Nahum 2:7

Nahum chapter 2 · verse 7 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

World English Bible · 2000

And it is decreed: she is uncovered, she is carried away; and her handmaids moan as with the voice of doves, beating upon their breasts.

King James Version · 1611

And Huzzab shall be led away captive, she shall be brought up, and her maids shall lead her as with the voice of doves, tabering upon their breasts.

American Standard Version · 1901

And it is decreed: she is uncovered, she is carried away; and her handmaids moan as with the voice of doves, beating upon their breasts.

v.6The gates of the rivers are opened, and the palace is dissolved.

v.7This passage

v.8But Nineveh hath been from of old like a pool of water: yet they flee away. Stand, stand, they cry; but none looketh back.

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

Isaiah 38:14
Like a swallowora crane, so did I chatter; I did moan as a dove; mine eyes fail with looking upward: O Lord, I am oppressed, be thou my surety.
Luke 23:48
And all the multitudes that came together to this sight, when they beheld the things that were done, returned smiting their breasts.
Isaiah 59:11
We roar all like bears, and moan sore like doves: we look for justice, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far off from us.
Luke 23:27
And there followed him a great multitude of the people, and of women who bewailed and lamented him.
Isaiah 32:12
They shall smite upon the breasts for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine.