Nahum 2:8
King James VersionSource notes
“But Nineveh is of old like a pool of water: yet they shall flee away. Stand, stand, but none shall look back.”
Context
5He shall recount his worthies: they shall stumble in their walk; they shall make haste to the wall thereof, and the defence shall be prepared.
6The gates of the rivers shall be opened, and the palace shall be dissolved.
7And Huzzab shall be led away captive, she shall be brought up, and her maids shall lead as with the voice of doves, tabering upon their breasts.
8But Nineveh is of old like a pool of water: yet they shall flee away. Stand, stand, but none shall look back.
9Take ye the spoil of silver, take the spoil of gold: for none end of the store glory out of all the pleasant furniture.
10She is empty, and void, and waste: and the heart melteth, and the knees smite together, and much pain in all loins, and the faces of them all gather blackness.
11Where the dwelling of the lions, and the feeding place of the young lions, where the lion, the old lion, walked, the lion’s whelp, and none made afraid?