Nahum 2:6

Geneva Bible (1560)

The gates of the riuers shalbe opened, and the palace shall melt.

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  • Isa 45:1-2 : 1 Thus sayeth the Lord vnto Cyrus his anointed, whose right hand I haue holden to subdue nations before him: therefore will I weaken the loynes of Kings and open the doores before him, and the gates shall not be shut: 2 I will goe before thee and make the crooked streight: I will breake the brasen doores, and burst the yron barres.
  • 2 Pet 3:10-11 : 10 But the day of the Lord will come as a thiefe in the night, in the which the heauens shall passe away with a noyse, and the elements shall melt with heate, and the earth with the workes that are therein, shalbe burnt vp. 11 Seeing therefore that all these thinges must be dissolued, what maner persons ought ye to be in holy conuersation and godlinesse,

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  • 5He shall remember his strong men: they shall stumble as they goe: they shall make haste to the walles thereof, and the defence shall bee prepared.

  • 26Then shall her gates mourne and lament, and she, being desolate, shall sit vpon the ground.

  • Lam 2:7-9
    3 verses
    74%

    7The Lord hath forsaken his altar: he hath abhorred his Sanctuarie: he hath giue into the hand of the enemie the walles of her palaces: they haue made a noyse in the House of the Lorde, as in the day of solemnitie.

    8The Lorde hath determined to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion: hee stretched out a lyne: hee hath not withdrawen his hande from destroying: therefore hee made the rampart and the wall to lament: they were destroyed together.

    9Her gates are sunke to the grounde: he hath destroyed and broken her barres: her King and her princes are among the Gentiles: the Lawe is no more, neither can her Prophets receiue any vision from the Lord.

  • 12And they shall robbe thy riches, and spoyle thy marchandise, and they shall breake downe thy walles, and destroy thy pleasant houses, and they shall cast thy stones and thy timber and thy dust into the middes of the water.

  • 7And Huzzab the Queene shalbe led away captiue, and her maides shall leade her as with the voyce of doues, smiting vpon their breastes.

  • 11Therefore thy gates shalbe open cotinually: neither day nor night shall they be shutte, that men may bring vnto thee the riches of the Gentiles, and that their Kings may be brought.

  • Isa 19:5-6
    2 verses
    71%

    5Then the waters of the sea shall faile, and the riuers shall be dryed vp, and wasted.

    6And the riuers shall goe farre away: the riuers of defence shalbe emptied and dryed vp: the reedes and flagges shall be cut downe.

  • 12The defence also of the height of thy walles shall he bring downe and lay lowe, and cast them to the ground, euen vnto the dust.

  • 5Arise, and let vs goe vp by night, and destroy her palaces.

  • 12In the citie is left desolation, and the gate is smitten with destruction.

  • 13Beholde, thy people within thee are women: the gates of thy land shalbe opened vnto thine enemies, and ye fire shall deuoure thy barres.

  • 2Open ye the gates that the righteous nation, which keepeth the trueth, may enter in.

  • Ezek 26:9-10
    2 verses
    70%

    9He shall set engins of warre before him against thy walles, and with his weapons breake downe thy towres.

    10The dust of his horses shall couer thee, for their multitude: thy walles shall shake at the noise of the horsemen, and of the wheeles, and of the charets, when he shall enter into thy gates as into the entrie of a citie that is broken downe.

  • 7And thy chiefe valleis were full of charets, and the horsemen set themselues in aray against the gate.

  • 10And in that day, saith the Lord, there shall be a noise, and cry from the fishgate, and an howling from the second gate, and a great destruction from the hilles.

  • 7Who is this, that commeth vp, as a flood, whose waters are mooued like the riuers?

  • 11This is ye day, that thy walles shalbe built: this day shall driue farre away the decree.

  • 16Let thy fountaines flow foorth, and the riuers of waters in the streetes.

  • 22And the armes shall be ouerthrowen with a flood before him, and shall be broken: and also the prince of the couenant.

  • 10Passe through thy lande like a flood to the daughter of Tarshish: there is no more strength.

  • 32And that the passages are stopped, and the reedes burnt with fire, & the me of war troubled.

  • Isa 8:6-7
    2 verses
    69%

    6Because this people hath refused the waters of Shiloah that runne softly, and reioyce with Rezin, and the sonne of Remaliah,

    7Nowe therefore, beholde, the Lorde bringeth vp vpon them the waters of the Riuer mightie and great, euen the King of Asshur with all his glory, and he shall come vp vpon all their riuers, and goe ouer all their banks,

  • Amos 1:14-15
    2 verses
    69%

    14Therefore will I kindle a fire in the wall of Rabbah, and it shall deuoure the palaces thereof, with shouting in the day of battell, and with a tempest in the day of the whirlewinde.

    15And their King shall go into captiuitie, he and his princes together, saith the Lord.

  • 14Then I went foorth vnto the gate of the fountaine, and to the Kings fishpoole, and there was no rowme for the beast that was vnder me to passe.

  • 24I haue digged, and drunke the waters of others, and with the plant of my feete haue I dried all the floods closed in.

  • 26Come against her from the vtmost border: open her store houses: treade on her as on sheaues, and destroy her vtterly: let nothing of her be left.

  • 7Lift vp your heads ye gates, and be ye lift vp ye euerlasting doores, and the King of glory shall come in.

  • 7As the fountaine casteth out her waters, so she casteth out her malice: crueltie and spoyle is continually heard in her before me with sorowe and strokes.

  • 6When the nations raged, and the kingdomes were moued, God thundred, and the earth melted.

  • 27He saith to the deepe, Be drye and I will drye vp thy floods.

  • 14Therefore hel hath inlarged it selfe, & hath opened his mouth, without measure, and their glorie, and their multitude, and their pompe, and hee that reioyceth among them, shall descend into it.

  • 25And vpon euery hie mountaine, and vpon euery hie hill shal there be riuers and streames of waters, in the day of the great slaughter, when the towers shall fall.

  • 10For their nettes shalbe broken, and all they, that make pondes, shalbe heauie in heart.

  • 16For hee hath broken the gates of brasse, and brast the barres of yron asunder.

  • 25I haue digged and drunke the waters, and with the plant of my feete haue I dryed all the riuers closed in.

  • 2For thou hast made of a citie an heape, of a strong citie, a ruine: euen the palace of strangers of a citie, it shall neuer be built.

  • 3And ye shal goe out at the breaches euery kowe forward: and ye shal cast your selues out of the palace, saith the Lord.

  • 19The cities of the South shall be shut vp, and no man shall open them: all Iudah shall be caried away captiue: it shall be wholy caried away captiue.

  • 1Thus sayeth the Lord vnto Cyrus his anointed, whose right hand I haue holden to subdue nations before him: therefore will I weaken the loynes of Kings and open the doores before him, and the gates shall not be shut:

  • 2Sending ambassadours by the Sea, euen in vessels of reedes vpon the waters, saying, Go, ye swift messengers, to a nation that is scattered abroade, and spoyled, vnto a terrible people from their beginning euen hitherto: a nation by litle and litle, euen troden vnder foote, whose land the floods haue spoyled.

  • 7Therefore what euery man hath left, and their substance shall they beare to the brooke of the willowes.

  • 10The citie of vanitie is broken downe: euery house is shut vp, that no man may come in.

  • 13The breaker vp shall come vp before them: they shall breake out, & passe by the gate, and goe out by it, & their King shall goe before them, and the Lorde shalbe vpon their heades.

  • 18Nowe shall the yles be astonished in the day of thy fall: yea, the yles that are in the sea, shall be troubled at thy departure.