Nahum 2:1

KJV1611 – Modern English

The one who dashes in pieces is coming up before you: keep the fortress, watch the road, make your loins strong, fortify your power mightily.

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  • Jer 51:20-23 : 20 You are my battle axe and weapons of war; for with you I will break in pieces the nations, and with you I will destroy kingdoms; 21 And with you I will break in pieces the horse and his rider; and with you I will break in pieces the chariot and its rider; 22 With you also I will break in pieces man and woman; with you I will break in pieces old and young; and with you I will break in pieces the young man and the maiden. 23 I will also break in pieces with you the shepherd and his flock; and with you I will break in pieces the farmer and his yoke of oxen; and with you I will break in pieces captains and rulers.
  • Joel 3:9-9 : 9 Proclaim this among the nations: Prepare war, wake up the mighty men, let all the men of war draw near; let them come up: 10 Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruning hooks into spears; let the weak say, I am strong. 11 Assemble yourselves and come, all you nations, and gather yourselves together round about; cause your mighty ones to come down there, O LORD.
  • Nah 3:14-15 : 14 Draw water for the siege, fortify your strongholds: go into clay and tread the mortar, make strong the brick kiln. 15 There the fire shall devour you; the sword shall cut you off, it shall eat you up like the locust: make yourself many like the locust, make yourself many like the swarming locusts.
  • 2 Chr 25:8 : 8 But if you will go, do it, be strong for the battle; God shall make you fall before the enemy, for God has power to help, and to cast down.
  • Isa 14:6 : 6 He who struck the people in wrath with a continual stroke, he that ruled the nations in anger, is persecuted, and none hinders.
  • Jer 25:9 : 9 Behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, says the LORD, and Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, My servant, and will bring them against this land, and against its inhabitants, and against all these nations round about, and will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, a hissing, and perpetual desolations.
  • Jer 46:3-9 : 3 Prepare the buckler and shield, and draw near to battle. 4 Harness the horses; and get up, you horsemen, and stand forth with your helmets; polish the spears, and put on the armor. 5 Why have I seen them dismayed and turned back? Their mighty ones are beaten down, and have fled quickly, and do not look back: for fear is all around, says the LORD. 6 Do not let the swift flee away, nor the mighty man escape; they shall stumble and fall toward the north by the river Euphrates. 7 Who is this that comes up like a flood, whose waters move like the rivers? 8 Egypt rises up like a flood, and his waters move like the rivers; and he says, I will go up, and will cover the earth; I will destroy the city and its inhabitants. 9 Come up, you horses; and rage, you chariots; and let the mighty men come forth: the Ethiopians and the Libyans, who handle the shield; and the Lydians, who handle and bend the bow. 10 For this is the day of the Lord GOD of hosts, a day of vengeance, that he may avenge himself on his adversaries: and the sword shall devour, and it shall be satiated and made drunk with their blood: for the Lord GOD of hosts has a sacrifice in the north country by the river Euphrates.
  • Jer 50:23 : 23 How the hammer of the whole earth is cut apart and broken! how Babylon has become a desolation among the nations!
  • Jer 51:11-12 : 11 Polish the arrows; gather the shields; the LORD has raised up the spirit of the kings of the Medes, for His plan is against Babylon, to destroy it; because it is the vengeance of the LORD, the vengeance of His temple. 12 Set up the banner upon the walls of Babylon, make the watch strong, set up the watchmen, prepare the ambushes; for the LORD has both devised and done what He spoke against the inhabitants of Babylon.

Similar Verses (AI)

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    5He shall recount his nobles: they shall stumble in their walk; they shall make haste to the wall thereof, and the defense shall be prepared.

  • Amos 5:9
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    9That strengthens the plundered against the strong, so that the plundered shall come against the fortress.

  • Nah 3:13-14
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    13Behold, your people in your midst are women: the gates of your land shall be set wide open to your enemies: the fire shall devour your bars.

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  • Ezek 26:8-9
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    8He shall slay with the sword your daughters in the field; and he shall build a fort against you, and cast a mound against you, and lift up a shield against you.

    9And he shall set up engines of war against your walls, and with his axes he shall break down your towers.

  • Nah 2:2
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    2For the LORD has turned away the grandeur of Jacob, as the grandeur of Israel: for the emptiers have emptied them out, and ruined their vine branches.

  • Jer 1:17-18
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    75%

    17Therefore prepare yourself, and arise, and speak to them all that I command you: do not be dismayed at their faces, lest I confound you before them.

    18For behold, I have made you this day a fortified city, and an iron pillar, and bronze walls against the whole land, against the kings of Judah, against its princes, against its priests, and against the people of the land.

  • Joel 3:9-11
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    9Proclaim this among the nations: Prepare war, wake up the mighty men, let all the men of war draw near; let them come up:

    10Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruning hooks into spears; let the weak say, I am strong.

    11Assemble yourselves and come, all you nations, and gather yourselves together round about; cause your mighty ones to come down there, O LORD.

  • Jer 10:17
    74%

    17Gather up your wares out of the land, O inhabitant of the fortress.

  • Lam 2:17
    74%

    17The Lord has done what He had planned; He has fulfilled His word that He commanded in the days of old: He has thrown down, and has not pitied: and He has caused your enemy to rejoice over you, He has exalted the strength of your adversaries.

  • Ezek 4:2
    74%

    2And lay siege against it, build a fort against it, and throw up a ramp against it; set the camp also against it, and set battering rams against it all around.

