Parallel Bible results for "nahum 2:8"

Nahum 2:8

Wycliffe WYC

8 And Nineveh, as a cistern of waters the waters thereof; forsooth they fled; Stand ye, stand ye, (they cried,) and there is not that shall turn again. (And so Nineveh was made like a water cistern, yea, like its water, as it fled away; Stand ye! stand ye in your place! they cried; but there was no one who turned back.)

New International Version NIV

8 Nineveh is like a pool whose water is draining away. “Stop! Stop!” they cry, but no one turns back.