Nahum 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 Nahum Chapter 2 connects to 10 cross-references. Vivid description of the attack on Nineveh: a scatterer has come against you, woman, your face is drained of color. The shields of the mighty are red; the city gates are opened; the flood sweeps the palace. The lion's den …
תרגומים נוספים
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.
הפניות צולבות
Go ye forth of Babylon, flee ye from the Chaldeans, with a voice of singing declare ye, tell this, utter …
Thou art wearied in the multitude of thy counsels. Let now the astrologers, the stargazers, the monthly prognosticators, stand up, …
And it shall be as the chased roe, and as a sheep that no man taketh up: they shall every …
The mighty men of Babylon have forborn to fight, they have remained in their holds: their might hath failed; they …
O thou that dwellest upon many waters, abundant in treasures, thine end is come, and the measure of thy covetousness.
Cut off the sower from Babylon, and him that handleth the sickle in the time of harvest: for fear of …
Wherefore have I seen them dismayed and turned away back? and their mighty ones are beaten down, and are fled …
And he saith unto me, The waters which thou sawest, where the whore sitteth, are peoples, and multitudes, and nations, …
And there came one of the seven angels which had the seven vials, and talked with me, saying unto me, …
Out of that land went forth Asshur, and builded Nineveh, and the city Rehoboth, and Calah,