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

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    but with an overwhelming flood(A)
he will make an end of Nineveh;
    he will pursue his foes into the realm of darkness.

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What do ye imagine against the Lord? he will make an utter end: affliction shall not rise up the second time.

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Whatever they plot(A) against the Lord
    he will bring[a] to an end;
    trouble will not come a second time.

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Footnotes

  1. Nahum 1:9 Or What do you foes plot against the Lord? / He will bring it

And he shall pass through Judah; he shall overflow and go over, he shall reach even to the neck; and the stretching out of his wings shall fill the breadth of thy land, O Immanuel.

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and sweep on into Judah, swirling over it,(A)
    passing through it and reaching up to the neck.
Its outspread wings(B) will cover the breadth of your land,
    Immanuel[a]!”(C)

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 8:8 Immanuel means God with us.

23 For the Lord God of hosts shall make a consumption, even determined, in the midst of all the land.

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23 The Lord, the Lord Almighty, will carry out
    the destruction decreed(A) upon the whole land.(B)

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