Nahum 3:14

Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

Draw water for the siege, strengthen your fortresses. Go into the clay and tread the mortar; take hold of the brick mold.

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Other Translations

  • King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

    Draw thee waters for the siege, fortify thy strong holds: go into clay, and tread the morter, make strong the brickkiln.

  • KJV1611 – Modern English

    Draw water for the siege, fortify your strongholds: go into clay and tread the mortar, make strong the brick kiln.

  • King James Version 1611 (Original)

    Draw thee waters for the siege, fortify thy strong holds: go into clay, and tread the morter, make strong the brickkiln.

  • American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

    Draw{H7579} thee water{H4325} for the siege;{H4692} strengthen{H2388} thy fortresses;{H4013} go{H935} into the clay,{H2916} and tread{H7429} the mortar;{H2563} make strong{H2388} the brickkiln.{H4404}

  • King James Version with Strong's Numbers

    Draw{H7579}{(H8798)} thee waters{H4325} for the siege{H4692}, fortify{H2388}{(H8761)} thy strong holds{H4013}: go{H935}{(H8798)} into clay{H2916}, and tread{H7429}{(H8798)} the morter{H2563}, make strong{H2388}{(H8685)} the brickkiln{H4404}.

  • Coverdale Bible (1535)

    Drawe water now agaynst thou be beseged, make vp thy stroge holdes, go into the claye, tempre the morter, make stronge bricke:

  • Geneva Bible (1560)

    Drawe thee waters for the siege: fortifie thy strong holdes: go into the clay, and temper the morter: make strong bricke.

  • Bishops' Bible (1568)

    Drawe thee water for the siege, strengthen thy fortes, go into the clay, treade the morter, make strong the brickyll.

  • Authorized King James Version (1611)

    Draw thee waters for the siege, fortify thy strong holds: go into clay, and tread the morter, make strong the brickkiln.

  • Webster's Bible (1833)

    Draw water for the siege. Strengthen your fortresses. Go into the clay, and tread the mortar. Make the brick kiln strong.

  • Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

    Waters of a siege draw for thyself, Strengthen thy fortresses, Enter into mire, and tread on clay, Make strong a brick-kiln.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    Draw thee water for the siege; strengthen thy fortresses; go into the clay, and tread the mortar; make strong the brickkiln.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    Draw thee water for the siege; strengthen thy fortresses; go into the clay, and tread the mortar; make strong the brickkiln.

  • Bible in Basic English (1941)

    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.

  • World English Bible (2000)

    Draw water for the siege. Strengthen your fortresses. Go into the clay, and tread the mortar. Make the brick kiln strong.

  • NET Bible® (New English Translation)

    Draw yourselves water for a siege! Strengthen your fortifications! Trample the mud and tread the clay! Make mud bricks to strengthen your walls!

Referenced Verses

  • Nah 2:1 : 1 See, on the mountains, the feet of the one who brings good news, who proclaims peace! Celebrate your festivals, Judah, and fulfill your vows, for the wicked one will never again pass through you; he is completely cut off.
  • 2 Chr 32:3-4 : 3 he consulted with his officials and warriors to stop the flow of the springs that were outside the city, and they supported him. 4 A large number of people gathered together, and they stopped up all the springs and the stream that flowed through the land, saying, "Why should the kings of Assyria come and find plenty of water?"
  • 2 Chr 32:11 : 11 Isn't Hezekiah misleading you, leaving you to die by famine and thirst, by saying, 'The LORD our God will deliver us from the hand of the king of Assyria'?
  • Isa 8:9 : 9 Be shattered, you nations, and be terrified! Listen, all you distant lands. Prepare for battle and be terrified; prepare for battle and be shattered.
  • Isa 22:9-9 : 9 You saw the breaches in the city of David were many, and you gathered together water from the lower pool. 10 You counted the houses of Jerusalem and tore down houses to fortify the wall. 11 You made a reservoir between the walls for the water of the old pool, but you did not look to its Maker, nor did you regard the One who formed it long ago.
  • Isa 37:25 : 25 I dug wells and drank water; with the soles of my feet, I dried up all the rivers of Egypt.
  • Jer 46:3-4 : 3 Prepare your shields, both small and large, and march out for battle! 4 Harness the horses, and mount the riders! Take your positions with helmets on! Polish the spears, and put on your armor!
  • Jer 46:9 : 9 Charge, you horses! Drive furiously, you charioteers! Let the warriors march out—Cush and Put, wielding shields, and the Ludim, skilled in using the bow.
  • Joel 3:9-9 : 9 Proclaim this among the nations: Prepare for war! Arouse the warriors! Let all the fighting men draw near and advance. 10 Hammer your plowshares into swords and your pruning hooks into spears. Let the weak say, ‘I am strong!’ 11 Hasten and come, all you nations from every side, and gather yourselves there. Bring down, LORD, your mighty ones.