  • Ezek 38:7
    74%

    7Be prepared, and prepare for yourself, you, and all your company that are assembled unto you, and be a guard unto them.

  • Isa 25:12
    73%

    12And the fortress of the high fort of your walls will He bring down, lay low, and bring to the ground, even to the dust.

  • Isa 8:9
    73%

    9Associate yourselves, O you people, and you shall be broken in pieces; and listen, all you of far countries: gird yourselves, and you shall be broken in pieces; gird yourselves, and you shall be broken in pieces.

  • Jer 51:3
    73%

    3Against him who bends let the archer bend his bow, and against him who lifts himself up in his armor; and do not spare her young men; utterly destroy all her army.

  • Amos 3:11
    73%

    11Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: An adversary shall be all around the land; he shall bring down your strength from you, and your palaces shall be plundered.

  • Mic 2:8
    72%

    8Even of late my people has risen up as an enemy: you pull off the robe with the garment from those who pass by securely as men averse from war.

  • Zeph 1:16
    72%

    16A day of the trumpet and alarm against the fortified cities, and against the high towers.

  • Joel 1:6
    72%

    6For a nation has come up against my land, strong, and without number, whose teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he has the cheek teeth of a great lion.

  • Joel 2:7
    72%

    7They shall run like mighty men; they shall climb the wall like men of war; and each shall march on his way, and they shall not break their ranks.

  • Dan 11:15
    72%

    15So the king of the north shall come, and build a siege mound, and take the fortified city: and the forces of the south shall not withstand him, neither his chosen people, nor shall there be any strength to withstand.

  • Isa 28:2
    72%

    2Behold, the Lord has a mighty and strong one, like a tempest of hail and a destroying storm, like a flood of mighty waters overflowing, who shall cast down to the earth with the hand.

  • Jer 46:3-4
    2 verses
    72%

    3Prepare the buckler and shield, and draw near to battle.

    4Harness the horses; and get up, you horsemen, and stand forth with your helmets; polish the spears, and put on the armor.

  • Ezek 21:20
    72%

    20Appoint a way, that the sword may come to Rabbath of the Ammonites, and to Judah in Jerusalem the fortified.

  • 2 Chr 25:8
    72%

    8But if you will go, do it, be strong for the battle; God shall make you fall before the enemy, for God has power to help, and to cast down.

  • 1 Sam 2:4
    72%

    4The bows of the mighty men are broken, and those who stumbled are girded with strength.

  • Isa 2:15
    72%

    15And upon every high tower, and upon every fortified wall,

  • Isa 31:9
    72%

    9And he shall pass over to his stronghold for fear, and his princes shall be afraid of the banner, says the LORD, whose fire is in Zion, and His furnace in Jerusalem.

  • Lam 2:2
    72%

    2The Lord has swallowed up all the dwellings of Jacob, and has not pitied: He has thrown down in His wrath the strongholds of the daughter of Judah; He has brought them down to the ground: He has defiled the kingdom and its princes.

  • Jer 6:22
    72%

    22Thus says the LORD, Behold, a people comes from the north country, and a great nation shall be raised from the farthest parts of the earth.

  • Jer 5:16
    72%

    16Their quiver is like an open sepulchre, they are all mighty men.

  • Jer 51:12
    72%

    12Set up the banner upon the walls of Babylon, make the watch strong, set up the watchmen, prepare the ambushes; for the LORD has both devised and done what He spoke against the inhabitants of Babylon.

  • Nah 3:11
    71%

    11You also shall be drunk: you shall be hidden, you also shall seek strength because of the enemy.

  • Jer 4:7
    71%

    7The lion has come up from his thicket, and the destroyer of the nations is on his way; he has gone forth from his place to make your land desolate; and your cities shall be laid waste, without an inhabitant.

  • Amos 2:16
    71%

    16And he who is courageous among the mighty shall flee away naked in that day, says the LORD.

  • 2 Chr 32:5
    71%

    5He also strengthened himself, and rebuilt all the wall that was broken, and raised it to the towers, and built another wall outside, and repaired Millo in the city of David, and made weapons and shields in abundance.

  • Deut 28:52
    71%

    52And he shall besiege you in all your gates, until your high and fortified walls come down, in which you trusted, throughout all your land: and he shall besiege you in all your gates throughout all your land, which the LORD your God has given you.

  • Jer 6:27
    71%

    27I have set you as a tower and a fortress among my people, that you may know and test their way.

  • Isa 3:25
    71%

    25Your men shall fall by the sword, and your mighty in battle.

  • Ezek 9:1
    71%

    1He also cried in my ears with a loud voice, saying, Bring near those who have charge over the city, each with his destroying weapon in his hand.

  • Lam 2:5
    71%

    5The Lord was like an enemy: He has swallowed up Israel, He has swallowed up all her palaces: He has destroyed His strongholds, and has increased in the daughter of Judah mourning and lamentation.

  • Jer 6:25
    71%

    25Do not go forth into the field, nor walk by the way; for the sword of the enemy and fear is on every side.

  • Lam 2:8
    71%

    8The Lord has purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion: He has stretched out a line, He has not withdrawn His hand from destroying: therefore He made the rampart and the wall to lament; they languished together.

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    25When he raises himself up, the mighty are afraid; because of the crashing they are beside themselves.

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    71%

    20You are my battle axe and weapons of war; for with you I will break in pieces the nations, and with you I will destroy kingdoms;