Parallel Verses
Youngs Literal Translation
And with a flood passing over, An end He maketh of its place, And His enemies doth darkness pursue.
New American Standard Bible
He will make a complete end of
And will pursue His enemies into
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
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
He will make a complete destruction of
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.
Julia Smith Translation
With an inundation passing through he will make a completion of her place, 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.
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Nahum 1:8
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Context Readings
Destruction Of Nineveh
7 Good is Jehovah for a strong place in a day of distress. And He knoweth those trusting in Him. 8 And with a flood passing over, An end He maketh of its place, And His enemies doth darkness pursue. 9 What do we devise against Jehovah? An end He is making, arise not twice doth distress.
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Isaiah 8:22
And unto the land it looketh attentively, And lo, adversity and darkness! -- Dimness, distress, and thick darkness is driven away, But not the dimness for which she is in distress!
Isaiah 28:17
And I have put judgment for a line, And righteousness for a plummet, And sweep away doth hail the refuge of lies, And the secret hiding-place do waters overflow.
Amos 8:8
For this doth not the land tremble, And mourned hath every dweller in it? And come up as a flood hath all of it. And it hath been cast out, and hath sunk, Like the flood of Egypt.
Job 30:15
He hath turned against me terrors, It pursueth as the wind mine abundance, And as a thick cloud, Hath my safety passed away.
Proverbs 4:19
The way of the wicked is as darkness, They have not known at what they stumble.
Isaiah 8:7-8
Therefore, lo, the Lord is bringing up on them, The waters of the river, the mighty and the great, (The king of Asshur, and all his glory,) And it hath gone up over all its streams, And hath gone on over all its banks.
Jeremiah 13:16
Give ye to Jehovah your God honour, Before He doth cause darkness, And before your feet stumble on dark mountains, And ye have waited for light, And He hath made it for death-shade, And hath appointed it for thick darkness.
Ezekiel 13:13
Therefore, thus said the Lord Jehovah: I have rent with a tempestuous wind in My fury, And an overflowing shower is in Mine anger, And hailstones in My fury -- to consume.
Daniel 9:26
And after the sixty and two weeks, cut off is Messiah, and the city and the holy place are not his, the Leader who hath come doth destroy the people; and its end is with a flood, and till the end is war, determined are desolations.
Daniel 11:10
and his sons stir themselves up, and have gathered a multitude of great forces, and he hath certainly come in, and overflowed, and passed through, and he turneth back, and they stir themselves up unto his stronghold.
Daniel 11:22
And the arms of the flood are overflowed from before him, and are broken; and also the leader of the covenant.
Daniel 11:40
'And at the time of the end, push himself forward with him doth a king of the south, and storm against him doth a king of the north, with chariot, and with horsemen, and with many ships; and he hath come in to the lands, and hath overflowed, and passed over,
Amos 9:5-6
And it is the Lord, Jehovah of Hosts, Who is striking against the land, and it melteth, And mourned have all the inhabitants in it, And come up as a flood hath all of it, And it hath sunk -- like the flood of Egypt.
Nahum 1:1
Burden of Nineveh. The Book of the Vision of Nahum the Elkoshite.
Nahum 2:8
And Nineveh is as a pool of waters, From of old it is -- and they are fleeing! 'Stand ye, stand;' and none is turning!
Zephaniah 2:13
And He stretcheth His hand against the north, And doth destroy Asshur, And he setteth Nineveh for a desolation, A dry land like a wilderness.
Matthew 7:27
and the rain did descend, and the streams came, and the winds blew, and they beat on that house, and it fell, and its fall was great.'
Matthew 8:12
but the sons of the reign shall be cast forth to the outer darkness -- there shall be the weeping and the gnashing of the teeth.'
2 Peter 3:6-7
through which the then world, by water having been deluged, was destroyed;