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Douay-Rheims
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And as for Ninive, her waters are like a great pool: but the men flee away. They cry: Stand, stand, but there is none that will return back.
King James
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But Nineveh is of old like a pool of water: yet they shall flee away. Stand, stand, shall they cry; but none shall look back.
Louis Second
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(2:9) Ninive était jadis comme un réservoir plein d'eau.... Les voilà qui fuient.... Arrêtez! arrêtez!... Mais nul ne se retourne...
Martin Luther
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Denn Ninive ist wie ein Teich voll Wassers; aber dasselbige wird verfließen müssen. Stehet, stehet! (werden sie rufen); aber da wird sich niemand umwenden.
Vulgate
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et Nineve quasi piscina aquarum aquae eius ipsi vero fugerunt state state et non est qui revertatur

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary


quasi : as if, just as, just as if, as it were /a sort of.
vero : in truth, indeed, to be sure /however.
non : not.
qui : quae : que : quod : which, what, that.
qui : (masc. pl. nom.) Let THOSE (men) WHO have eyes to see..
qui : (masc. neut. nom.) (the prince) WHO loved a milkmaid.
qui : (question) how? in what way? / somehow / wherewith.