Nineveh is of old; a very ancient city, of great renown and strength. Like a pool of water; very populous, like a pool of water which hath been long breeding of fish, and is full of them. Yet they, yet these multitudes, shall not be a safety or protection to Nineveh, they shall flee away discomfited and terrified. Stand, stand; as officers call to fleeing soldiers, and it is doubled to show the earnestness of the commanders desiring the soldier to stand and fight. Shall they cry; the chieftains, and most valiant among the Ninevites. But none shall look back; a panic fear shall so possess them, that none of them shall dare to turn again, nor to look back upon the enemy.
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Nahum 2:8
8 But Nineveh is of olde like a pool of water: yet they shall flee away. Stand, stand, shall they cry; but none shall look back.