Nahum 2:13

KJV1611 – Modern English

Behold, I am against you, says the LORD of hosts, and I will burn her chariots in the smoke, and the sword shall devour your young lions: and I will cut off your prey from the earth, and the voice of your messengers shall no more be heard.

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  • Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

    The lion tears apart prey to feed its cubs and strangles it for its lionesses. He fills his dens with prey and his lairs with torn flesh.

  • King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

    Behold, I am against thee, saith the LORD of hosts, and I will burn her chariots in the smoke, and the sword shall devour thy young lions: and I will cut off thy prey from the earth, and the voice of thy messengers shall no more be heard.

  • American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

    Behold, I am against thee, saith{H5002} Jehovah{H3068} of hosts,{H6635} and I will burn{H1197} her chariots{H7393} in the smoke,{H6227} and the sword{H2719} shall devour{H398} thy young lions;{H3715} and I will cut off{H3772} thy prey{H2964} from the earth,{H776} and the voice{H6963} of thy messengers{H4397} shall no more be heard.{H8085}

  • King James Version with Strong's Numbers

    Behold, I am against thee, saith{H5002}{(H8803)} the LORD{H3068} of hosts{H6635}, and I will burn{H1197}{(H8689)} her chariots{H7393} in the smoke{H6227}, and the sword{H2719} shall devour{H398}{(H8799)} thy young lions{H3715}: and I will cut off{H3772}{(H8689)} thy prey{H2964} from the earth{H776}, and the voice{H6963} of thy messengers{H4397} shall no more be heard{H8085}{(H8735)}.

  • Coverdale Bible (1535)

    Beholde, I wil vpon the (saieth the LORDE of hoostes) and wil set fyre vpon thy charettes, that they shal smoke withall, and the swerde shal deuoure thy yonge lyons. I wil make an ende of thy spoylinge from out of the earth, & the voyce of thy messaungers shall nomore be herde.

  • Geneva Bible (1560)

    Beholde, I come vnto thee, sayeth the Lord of hostes, and I will burne her charets in the smoke, and the sworde shall deuoure thy yong lyons, and I will cut off thy spoyle from the earth, and the voyce of thy messengers shall no more be heard.

  • Bishops' Bible (1568)

    Behold me against thee sayth the Lord of hoastes, & I will burne in smoke her charets, and the sworde shall deuoure thy lions, I will roote out also from the earth thy spoyling, and the voyce of thy messengers shalbe hearde no more.

  • Authorized King James Version (1611)

    Behold, I [am] against thee, saith the LORD of hosts, and I will burn her chariots in the smoke, and the sword shall devour thy young lions: and I will cut off thy prey from the earth, and the voice of thy messengers shall no more be heard.

  • Webster's Bible (1833)

    "Behold, I am against you," says Yahweh of Hosts, "and I will burn her chariots in the smoke, and the sword will devour your young lions; and I will cut off your prey from the earth, and the voice of your messengers will no longer be heard."

  • Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

    Lo, I `am' against thee, An affirmation of Jehovah of Hosts, And I have burned in smoke its chariot, And thy young lions consume doth a sword, And I have cut off from the land thy prey, And not heard any more is the voice of thy messengers!

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    Behold, I am against thee, saith Jehovah of hosts, and I will burn her chariots in the smoke, and the sword shall devour thy young lions; and I will cut off thy prey from the earth, and the voice of thy messengers shall no more be heard.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    Behold, I am against thee, saith Jehovah of hosts, and I will burn her chariots in the smoke, and the sword shall devour thy young lions; and I will cut off thy prey from the earth, and the voice of thy messengers shall no more be heard.

  • Bible in Basic English (1941)

    Food enough for his young and for his she-lions was pulled down by the lion; his hole was full of flesh and his resting-place stored with meat.

  • World English Bible (2000)

    "Behold, I am against you," says Yahweh of Armies, "and I will burn her chariots in the smoke, and the sword will devour your young lions; and I will cut off your prey from the earth, and the voice of your messengers will no longer be heard."

