Nahum 2:3

KJV1611 – Modern English

The shield of his mighty men is made red, the valiant men are in scarlet: the chariots shall be with flaming torches in the day of his preparation, and the fir trees shall be terribly shaken.

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  • Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

    For the LORD has restored the glory of Jacob, as the glory of Israel. Even though plunderers have ravaged them and destroyed their vines.

  • King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

    The shield of his mighty men is made red, the valiant men are in scarlet: the chariots shall be with flaming torches in the day of his preparation, and the fir trees shall be terribly shaken.

  • American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

    The shield{H4043} of his mighty men{H1368} is made red,{H119} the valiant{H2428} men{H582} are in scarlet:{H8529} the chariots{H7393} flash{H784} with steel{H6393} in the day{H3117} of his preparation,{H3559} and the cypress [spears]{H1265} are brandished.{H7477}

  • King James Version with Strong's Numbers

    The shield{H4043} of his mighty men{H1368} is made red{H119}{(H8794)}, the valiant{H2428} men{H582} are in scarlet{H8529}{(H8794)}: the chariots{H7393} shall be with flaming{H784} torches{H6393} in the day{H3117} of his preparation{H3559}{(H8687)}, and the fir trees{H1265} shall be terribly shaken{H7477}{(H8717)}.

  • Coverdale Bible (1535)

    The shylde of his giauntes glistereth, his men of warre are clothed in purple. His charettes are as fyre, when he maketh him forwarde, his archers are wel deckte & trimmed.

  • Geneva Bible (1560)

    The shield of his mightie men is made red: the valiant men are in skarlet: the charets shalbe as in the fire and flames in the day of his preparation, and the firre trees shall tremble.

  • Bishops' Bible (1568)

    The shielde of his valiaunt souldiours is died red, his captaynes of warre are clad with scarlet: the charret is compassed with flammig torches in the day of his expedition, and the firre staues are drenched in poyson.

  • Authorized King James Version (1611)

    The shield of his mighty men is made red, the valiant men [are] in scarlet: the chariots [shall be] with flaming torches in the day of his preparation, and the fir trees shall be terribly shaken.

  • Webster's Bible (1833)

    The shield of his mighty men is made red. The valiant men are in scarlet. The chariots flash with steel in the day of his preparation, and the pine spears are brandished.

  • Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

    The shield of his mighty ones is become red, Men of might `are in' scarlet, With fiery torches `is' the chariot in a day of his preparation, And the firs have been caused to tremble.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    The shield of his mighty men is made red, the valiant men are in scarlet: the chariots flash with steel in the day of his preparation, and the cypress `spears' are brandished.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    The shield of his mighty men is made red, the valiant men are in scarlet: the chariots flash with steel in the day of his preparation, and the cypress [spears] are brandished.

  • Bible in Basic English (1941)

    For the Lord will make good the vine of Jacob, as well as the vine of Israel: for the wasters have made them waste and sent destruction on the branches of their vine.

  • World English Bible (2000)

    The shield of his mighty men is made red. The valiant men are in scarlet. The chariots flash with steel in the day of his preparation, and the pine spears are brandished.

  • NET Bible® (New English Translation)

    Prophetic Vision of the Fall of Nineveh The shields of his warriors are dyed red; the mighty soldiers are dressed in scarlet garments. The chariots are in flashing metal fittings on the day of battle; the soldiers brandish their spears.

