(A)Nineveh is like a pool
    whose waters run away.[a]
“Halt! Halt!” they cry,
    but (B)none turns back.

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Footnotes

  1. Nahum 2:8 Compare Septuagint; the meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain

And all who look at you (A)will shrink from you and say,
“Wasted is (B)Nineveh; (C)who will grieve for her?”
    (D)Where shall I seek comforters for you?

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“Arise, go to (A)Nineveh, that (B)great city, and call out against it, (C)for their evil[a] has come up before me.”

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Footnotes

  1. Jonah 1:2 The same Hebrew word can mean evil or disaster, depending on the context; so throughout Jonah

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