  • NET Bible® (New English Translation)

    Battle Cry of the Divine Warrior“I am against you!” declares the LORD of Heaven’s Armies:“I will burn your chariots with fire; the sword will devour your young lions; you will no longer prey upon the land; the voices of your messengers will no longer be heard.”

Referenced Verses

  • Ps 46:9 : 9 He makes wars cease to the ends of the earth; he breaks the bow and cuts the spear in two; he burns the chariot in the fire.
  • 2 Kgs 19:23 : 23 By your messengers you have reproached the Lord, and have said, With the multitude of my chariots, I have come up to the height of the mountains, to the sides of Lebanon, and will cut down its tall cedar trees, and the choice fir trees: and I will enter into its farthest lodging, and into the forest of its Carmel.
  • Nah 3:5 : 5 Behold, I am against you, says the LORD of hosts; and I will lift your skirts over your face, and I will show the nations your nakedness, and the kingdoms your shame.
  • Jer 21:13 : 13 Behold, I am against you, O inhabitant of the valley and rock of the plain, says the LORD; who say, Who shall come down against us? or who shall enter into our dwellings?
  • 2 Kgs 19:9 : 9 And when he heard it said of Tirhakah king of Ethiopia, Behold, he has come out to fight against you: he sent messengers again to Hezekiah, saying,
  • Isa 49:24-25 : 24 Shall the prey be taken from the mighty, or the lawful captive delivered? 25 But thus says the LORD, Even the captives of the mighty shall be taken away, and the prey of the terrible shall be delivered: for I will contend with him who contends with you, and I will save your children.
  • Nah 3:1 : 1 Woe to the bloody city! It is all full of lies and robbery; the prey does not depart;
  • Josh 11:9 : 9 And Joshua did to them as the LORD commanded him: he hamstrung their horses, and burned their chariots with fire.
  • Ezek 5:8 : 8 Therefore thus says the Lord GOD; Behold, I, even I, am against you, and will execute judgments in your midst in the sight of the nations.
  • Ezek 26:3 : 3 Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I am against you, O Tyre, and will cause many nations to come up against you, as the sea causes its waves to come up.
  • Ezek 28:22 : 22 And say, Thus says the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against you, O Sidon; and I will be glorified in the midst of you: and they shall know that I am the LORD, when I have executed judgments in her, and shall be sanctified in her.
  • Ezek 29:3 : 3 Speak, and say, Thus says the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against you, Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great dragon that lies in the midst of his rivers, which has said, My river is mine own, and I have made it for myself.
  • Ezek 29:10 : 10 Behold, therefore I am against you, and against your rivers, and I will make the land of Egypt utterly waste and desolate, from the tower of Syene even to the border of Ethiopia.
  • Ezek 35:3 : 3 And say to it, Thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, O Mount Seir, I am against you, and I will stretch out My hand against you, and I will make you most desolate.
  • Ezek 38:3 : 3 And say, Thus says the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against you, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal:
  • Ezek 39:1 : 1 Therefore, son of man, prophesy against Gog, and say, Thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I am against you, O Gog, chief prince of Meshech and Tubal.
  • 2 Kgs 18:17 : 17 The king of Assyria sent Tartan, Rabsaris, and Rabshakeh from Lachish to King Hezekiah with a great army against Jerusalem. They went up and came to Jerusalem, and when they had gone up, they stood by the aqueduct of the upper pool, which is on the highway to the fuller's field.
  • 2 Kgs 18:19 : 19 Rabshakeh said to them, Say now to Hezekiah, Thus says the great king, the king of Assyria: What confidence is this in which you trust?
