Nahum · Bible in Basic English
Nahum 2 Bible in Basic English
Audio: World English Bible (WEB), read by Winfred W. Henson · About the recordings
Nahum is not in PT1904.
1 A crusher has come up before your face: keep a good look-out, let the way be watched, make yourself strong, let your power be greatly increased.
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2 For the Lord will make good the vine of Jacob, as well as the vine of Israel: for the wasters have made them waste and sent destruction on the branches of their vine.
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3 The body-covers of his fighting men have been made red, the men of war are clothed in bright red: the war-carriages are like flames of fire in the day when he gets ready, the horses are shaking.
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4 The war-carriages are rushing through the streets, pushing against one another in the wide ways, looking like burning lights, running like thunder-flames.
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5 He takes the record of his great men: they go falling on their way; they go quickly to the wall, the cover is made ready.
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6 The river doorways are forced open, and the king's house is flowing away.
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7 And the queen is uncovered, she is taken away and her servant-girls are weeping like the sound of doves, hammering on their breasts.
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8 But Nineveh is like a pool of water whose waters are flowing away; Keep your place, they say; but no one is turning back.
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9 Take silver, take gold; for there is no end to the store; take for yourselves a weight of things to be desired.
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10 Everything has been taken from her, all is gone, she has nothing more: the heart is turned to water, the knees are shaking, all are twisted in pain, and colour has gone from all faces.
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11 Where is the lions' hole, the place where the young lions got their food, where the lion and the she-lion were walking with their young, without cause for fear?
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12 Food enough for his young and for his she-lions was pulled down by the lion; his hole was full of flesh and his resting-place stored with meat.
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13 See, I am against you, says the Lord of armies, and I will have your war-carriages burned in the smoke, and your young lions will be food for the sword: you will no longer get your food by force on the earth, and the voice of your she-lions will be stopped for ever.
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Cross references (13)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Joel 3:9–11; 2 Chronicles 25:8; Jeremiah 51:20–23; Jeremiah 51:11–12; Jeremiah 50:23
- 2 Psalm 80:12–13; Ezekiel 37:23; Zephaniah 3:11; Isaiah 60:15; Hosea 10:1
- 3 Ezekiel 23:14–15; Isaiah 63:1–3; Zechariah 1:8; Zechariah 11:2; Zechariah 6:2
- 4 Jeremiah 4:13; Ezekiel 26:10; Nahum 3:2–3; Isaiah 66:15; Daniel 11:40
- 5 Jeremiah 46:12; Jeremiah 51:27–28; Isaiah 21:5; Jeremiah 50:29; Isaiah 5:27
- 6 Isaiah 45:1–2; 2 Peter 3:10–11
- 7 Isaiah 59:11; Isaiah 38:14; Isaiah 32:12; Luke 23:27; Luke 23:48
- 8 Revelation 17:1; Isaiah 47:13; Jeremiah 46:5; Nahum 3:17; Jeremiah 50:16
- 9 Ezekiel 26:12; Daniel 11:8; Jeremiah 25:34; Jeremiah 51:56; Nahum 2:12–13
- 10 Joel 2:6; Daniel 5:6; Psalm 22:14; Jeremiah 30:6; Isaiah 13:7–8
- 11 Isaiah 5:29; Jeremiah 2:15; Zephaniah 3:3; Ezekiel 19:2–8; Job 4:10–11
- 12 Jeremiah 51:34; Isaiah 10:6–14; Psalm 17:12
- 13 Psalm 46:9; Jeremiah 21:13; Nahum 3:5; 2 Kings 19:23; Isaiah 49:24–25
Cross references: OpenBible.info (CC BY), drawn mainly from the public-domain Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. · Sources & licences