Similar Verses (AI)

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    3 verses
    80%

    11 You too will become drunk; you will go into hiding. You too will seek refuge from the enemy.

    12 All your fortresses are like fig trees with the first ripe fruit; when they are shaken, they fall into the mouth of the eater.

    13 Look, your people are like women within you. The gates of your land are wide open to your enemies, and fire has consumed your bars.

  • Ezek 4:1-3
    3 verses
    78%

    1 Now, you, son of man, take a brick and set it before you; then inscribe on it the city of Jerusalem.

    2 Build siege works against it, construct a ramp, set up camps around it, and place battering rams against it all around.

    3 Then take an iron plate and place it as an iron wall between yourself and the city. Set your face against it, besiege it, and let it be under siege. This will be a sign for the house of Israel.

  • Nah 3:15
    78%

    15 There the fire will devour you; the sword will cut you down. It will consume you like the young locusts. Multiply yourselves like locusts; increase yourselves like swarming locusts.

  • Nah 2:1
    76%

    1 See, on the mountains, the feet of the one who brings good news, who proclaims peace! Celebrate your festivals, Judah, and fulfill your vows, for the wicked one will never again pass through you; he is completely cut off.

  • Jer 10:17
    75%

    17 Gather up your belongings from the land, you who live under siege.

  • Jer 1:18
    75%

    18 Today I have made you a fortified city, an iron pillar, and bronze walls to stand against the whole land—against the kings of Judah, its officials, its priests, and the people of the land.

  • Ezek 26:8-9
    2 verses
    75%

    8 'Your villages in the countryside will be killed by the sword, and he will build siege walls against you, raise a siege ramp against you, and set up a shield wall against you.'

    9 'He will direct the blows of his battering rams against your walls, and he will demolish your towers with his weapons.'

  • Joel 3:9-10
    2 verses
    74%

    9 Proclaim this among the nations: Prepare for war! Arouse the warriors! Let all the fighting men draw near and advance.

    10 Hammer your plowshares into swords and your pruning hooks into spears. Let the weak say, ‘I am strong!’

  • 2 Kgs 3:19
    73%

    19 You will destroy every fortified city and every major town, cut down every good tree, stop up all the springs, and ruin every good field with stones.

  • Isa 29:3
    72%

    3 I will encamp in a circle against you, I will besiege you with towers, and I will raise siegeworks against you.

  • Gen 11:3
    72%

    3 They said to each other, "Come, let us make bricks and bake them thoroughly." They had brick for stone and tar for mortar.

  • Isa 37:25-26
    2 verses
    72%

    25 I dug wells and drank water; with the soles of my feet, I dried up all the rivers of Egypt.

    26 Have you not heard? From long ago, I planned it; from ancient times, I designed it. Now I have brought it to pass, that you should turn fortified cities into heaps of ruins.

  • Isa 25:12
    72%

    12 He will demolish the high fortress of your walls, bring it down to the ground, to the very dust.

  • Ezek 26:12
    72%

    12 'They will plunder your wealth and loot your merchandise. They will break down your walls and destroy your luxurious homes. They will throw your stones, timber, and rubble into the sea.'

  • Isa 62:10
    72%

    10 Pass through, pass through the gates! Clear the way for the people. Build up, build up the highway; remove the stones. Raise a banner for the nations!

