall overflow the covering.

Amos 8:8

For this shall not the land be moved, and all dwelling in it, mourn? And it came up all of it as a river; and it was driven out and watered as the river of Egypt

Job 30:15

Terror turned upon me, it will pursue my willingness as the wind, and my salvation passed away as a cloud.

Proverbs 4:19

The way of the unjust as darkness: they shall not know in what they shall stumble.

Isaiah 8:7-8

And for this, behold Jehovah bringing up upon them the water of the river, strong and many, the king of Assur and his glory: and he came up over all his channels and he went over all his banks.

Jeremiah 13:16

Ye shall give glory to Jehovah your God, before he shall darken, and before your feet shall strike upon the mountains of darkness, and ye waited for light, and he set it for the shadow of death, he will place for gloom.

Ezekiel 13:13

For this, thus said the Lord Jehovah: I rent a spirit of storms in my wrath; and there shall be a violent shower overflowing in mine anger, and stones of hail in my wrath to finish.

Daniel 9:26

And after sixty and two weeks, Messiah shall be cut off, and not for him: and the people of the leader coming shall destroy the city and the holy place; and its end with an overflowing, and even to the end of the war desolations were determined.

Daniel 11:10

And his sons shall gather themselves together, and they collected a multitude of many forces: and he coming, came and overflowed, and through: and he will turn back, and they shall gather themselves together even to his fortress.

Daniel 11:22

And with the arms of an overflowing they shall overflow from his face, and they shall be broken; and also the leader of the covenant.

Daniel 11:40

And in the time of the end the king of the south shall wage war with him: and the king of the north shall rush on like a tempest against him, with chariot and with horsemen, and with many ships; and he came into the lands, and overflowed and passed through.

Amos 9:5-6

And the Lord Jehovah of armies touching upon the land, and it shall melt, and all dwelling in it mourned: and it came up as a river all of it, and it was overflowed as the river of Egypt.

Nahum 1:1

The lifting up of Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite.

Nahum 2:8

And Nineveh it is as a pool of water from the days, and they fleeing, stood: they stood, and none looking back.

Zephaniah 2:13

And he will stretch out his hand against the north, and he will destroy Assur; and he will set Nineveh for a desolation, a dryness as the desert

Matthew 7:27

And the rain descended, and rivers came, and winds blew and struck upon that house, and it fell, and great was its fall.

Matthew 8:12

But the sons of the kingdom shall be cast out into outer darkness; weeping shall be there, and gnashing of teeth.

2 Peter 3:6-7

By which then the world, overflowed with water, perished:

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