Referenced Verses

  • Ezek 23:14-15 : 14 And that she increased her harlotries: for when she saw men portrayed upon the wall, the images of the Chaldeans portrayed with vermilion, 15 Girded with sashes upon their loins, excellently attired upon their heads, all of them looking like princes, after the manner of the Babylonians of Chaldea, the land of their nativity:
  • Zech 1:8 : 8 I saw by night, and behold, a man riding on a red horse, and he stood among the myrtle trees that were in the hollow; and behind him were red horses, speckled, and white.
  • Zech 6:2 : 2 In the first chariot were red horses; and in the second chariot, black horses;
  • Zech 11:2 : 2 Howl, fir tree, for the cedar has fallen; because the mighty are destroyed. Howl, O oaks of Bashan, for the forest of the vintage has come down.
  • Rev 6:4 : 4 And there went out another horse that was red: and power was given to him who sat on it to take peace from the earth, and that they should kill one another: and there was given unto him a great sword.
  • Rev 12:3 : 3 And another sign appeared in heaven: behold, a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns on his heads.
  • Isa 14:8 : 8 Yes, the pine trees rejoice over you, and the cedars of Lebanon, saying, Since you are laid down, no woodcutter comes up against us.
  • Isa 63:1-3 : 1 Who is this that comes from Edom, with dyed garments from Bozrah? This one who is glorious in his apparel, traveling in the greatness of his strength? It is I, who speak in righteousness, mighty to save. 2 Why are you red in your apparel, and your garments like one who treads in the winepress? 3 I have trodden the winepress alone; and of the people, there was none with me: for I will tread them in my anger, and trample them in my fury; and their blood shall be sprinkled upon my garments, and I will stain all my clothing.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Nah 2:4-5
    2 verses
    85%

    4 The chariots shall rage in the streets, they shall jostle one against another in the broad ways: they shall seem like torches, they shall run like the lightning.

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

  • Joel 2:2-7
    6 verses
    78%

    2 A day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness, as the morning spreads upon the mountains: a great and strong people; there has never been anything like it, neither shall there be any more after it, even to the years of many generations.

    3 A fire devours before them, and behind them a flame burns; the land is like the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yes, and nothing shall escape them.

    4 The appearance of them is like the appearance of horses, and like horsemen, so shall they run.

    5 Like the noise of chariots on the tops of mountains they shall leap, like the noise of a flame of fire that devours the stubble, like a strong people arrayed for battle.

    6 Before them the people shall be much pained; all faces shall gather blackness.

    7 They 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.

  • Isa 22:6-8
    3 verses
    75%

    6 And Elam bore the quiver with chariots of men and horsemen, and Kir uncovered the shield.

    7 And it shall come to pass that your choicest valleys shall be full of chariots, and the horsemen shall set themselves in array at the gate.

    8 And he uncovered the covering of Judah, and you looked in that day to the armor of the house of the forest.

  • Nah 3:2-3
    2 verses
    74%

    2 The noise of a whip, and the noise of the rattling of wheels, and of galloping horses, and of bounding chariots.

    3 The horseman raises both the bright sword and the glittering spear: there is a multitude of slain, and a great number of corpses; and there is no end to their bodies; they stumble upon their corpses:

  • Nah 2:1-2
    2 verses
    74%

    1 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.

    2 For 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 46:3-5
    3 verses
    73%

    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.

  • Isa 31:9
    73%

    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 5:28
    73%

    28 Whose arrows are sharp, and all their bows bent, their horses' hooves shall be counted like flint, and their wheels like a whirlwind:

  • Jer 22:7
    73%

    7 And I will prepare destroyers against you, everyone with his weapons: and they shall cut down your choice cedars, and cast them into the fire.

  • Ezek 26:9-10
    2 verses
    72%

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

    10 Because of the abundance of his horses, their dust shall cover you; your walls shall shake at the noise of the horsemen, and of the wheels, and of the chariots, when he enters into your gates, as men enter a city that has been breached.

  • Jer 46:9
    72%

    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.

  • Jer 47:3
    72%

    3 At the noise of the stamping of the hoofs of his strong horses, at the rushing of his chariots, and at the rumbling of his wheels, the fathers shall not look back to their children for feebleness of hands;

  • Isa 10:17-18
    2 verses
    72%

    17 And the light of Israel shall be for a fire, and his Holy One for a flame: and it shall burn and devour his thorns and his briers in one day;

    18 And shall consume the glory of his forest and of his fruitful field, both soul and body: and they shall be as when a standard-bearer faints.

