Nahum 1:8
But with an overrunning flood he will make an utter end of the place thereof, and darkness shall pursue his enemies.
KJV
Et in diluvio prætereunte consummationem faciet loci ejus, et inimicos ejus persequentur tenebræ.
Vulgate
καὶ ἐν κατακλυσμῷ πορείας συντέλειαν ποιήσεται, τοὺς ἐπεγειρομένους καὶ τοὺς ἐχθροὺς αὐτοῦ διώξεται σκότος.
LXX
But with an over-running flood he will make a full end of her place, and will pursue his enemies into darkness.
ASV
וּ/בְ/שֶׁ֣טֶף עֹבֵ֔ר כָּלָ֖ה יַעֲשֶׂ֣ה מְקוֹמָ֑/הּ וְ/אֹיְבָ֖י/ו יְרַדֶּף חֹֽשֶׁךְ
Hebrew
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In the original Hebrew
8 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.
וֹ
v
noun · 398×
חֹ֔שֶׁךְ
chshk
noun · 80×
י
y
verb · 282×
יַּ֥עַשׂ
y'sh
verb · 2621×
כָּלָ֖ה
klh
noun · 21×
ם
m
verb · 144×
עֹבֵ֣ר
'br
verb · 561×
שֶׁ֣טֶף
shtp
noun · 6×
Themes
Prophecy
Historic Christian voices
3 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Cross-references
- 2Pet 3:6 — Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished:
- Amos 8:8 — Shall not the land tremble for this, and every one mourn that dwelleth therein? and it shall rise up wholly as a flood; and it shall be cast out and drowned, as by the flood of Egypt.
- Amos 9:5 — And the Lord GOD of hosts is he that toucheth the land, and it shall melt, and all that dwell therein shall mourn: and it shall rise up wholly like a flood; and shall be drowned, as by the flood of Eg
- Dan 9:26 — And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be wi
- Dan 9:26 — And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be wi
- Dan 11:22 — And with the arms of a flood shall they be overflown from before him, and shall be broken; yea, also the prince of the covenant.
- Dan 11:40 — And at the time of the end shall the king of the south push at him: and the king of the north shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships; and he sha
- Ezek 13:13 — Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; I will even rend it with a stormy wind in my fury; and there shall be an overflowing shower in mine anger, and great hailstones in my fury to consume it.
- Heb 10:27 — But a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries.
- Isa 8:7 — Now therefore, behold, the Lord bringeth up upon them the waters of the river, strong and many, even the king of Assyria, and all his glory: and he shall come up over all his channels, and go over all
- Isa 8:22 — And they shall look unto the earth; and behold trouble and darkness, dimness of anguish; and they shall be driven to darkness.
- Isa 28:2 — Behold, the Lord hath a mighty and strong one, which as a tempest of hail and a destroying storm, as a flood of mighty waters overflowing, shall cast down to the earth with the hand.
- Isa 28:17 — Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place.
- Isa 45:7 — I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.
- Jer 13:16 — Give glory to the LORD your God, before he cause darkness, and before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains, and, while ye look for light, he turn it into the shadow of death, and make it gross da
- Jer 30:16 — Therefore all they that devour thee shall be devoured; and all thine adversaries, every one of them, shall go into captivity; and they that spoil thee shall be a spoil, and all that prey upon thee wil
- Jer 51:64 — And thou shalt say, Thus shall Babylon sink, and shall not rise from the evil that I will bring upon her: and they shall be weary. Thus far are the words of Jeremiah.
- Job 30:15 — Terrors are turned upon me: they pursue my soul as the wind: and my welfare passeth away as a cloud.
- Luke 6:48 — He is like a man which built an house, and digged deep, and laid the foundation on a rock: and when the flood arose, the stream beat vehemently upon that house, and could not shake it: for it was foun
- Luke 19:27 — But those mine enemies, which would not that I should reign over them, bring hither, and slay them before me.
- Matt 7:27 — And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall of it.
- Matt 8:12 — But the children of the kingdom shall be cast out into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
- Nah 1:1 — The burden of Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite.
- Nah 2:8 — 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.
- Prov 4:19 — The way of the wicked is as darkness: they know not at what they stumble.
- Zeph 2:13 — And he will stretch out his hand against the north, and destroy Assyria; and will make Nineveh a desolation, and dry like a wilderness.