  • Jer 46:3
    71%

    3 Prepare your shields, both small and large, and march out for battle!

  • Nah 2:5
    71%

    5 The chariots race wildly through the streets; they rush back and forth in the squares. Their appearance is like torches, and they dart about like lightning.

  • Ezek 12:5
    71%

    5 In their sight, dig through the wall and carry your belongings through it.

  • Amos 4:3
    71%

    3 You will go out through breaches in the wall, each woman straight ahead, and you will be cast out toward Harmon,' declares the LORD.

  • Jer 43:9
    71%

    9 Take some large stones in your hands, and set them in mortar in the brick pavement at the entrance to Pharaoh's palace in Tahpanhes, in the sight of the men of Judah.

  • 2 Kgs 19:24-25
    2 verses
    71%

    24 I have dug wells in foreign lands and drunk water there. With the soles of my feet, I have dried up all the streams of Egypt.

    25 Have you not heard? Long ago I ordained it; in days of old I planned it. Now I have brought it to pass, that you have turned fortified cities into piles of rubble.

  • Isa 2:15
    71%

    15 It will come against every high tower and every fortified wall.

  • Ezek 13:11-12
    2 verses
    71%

    11 say to those who plaster it with whitewash that it will fall. There will be a flooding rain, hailstones will fall, and a stormy wind will break it.

    12 When the wall falls, people will ask you, ‘Where is the whitewash you applied?’

  • Amos 5:9
    71%

    9 He flashes destruction upon the mighty and brings ruin upon the fortified city.

  • Jer 6:4
    71%

    4 Prepare for war against her! Arise, let us attack at noon! Woe to us, for the day is waning and the shadows of evening are lengthening.

  • Ezek 38:12
    71%

    12 You will come to seize spoil and carry off plunder, to turn your hand against resettled ruins and against a people gathered from the nations, people acquiring livestock and goods, who live at the center of the land.

  • Isa 22:10
    71%

    10 You counted the houses of Jerusalem and tore down houses to fortify the wall.

  • Deut 28:52
    71%

    52 They will lay siege to all the cities throughout your land until your high fortified walls, in which you trusted, come down. They will besiege all the cities in the land the LORD your God has given you.

  • Isa 30:14
    71%

    14 'Its collapse will be like that of a jar shattered into pieces so small that no fragment can be used to scoop fire from the hearth or draw water from a cistern.'

  • Dan 11:15
    71%

    15 So the king of the North will come and build siege ramps and capture a fortified city. The forces of the South will not stand; even their best troops will have no strength to resist.

  • Isa 3:25
    70%

    25 Your men will fall by the sword, and your warriors in battle.

  • Jer 6:27
    70%

    27 I have made you a tester of metals among my people, that you may observe and test their ways.

  • Isa 54:2
    70%

    2 Enlarge the place of your tent; stretch out the curtains of your dwellings—do not hold back! Lengthen your cords and strengthen your stakes.

  • 2 Kgs 3:16
    70%

    16 And he said, "This is what the LORD says: Make this valley full of ditches."

  • Zeph 1:16
    70%

    16 It is a day of trumpet blast and battle cry against the fortified cities and against the high towers.

  • Eccl 9:14
    70%

    14 There was a small city with a few men in it, and a great king came against it, surrounded it, and built large siegeworks around it.

  • Hos 8:14
    70%

    14 Israel has forgotten his Maker and built palaces; Judah has fortified many cities. But I will send fire on their cities, and it will devour their strongholds.

  • Ezek 21:20
    70%

    20 So that hearts melt, and many stumble at all their gates, I have placed a glittering sword. It is made to flash like lightning and is prepared for slaughter.

  • Jer 29:5
    70%

    5 Build houses and settle in them. Plant gardens and eat their fruit.

  • Jer 51:27
    70%

    27 Raise a banner in the land! Blow the trumpet among the nations! Prepare the nations for battle against her. Summon the kingdoms: Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz. Appoint a commander against her. Bring up horses like swarming locusts!

  • Jer 4:5
    70%

    5 Declare in Judah and proclaim in Jerusalem, saying, 'Sound the trumpet throughout the land!' Cry aloud and say, 'Assemble yourselves, and let us go into the fortified cities.'