  • 2 Kgs 18:27-35 : 27 But Rabshakeh said to them, Has my master sent me to your master and to you to speak these words? Has he not sent me to the men sitting on the wall, who will eat their own dung and drink their own urine with you? 28 Then Rabshakeh stood and cried with a loud voice in Hebrew and spoke, saying, Hear the words of the great king, the king of Assyria! 29 Thus says the king: Do not let Hezekiah deceive you, for he shall not be able to deliver you out of his hand. 30 Nor let Hezekiah make you trust in the LORD, saying, The LORD will surely deliver us, and this city shall not be handed over to the king of Assyria. 31 Do not listen to Hezekiah, for thus says the king of Assyria: Make peace with me and come out to me, and every one of you will eat from his own vine and his own fig tree, and drink from the water of his own cistern, 32 until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of grain and wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a land of olive oil and honey, that you may live and not die. Do not listen to Hezekiah when he persuades you, saying, The LORD will deliver us. 33 Has any of the gods of the nations at all delivered his land from the hand of the king of Assyria? 34 Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivah? Have they delivered Samaria from my hand? 35 Who among all the gods of the lands have delivered their countries from my hand, that the LORD should deliver Jerusalem from my hand?
  • Isa 31:8-9 : 8 Then shall the Assyrian fall with the sword, not of a mighty man; and the sword, not of a mean man, shall devour him: but he shall flee from the sword, and his young men shall be discomfited. 9 And 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.
  • Isa 33:1-4 : 1 Woe to you who plunder, though you were not plundered; and who deal treacherously, though they did not deal treacherously with you! When you cease to plunder, you will be plundered; when you stop dealing treacherously, they will deal treacherously with you. 2 O LORD, be gracious to us; we have waited for you. Be their arm every morning, our salvation also in the time of trouble. 3 At the noise of the tumult the people fled; at your rising, the nations were scattered. 4 Your spoil will be gathered like the gathering of the caterpillar; as locusts run to and fro, he will run upon them.
  • Isa 37:36-38 : 36 Then the angel of the LORD went forth, and struck down in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred and eighty-five thousand: and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead bodies. 37 So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went and returned, and dwelt at Nineveh. 38 And it happened, as he was worshiping in the house of Nisroch his god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons killed him with the sword; and they escaped into the land of Armenia: and Esarhaddon his son reigned in his place.
  • 2 Chr 32:9-9 : 9 After this, Sennacherib king of Assyria sent his servants to Jerusalem (while he was besieging Lachish with all his forces), to Hezekiah king of Judah, and to all Judah that were in Jerusalem, saying, 10 Thus says Sennacherib king of Assyria, On what do you trust, that you remain under siege in Jerusalem? 11 Does not Hezekiah persuade you to give yourselves up to die by famine and by thirst, saying, The LORD our God will deliver us out of the hand of the king of Assyria? 12 Has not that same Hezekiah taken away his high places and his altars, and commanded Judah and Jerusalem, saying, You shall worship before one altar, and burn incense on it? 13 Do you not know what I and my fathers have done to all the peoples of other lands? Were the gods of those lands able to deliver their lands out of my hand? 14 Who among all the gods of those nations that my fathers utterly destroyed was able to deliver his people out of my hand, that your God should be able to deliver you out of my hand? 15 Now therefore, do not let Hezekiah deceive you or persuade you in this manner, nor believe him; for no god of any nation or kingdom was able to deliver his people out of my hand and from the hand of my fathers, how much less shall your God deliver you out of my hand? 16 And his servants spoke yet more against the LORD God and against his servant Hezekiah.
  • 2 Chr 32:19 : 19 And they spoke against the God of Jerusalem, as against the gods of the people of the earth, which were the work of men's hands.
  • Jer 50:31 : 31 Behold, I am against you, O most proud, says the Lord GOD of hosts: for your day has come, the time that I will visit you.
  • Jer 51:25 : 25 Behold, I am against you, O destroying mountain, says the LORD, which destroys all the earth; and I will stretch out My hand upon you, and roll you down from the rocks, and will make you a burnt mountain.
  • Nah 3:12 : 12 All your strongholds shall be like fig trees with the first-ripe figs: if they are shaken, they shall even fall into the mouth of the eater.

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