Parallel Verses

A Conservative Version

But with an over running flood he will make a full end of her place, and will pursue his enemies into darkness.

New American Standard Bible

But with an overflowing flood
He will make a complete end of its site,
And will pursue His enemies into darkness.

King James Version

But with an overrunning flood he will make an utter end of the place thereof, and darkness shall pursue his enemies.

Holman Bible

But He will completely destroy Nineveh
with an overwhelming flood,
and He will chase His enemies into darkness.

International Standard Version

But with an overwhelming deluge he will bring utter desolation to Nineveh, and his enemies he will pursue with darkness.

American Standard Version

But with an over-running flood he will make a full end of her place, and will pursue his enemies into darkness.

Amplified


But with an overwhelming flood [of judgment through invading armies]
He will make a complete destruction of its site
And will pursue His enemies into darkness.

Bible in Basic English

But like water overflowing he will take them away; he will put an end to those who come up against him, driving his haters into the dark.

Darby Translation

But with an overrunning flood he will make a full end of the place thereof, and darkness shall pursue his enemies.

Julia Smith Translation

With an inundation passing through he will make a completion of her place, and darkness shall pursue his enemies.

King James 2000

But with an overrunning flood he will make an utter end of its place, and darkness shall pursue his enemies.

Lexham Expanded Bible

But with a rushing torrent he will bring [Nineveh] to an end; he will chase his enemies into darkness.

Modern King James verseion

But with an overflowing flood He will make an utter end of its place, and darkness shall pursue His enemies.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

when the flood runneth over, and destroyeth the place; and when the darkness followeth still upon his enemies.

NET Bible

But with an overwhelming flood he will make a complete end of Nineveh; he will drive his enemies into darkness.

New Heart English Bible

But with an overflowing flood, he will make a full end of her place, and will pursue his enemies into darkness.

The Emphasized Bible

But, with an overflow rolling on, a full end, will he make of them who rise up against him, - and, his foes, will he pursue into darkness.

Webster

But with an over-running flood he will make an utter end of the place thereof, and darkness shall pursue his enemies.

World English Bible

But with an overflowing flood, he will make a full end of her place, and will pursue his enemies into darkness.

Youngs Literal Translation

And with a flood passing over, An end He maketh of its place, And His enemies doth darkness pursue.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
But with an overrunning
עבר 
`abar 
over, pass, through, pass by, go, away, pass on,
Usage: 557

שׁטף שׁטף 
Sheteph 
Usage: 6

he will make

Usage: 0

an utter end
כּלה 
Kalah 
Usage: 20

of the place
מקמה מקומה מקם מקום 
Maqowm 
Usage: 401

חשׁך 
Choshek 
Usage: 78

References

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Context Readings

Destruction Of Nineveh

7 LORD is good, a stronghold in the day of trouble, and he knows those who take refuge in him. 8 But with an over running flood he will make a full end of her place, and will pursue his enemies into darkness. 9 What do ye devise against LORD? He will make a full end. Affliction shall not rise up the second time.



Cross References

Isaiah 8:22

And they shall look to the earth, and, behold, distress and darkness, the gloom of anguish, and into thick darkness [to be] driven away.

Isaiah 28:17

And I will make justice the line, and righteousness the plummet. And the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding-place.

Amos 8:8

Shall the land not tremble for this, and everyone mourn who dwells therein? Yea, it shall rise up wholly like the River, and it shall be troubled and sink again like the River of Egypt.

Job 30:15

Terrors are turned upon me. They chase my honor as the wind, and my welfare is passed away as a cloud.

Proverbs 4:19

The way of the wicked is as darkness. They know not at what they stumble.

Isaiah 8:7-8

now therefore, behold, LORD brings up upon them the waters of the River, strong and many, [even] the king of Assyria and all his glory. And it shall come up over all its channels, and go over all its banks,

Jeremiah 13:16

Give glory to LORD your God, before he causes darkness, and before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains. And, while ye look for light, he turns it into the shadow of death, and makes it gross darkness.

Ezekiel 13:13

Therefore thus says lord LORD: I will even rend it with a stormy wind in my wrath, and there shall be an overflowing shower in my anger, and great hailstones in wrath to consume it.

Daniel 9:26

And after the sixty-two weeks the anointed one shall be cut off, and shall have nothing. And the people of the prince who shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary, and the end of it shall be with a flood. And even to the

Daniel 11:10

And his sons shall war, and shall assemble a multitude of great forces, which shall come on, and overflow, and pass through. And they shall return and war, even to his fortress.

Daniel 11:22

And the overwhelming forces shall be overwhelmed from before him, and shall be broken, yea, also the ruler of the covenant.

Daniel 11:40

And at the time of the end, the king of the south shall contend with 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 shall enter into the countri

Amos 9:5-6

For the Lord, LORD of hosts, [is] he who touches the land and it melts, and all who dwell therein shall mourn. And it shall rise up wholly like the River, and shall sink again like the River of Egypt.

Nahum 1:1

The burden of Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite.

Nahum 2:8

But Nineveh has been from of old like a pool of water. Yet they flee away. Stand, stand, [they cry], but none looks back.

Zephaniah 2:13

And he will stretch out his hand against the north, and destroy Assyria, and will make Nineveh a desolation, and dry like the wilderness.

Matthew 7:27

And the rain descended, and the torrents came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house, and it fell. And great was the fall of it.

Matthew 8:12

but the sons of the kingdom will be cast out into the outer darkness. There will be the weeping and the gnashing of teeth.

2 Peter 3:6-7

by which the world then perished, having been overflowed with water.

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