Nahúm 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.
Context
This verse from Nahúm Chapter 2 connects to 10 cross-references. La caída de Nínive se describe con vívidos detalles bélicos: los escudos rojos, los carros furiosos, los jinetes alzados, los cuerpos amontonados. La ciudad que fue como una piscina cuyas aguas se escurren es objeto de burla: '¡Nínive está destruida!' …
Otras traducciones
But Nineveh hath been from of old like a pool of water: yet they flee away. Stand, stand, they cry; but none looketh back.
And Nineveh <FI>is<Fi> as a pool of waters, From of old it <FI>is<Fi> --and they are fleeing! `Stand ye, stand;' and none is turning!
But Nineveh is like a pool of water whose waters are flowing away; Keep your place, they say; but no one is turning back.
Referencias cruzadas
Out of that land went forth Asshur, and builded Nineveh, and the city Rehoboth, and Calah,
And it shall be as the chased roe, and as a sheep that no man taketh up: they shall every …
Thou art wearied in the multitude of thy counsels. Let now the astrologers, the stargazers, the monthly prognosticators, stand up, …
Go ye forth of Babylon, flee ye from the Chaldeans, with a voice of singing declare ye, tell this, utter …
Wherefore have I seen them dismayed and turned away back? and their mighty ones are beaten down, and are fled …
Cut off the sower from Babylon, and him that handleth the sickle in the time of harvest: for fear of …
O thou that dwellest upon many waters, abundant in treasures, thine end is come, and the measure of thy covetousness.
The mighty men of Babylon have forborn to fight, they have remained in their holds: their might hath failed; they …
Thy crowned are as the locusts, and thy captains as the great grasshoppers, which camp in the hedges in the …
And there came one of the seven angels which had the seven vials, and talked with me, saying unto me, …