Nahum 3:8
Are you better than No-amon, seated on the Nile streams, with waters all round her; whose wall was the sea and her earthwork the waters?
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Nahum 3:8
Are you better than No-amon, seated on the Nile streams, with waters all round her; whose wall was the sea and her earthwork the waters?
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Nahum 3:9
Ethiopia was her strength and Egyptians without number; Put and Lubim were her helpers.
Nahum 3:10
But even she has been taken away, she has gone away as a prisoner: even her young children are smashed to bits at the top of all the streets: the fate of her honoured men is put to the decision of chance, and all her great men are put in chains.
Nahum 3:11
And you will be overcome with wine, you will become feeble; you will be looking for a safe place from those who are fighting against you.
Isaiah 20:4
So will the king of Assyria take away the prisoners of Egypt and those forced out of Ethiopia, young and old, unclothed and without shoes, and with backs uncovered, to the shame of Egypt.
Habakkuk 2:12
A curse on him who is building a place with blood, and basing a town on evil-doing!
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Ezekiel 30:14
And I will make Pathros a waste, and put a fire in Zoan, and send my punishments on No.
Ezekiel 30:15
I will let loose my wrath on Sin, the strong place of Egypt, cutting off the mass of the people of No.
Ezekiel 30:16
And I will put a fire in Egypt; Syene will be twisting in pain, and No will be broken into, as by the onrush of waters.
Jeremiah 46:25
The Lord of armies, the God of Israel, has said: See, I will send punishment on Amon of No and on Pharaoh and on those who put their faith in him;
Jeremiah 46:26
And I will give them up into the hands of those who will take their lives, and into the hands of Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, and into the hands of his servants: and later, it will be peopled as in the past, says the Lord.
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Isaiah 19:5
And the waters of the sea will be cut off, and the river will become dry and waste:
Isaiah 19:6
And the rivers will have an evil smell; the stream of Egypt will become small and dry: all the water-plants will come to nothing.
Isaiah 19:7
The grass-lands by the Nile, and everything planted by the Nile, will become dry, or taken away by the wind, and will come to an end.
Isaiah 19:8
The fishermen will be sad, and all those who put fishing-lines into the Nile will be full of grief, and those whose nets are stretched out on the waters will have sorrow in their hearts.
Isaiah 27:1
In that day the Lord, with his great and strong and cruel sword, will send punishment on Leviathan, the quick-moving snake, and on Leviathan, the twisted snake; and he will put to death the dragon which is in the sea.
Job 41:31
The deep is boiling like a pot of spices, and the sea like a perfume-vessel.
Isaiah 18:2
Which sends its representatives by the sea, even in ships of papyrus on the waters. Go back quickly, O representatives, to a nation tall and smooth, to a people causing fear through all their history; a strong nation, crushing down its haters, whose land is cut through by rivers.
Isaiah 33:21
But there the Lord will be with us in his glory, ...wide rivers and streams; where no boat will go with blades, and no fair ship will be sailing.
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Amos 6:2
Go on to Calneh and see; and from there go to Hamath the great; then go down to Gath of the Philistines: are you better than these kingdoms? or is your land wider than theirs?
Ezekiel 31:2
Son of man, say to Pharaoh, king of Egypt, and to his people; Whom are you like in your great power?
Ezekiel 31:3
See, a pine-tree with beautiful branches and thick growth, giving shade and very tall; and its top was among the clouds.
Nahum 3:7
And it will come about that all who see you will go in flight from you and say, Nineveh is made waste: who will be weeping for her? where am I to get comforters for her?
Nahum 3:5
See, I am against you, says the Lord of armies, and I will have your skirts pulled over your face, and let the nations see you unclothed, and the kingdoms your shame.
Nahum 3:12
All your walled places will be like fig-trees and your people like the first figs, falling at a shake into the mouth which is open for them.
Nahum 3:13
See, the people who are in you are women; the doorways of your land are wide open to your attackers: the locks of your doors have been burned away in the fire.
Nahum 3:14
Get water for the time when you are shut in, make strong your towns: go into the potter's earth, stamping it down with your feet, make strong the brickworks.
Nahum 3:15
There the fire will make you waste; you will be cut off by the sword: make yourself as great in number as the worms, as great in number as the locusts.
Nahum 3:16
Let your traders be increased more than the stars of heaven:
Nahum 3:17
Your crowned ones are like the locusts, and your scribes like the clouds of insects which take cover in the walls on a cold day, but when the sun comes up they go in flight, and are seen no longer in their place.
Nahum 3:18
Sorrow! how are the keepers of your flock sleeping, O king of Assyria! your strong men are at rest; your people are wandering on the mountains, and there is no one to get them together.
Nahum 3:19
Your pain may not be made better; you are wounded to death: all those hearing the news about you will be waving their hands in joy over you: for who has not undergone the weight of your evil-doing again and again?
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Exodus 14:22
And the children of Israel went through the sea on dry land: and the waters were a wall on their right side and on their left.
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Psalms 33:17
A horse is a false hope; his great power will not make any man free from danger.
Proverbs 21:30
Wisdom and knowledge and wise suggestions are of no use against the Lord.
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Proverbs 8:30
Then I was by his side, as a master workman: and I was his delight from day to day, playing before him at all times;
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