Nahum 1:8

Nahum 1:8 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)But with an overrunning flood he will make an utter end of the place thereof, and darkness shall pursue his enemies.
• New International Version (NIV)but with an overwhelming flood he will make an end of Nineveh; he will pursue his foes into the realm of darkness.
• English Standard Version (ESV)But with an overflowing flood he will make a complete end of the adversaries, and will pursue his enemies into darkness.
• New King James Version (NKJV)But with an overflowing flood He will make an utter end of its place, And darkness will pursue His enemies.

Context of Nahum 1:8

6Who can stand before His indignation? Who can endure the burning of His anger? His wrath is poured out like fire And the rocks are broken up by Him. 7The Lord is good, A stronghold in the day of trouble, And He knows those who take refuge in Him. But with an overflowing flood He will make a complete end of its site, And will pursue His enemies into darkness. 9Whatever you devise against the Lord, He will make a complete end of it. Distress will not rise up twice. 10Like tangled thorns, And like those who are drunken with their drink, They are consumed As stubble completely withered.

Nahum 1:8 word by word

וּבְשֶׁ֣טֶף עֹבֵ֔ר כָּלָ֖ה יַעֲשֶׂ֣ה מְקוֹמָ֑הּ וְאֹיְבָ֖יו יְרַדֶּף־חֹֽשֶׁךְ׃Read the interlinear

• overflowingעָבַר‛âbar · to passH5674
• floodשֶׁ֫טֶףsheţeph shêţeph · floodH7858
• He will makeעָשָׂה‛âώâh · to makeH6213
• a completeכָּלָהkâlâh · consumptionH3617
• its siteמָקוֹםmâqôm mâqôm meqômâh meqômâh · placeH4725
• And will pursueרָדַףrâdaph · to pursueH7291
• His enemiesאָיַב'âyab · be hostileH340
• darknessחֹ֫שֶׁךְchôshek · darknessH2822

Cross-references for Nahum 1:8

• Isaiah 8:7Now therefore, behold, the Lord is about to bring on them the strong and abundant waters of the Euphrates, Even the king of Assyria and all his glory; And it will rise up over all its channels and go over all its banks.
• Isaiah 28:17I will make justice the measuring line And righteousness the level; Then hail will sweep away the refuge of lies And the waters will overflow the secret place.
• Ezekiel 13:13Therefore, thus says the Lord God, “I will make a violent wind break out in My wrath. There will also be in My anger a flooding rain and hailstones to consume it in wrath.
• Daniel 9:26Then after the sixty-two weeks the Messiah will be cut off and have nothing, and the people of the prince who is to come will destroy the city and the sanctuary. And its end will come with a flood; even to the end there will be war; desolations are determined.
• Daniel 11:10“His sons will mobilize and assemble a multitude of great forces; and one of them will keep on coming and overflow and pass through, that he may again wage war up to his very fortress.
• Amos 8:8Because of this will not the land quake And everyone who dwells in it mourn? Indeed, all of it will rise up like the Nile, And it will be tossed about And subside like the Nile of Egypt.
• Amos 9:5The Lord God of hosts, The One who touches the land so that it melts, And all those who dwell in it mourn, And all of it rises up like the Nile And subsides like the Nile of Egypt;
• Matthew 7:27The rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and slammed against that house; and it fell--and great was its fall.”
• 2 Peter 3:6through which the world at that time was destroyed, being flooded with water.
• Nahum 1:1The oracle of Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite.
• Nahum 2:8Though Nineveh was like a pool of water throughout her days, Now they are fleeing; “Stop, stop,” But no one turns back.
• Zephaniah 2:13And He will stretch out His hand against the north And destroy Assyria, And He will make Nineveh a desolation, Parched like the wilderness.
• Job 30:15Terrors are turned against me; They pursue my honor as the wind, And my prosperity has passed away like a cloud.
• Proverbs 4:19The way of the wicked is like darkness; They do not know over what they stumble.
• Isaiah 8:22Then they will look to the earth, and behold, distress and darkness, the gloom of anguish; and they will be driven away into darkness.
• Jeremiah 13:16Give glory to the Lord your God, Before He brings darkness And before your feet stumble On the dusky mountains, And while you are hoping for light He makes it into deep darkness, And turns it into gloom.

Commentaries on Nahum 1:8

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 8But with an overrunning flood - Bishop Newcome thinks this may refer to the manner in which Nineveh was taken. The Euphrates overflowed its banks, deluged a part of the city, and overturned twenty stadia of the wall; in consequence of which the desponding king burnt himself, and his palace, with his treasures. - Diodor. Sic., Edit. Wessel., p. 140, lib. ii., s. 27. Darkness shall pursue - Calamity. All kinds of calamity shall pursue them till they are…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 8overwhelming flood: This is a metaphor for the strong nature of God's judgment (see Nahum 2:6).Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 88. with an overrunning flood--that is, with irresistible might which overruns every barrier like a flood. This image is often applied to overwhelming armies of invaders. Also of calamity in general (Psa 32:6; 42:7; 90:5). There is, perhaps, a special allusion to the mode of Nineveh's capture by the Medo-Babylonian army; namely, through a flood in the river which broke down the wall twenty furlongs (see on Na 2:6; Is 8:8; Da 9:26; 11:10, 22, 40). end of…Read the comment

Topics related to Nahum 1:8

• Wicked (People)

In the dictionaries

• Adversary
• Media
• Vengeance
• Job, Book of
• Nahum; the Book of
• Nineveh

Commentaries on Nahum 1

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings