Parallel Verses
Bible in Basic English
The river doorways are forced open, and the king's house is flowing away.
New American Standard Bible
And the palace is dissolved.
King James Version
The gates of the rivers shall be opened, and the palace shall be dissolved.
Holman Bible
and the palace erodes away.
International Standard Version
The river gates will be opened, and the palace will collapse.
A Conservative Version
The gates of the rivers are opened, and the palace is dissolved.
American Standard Version
The gates of the rivers are opened, and the palace is dissolved.
Amplified
The gates of the rivers [surrounding Nineveh] are opened
And the palace [of sun-dried brick] is dissolved [by the torrents].
Darby Translation
The gates of the rivers are opened, and the palace melteth away.
Julia Smith Translation
The gates of the rivers were opened, and the temple melted away.
King James 2000
The gates of the rivers shall be opened, and the palace shall be dissolved.
Lexham Expanded Bible
The gates of the river are opened; the palace trembles.
Modern King James verseion
The gates of the rivers shall be opened, and the palace shall be melted.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
The water ports shall be opened, and the king's palace shall fall.
NET Bible
The sluice gates are opened; the royal palace is deluged and dissolves.
New Heart English Bible
The gates of the rivers are opened, and the palace is dissolved.
The Emphasized Bible
The gates of the rivers, have been opened, - and, the palace, doth quake.
Webster
The gates of the rivers shall be opened, and the palace shall be dissolved.
World English Bible
The gates of the rivers are opened, and the palace is dissolved.
Youngs Literal Translation
Gates of the rivers have been opened, And the palace is dissolved.
Interlinear
Pathach
References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Nahum 2:6
Verse Info
Context Readings
An Army Will Conquer Nineveh
5 He takes the record of his great men: they go falling on their way; they go quickly to the wall, the cover is made ready. 6 The river doorways are forced open, and the king's house is flowing away. 7 And the queen is uncovered, she is taken away and her servant-girls are weeping like the sound of doves, hammering on their breasts.
Names
Cross References
Isaiah 45:1-2
The Lord says to the man of his selection, to Cyrus, whom I have taken by the right hand, putting down nations before him, and taking away the arms of kings; making the doors open before him, so that the ways into the towns may not be shut;
2 Peter 3:10-11
But the day of the Lord will come like a thief; and in that day the heavens will be rolled up with a great noise, and the substance of the earth will be changed by violent heat, and the world and everything in it will be burned up.