Nahum 2:6

World English Bible (2000)

The gates of the rivers are opened, and the palace is dissolved.

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  • Isa 45:1-2 : 1 Thus says Yahweh to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have held, to subdue nations before him, and strip kings of their armor; to open the doors before him, and the gates shall not be shut: 2 "I will go before you, and make the rough places smooth. I will break the doors of brass in pieces, and cut apart the bars of iron.
  • 2 Pet 3:10-11 : 10 But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in which the heavens will pass away with a great noise, and the elements will be dissolved with fervent heat, and the earth and the works that are in it will be burned up. 11 Therefore since all these things will be destroyed like this, what kind of people ought you to be in holy living and godliness,

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  • 5 He summons his picked troops. They stumble on their way. They dash to its wall, and the protective shield is put in place.

  • 26 Her gates shall lament and mourn; and she shall be desolate and sit on the ground.

  • Lam 2:7-9
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    74%

    7 The Lord has cast off his altar, he has abhorred his sanctuary; He has given up into the hand of the enemy the walls of her palaces: They have made a noise in the house of Yahweh, as in the day of a solemn assembly.

    8 Yahweh has purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion; He has stretched out the line, he has not withdrawn his hand from destroying; He has made the rampart and wall to lament; they languish together.

    9 Her gates are sunk into the ground; he has destroyed and broken her bars: Her king and her princes are among the nations where the law is not; Yes, her prophets find no vision from Yahweh.

  • 12 They shall make a spoil of your riches, and make a prey of your merchandise; and they shall break down your walls, and destroy your pleasant houses; and they shall lay your stones and your timber and your dust in the midst of the waters.

  • 7 It is decreed: she is uncovered, she is carried away; and her handmaids moan as with the voice of doves, beating on their breasts.

  • 11 Your gates also shall be open continually; they shall not be shut day nor night; that men may bring to you the wealth of the nations, and their kings led captive.

  • Isa 19:5-6
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    5 The waters will fail from the sea, and the river will be wasted and become dry.

    6 The rivers will become foul. The streams of Egypt will be diminished and dried up. The reeds and flags will wither away.

  • 12 He has brought the high fortress of your walls down, laid low, and brought to the ground, even to the dust.

  • 5 Arise, and let us go up by night, and let us destroy her palaces."

  • 12 The city is left in desolation, and the gate is struck with destruction.

  • 13 Behold, your troops in your midst are women. The gates of your land are set wide open to your enemies. The fire has devoured your bars.

  • 2 Open the gates, that the righteous nation may enter: the one which keeps faith.

  • Ezek 26:9-10
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    9 He shall set his battering engines against your walls, and with his axes he shall break down your towers.

    10 By reason of the abundance of his horses their dust shall cover you: your walls shall shake at the noise of the horsemen, and of the wagons, and of the chariots, when he shall enter into your gates, as men enter into a city in which is made a breach.

  • 7 It happened that your choicest valleys were full of chariots, and the horsemen set themselves in array at the gate.

  • 10 In that day, says Yahweh, there will be the noise of a cry from the fish gate, a wailing from the second quarter, and a great crashing from the hills.

  • 7 Who is this who rises up like the Nile, whose waters toss themselves like the rivers?

  • 11 A day to build your walls-- In that day, he will extend your boundary.

  • 16 Should your springs overflow in the streets, streams of water in the public squares?

  • 22 The overwhelming forces shall be overwhelmed from before him, and shall be broken; yes, also the prince of the covenant.

  • 10 Pass through your land like the Nile, daughter of Tarshish. There is no restraint any more.

  • 32 and the passages are seized, and the reeds they have burned with fire, and the men of war are frightened.

  • Isa 8:6-7
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    6 "Because this people have refused the waters of Shiloah that go softly, and rejoice in Rezin and Remaliah's son;

    7 now therefore, behold, the Lord brings upon them the mighty flood waters of the River: the king of Assyria and all his glory. It will come up over all its channels, and go over all its banks.

  • Amos 1:14-15
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    14 But I will kindle a fire in the wall of Rabbah, and it will devour its palaces, with shouting in the day of battle, with a storm in the day of the whirlwind;

    15 and their king will go into captivity, he and his princes together," says Yahweh.

  • 14 Then I went on to the spring gate and to the king's pool: but there was no place for the animal that was under me to pass.

  • 24 I have dug and drunk strange waters, and with the sole of my feet will I dry up all the rivers of Egypt.'

  • 26 Come against her from the utmost border; open her storehouses; cast her up as heaps, and destroy her utterly; let nothing of her be left.

  • 7 Lift up your heads, you gates! Be lifted up, you everlasting doors, and the King of glory will come in.

  • 7 As a well casts forth its waters, so she casts forth her wickedness: violence and destruction is heard in her; before me continually is sickness and wounds.

  • 6 The nations raged. The kingdoms were moved. He lifted his voice, and the earth melted.

  • 27 who says to the deep, 'Be dry,' and 'I will dry up your rivers;'

  • 14 Therefore Sheol has enlarged its desire, and opened its mouth without measure; and their glory, their multitude, their pomp, and he who rejoices among them, descend into it.

  • 25 There shall be brooks and streams of water on every lofty mountain and on every high hill in the day of the great slaughter, when the towers fall.

  • 10 The pillars will be broken in pieces. All those who work for hire will be grieved in soul.

  • 16 For he has broken the gates of brass, and cut through bars of iron.

  • 25 I have dug and drunk water, and with the sole of my feet I will dry up all the rivers of Egypt."

  • 2 For you have made a city into a heap, a fortified city into a ruin, a palace of strangers to be no city. It will never be built.

  • 3 You will go out at the breaks in the wall, everyone straight before her; and you will cast yourselves into Harmon," says Yahweh.

  • 19 The cities of the South are shut up, and there is none to open them: Judah is carried away captive, all of it; it is wholly carried away captive.

  • 1 Thus says Yahweh to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have held, to subdue nations before him, and strip kings of their armor; to open the doors before him, and the gates shall not be shut:

  • 2 that sends ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of papyrus on the waters, saying, "Go, you swift messengers, to a nation tall and smooth, to a people awesome from their beginning onward, a nation that measures out and treads down, whose land the rivers divide!"

  • 7 Therefore they will carry away the abundance they have gotten, and that which they have stored up, over the brook of the willows.

  • 10 The confused city is broken down. Every house is shut up, that no man may come in.

  • 13 He who breaks open the way goes up before them. They break through the gate, and go out. And their king passes on before them, with Yahweh at their head.

  • 18 Now shall the islands tremble in the day of your fall; yes, the islands that are in the sea shall be dismayed at your departure.