  • Isa 9:5
    72%

    5 For every battle of the warrior is with confused noise and garments rolled in blood; but this shall be with burning and fuel of fire.

  • Zech 10:5
    71%

    5 And they shall be like mighty men, who tread down their enemies in the mire of the streets in battle. And they shall fight, because the LORD is with them, and the riders on horses shall be confounded.

  • Jer 6:23
    71%

    23 They shall hold the bow and spear; they are cruel and have no mercy; their voice roars like the sea; and they ride upon horses, set in array as men for war against you, O daughter of Zion.

  • Hab 1:8
    71%

    8 Their horses are swifter than leopards, fiercer than evening wolves; their horsemen spread themselves, and their horsemen shall come from afar; they fly as the eagle that hastens to eat.

  • Joel 3:9
    71%

    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:

  • Isa 30:32
    70%

    32 And in every place where the grounded staff shall pass, which the LORD shall lay upon him, it shall be with tambourines and harps: and in battles of shaking he will fight with it.

  • Joel 2:10
    70%

    10 The earth shall quake before them; the heavens shall tremble, the sun and the moon shall be dark, and the stars shall withdraw their shining.

  • Hag 2:22
    70%

    22 And I will overthrow the throne of kingdoms, and I will destroy the strength of the kingdoms of the nations; and I will overthrow the chariots and those who ride in them; the horses and their riders shall come down, every one by the sword of his brother.

  • Lam 2:3
    70%

    3 He has cut off in His fierce anger all the strength of Israel: He has drawn back His right hand from before the enemy, and He burned against Jacob like a flaming fire, which devours all around.

  • Ezek 39:9-10
    2 verses
    70%

    9 And those who dwell in the cities of Israel shall go forth and set on fire and burn the weapons, both the shields and the bucklers, the bows and the arrows, the javelins and the spears, and they shall burn them with fire for seven years.

    10 They shall not take wood out of the field, nor cut down any from the forests; for they shall burn the weapons with fire: and they shall take spoil from those who spoiled them, and rob those who robbed them, says the Lord GOD.

  • Isa 63:2
    70%

    2 Why are you red in your apparel, and your garments like one who treads in the winepress?

  • Isa 31:4
    70%

    4 For thus has the LORD spoken to me, Like a lion and the young lion roaring over his prey, when a multitude of shepherds is called against him, he will not be afraid of their voice, nor humble himself for the noise of them: so shall the LORD of hosts come down to fight for Mount Zion, and for its hill.

  • Isa 37:24
    70%

    24 By your servants you have reproached the Lord, and have said, By the multitude of my chariots I have come up to the height of the mountains, to the sides of Lebanon; and I will cut down its tall cedars and its choice fir trees: and I will enter the height of its border, the forest of its Carmel.

  • Jer 4:13
    70%

    13 Behold, he shall come up like clouds, and his chariots shall be like a whirlwind: his horses are swifter than eagles. Woe to us! for we are ruined.

  • Job 39:23
    70%

    23 The quiver rattles against it, the flashing spear and the javelin.

  • Jer 46:22
    69%

    22 The voice thereof shall go like a serpent; for they shall march with an army, and come against her with axes, as hewers of wood.

  • Ps 120:4
    69%

    4 Sharp arrows of the mighty, with coals of juniper.

  • Zech 6:2
    69%

    2 In the first chariot were red horses; and in the second chariot, black horses;

  • Ezek 38:19
    69%

    19 For in my jealousy and in the fire of my wrath have I spoken, Surely in that day there shall be a great shaking in the land of Israel;

  • Ps 97:3
    69%

    3 A fire goes before him and burns up his enemies all around.

  • Zech 11:2
    69%

    2 Howl, fir tree, for the cedar has fallen; because the mighty are destroyed. Howl, O oaks of Bashan, for the forest of the vintage has come down.