Parallel Verses
Bible in Basic English
Take silver, take gold; for there is no end to the store; take for yourselves a weight of things to be desired.
New American Standard Bible
Plunder the
For there is no limit to the treasure—
Wealth from every kind of desirable object.
King James Version
Take ye the spoil of silver, take the spoil of gold: for there is none end of the store and glory out of all the pleasant furniture.
Holman Bible
There is no end to the treasure,
an abundance of every precious thing.
International Standard Version
Take the silver! Take the gold! There is no end to the treasure fabulous riches of every imagination.
A Conservative Version
Take ye the spoil of silver. Take the spoil of gold. For there is no end of the store, the glory of all goodly furniture.
American Standard Version
Take ye the spoil of silver, take the spoil of gold; for there is no end of the store, the glory of all goodly furniture.
Amplified
Plunder the silver!
Plunder the gold!
For there is no end to the treasure—
Wealth from every precious object.
Darby Translation
Plunder the silver, plunder the gold; for there is no end of the splendid store of all precious vessels.
Julia Smith Translation
They plundered silver, they plundered gold: and no end to her splendid equipage; glory from all the vessels of desire.
King James 2000
Take the spoil of silver, take the spoil of gold: for there is no end of treasure or wealth out of all the precious things.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Plunder the silver! Plunder the gold! There is no end to the spoils, an abundance of {everything one could want}!
Modern King James verseion
Seize the silver; seize the gold; for there is no end to the treasures; riches from all precious vessels.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Away with the silver, away with the gold: for here is no end of treasure. There shall be a multitude of all manner costly ornaments.
NET Bible
Her conquerors cry out: "Plunder the silver! Plunder the gold!" There is no end to the treasure; riches of every kind of precious thing.
New Heart English Bible
Take the spoil of silver. Take the spoil of gold, for there is no end of the store, the glory of all goodly furniture.
The Emphasized Bible
Plunder silver, plunder gold, - and there is no end to the costly furnishing, rich with every article of delight.
Webster
Take ye the spoil of silver, take the spoil of gold: for there is no end of the store and glory out of all the pleasant furniture.
World English Bible
Take the spoil of silver. Take the spoil of gold, for there is no end of the store, the glory of all goodly furniture.
Youngs Literal Translation
Seize ye silver, seize ye gold, And there is no end to the prepared things, To the abundance of all desirable vessels.
Interlinear
Bazaz
Bazaz
Qatseh
Word Count of 20 Translations in Nahum 2:9
Verse Info
Context Readings
Nineveh's Treasures Will Be Taken
8 But Nineveh is like a pool of water whose waters are flowing away; Keep your place, they say; but no one is turning back. 9 Take silver, take gold; for there is no end to the store; take for yourselves a weight of things to be desired. 10 Everything has been taken from her, all is gone, she has nothing more: the heart is turned to water, the knees are shaking, all are twisted in pain, and colour has gone from all faces.
Names
Cross References
2 Chronicles 36:10
In the spring of the year King Nebuchadnezzar sent and took him away to Babylon, with the beautiful vessels of the house of the Lord, and made Zedekiah, his father's brother, king over Judah and Jerusalem.
Isaiah 33:1
Ho! you who make waste those who did not make you waste; acting falsely to those who were not false to you. When you have come to an end of wasting, you will be made waste, and after your false acts, they will do the same to you.
Isaiah 33:4
And the goods taken in war will be got together like the massing of young locusts; men will be rushing on them like the rushing of locusts.
Jeremiah 25:34
Give cries of grief, you keepers of sheep; give cries for help, rolling yourselves in the dust, you chiefs of the flock: for the days of your destruction have fully come, and I will send you in all directions, and your fall will be like that of the males of the flock.
Jeremiah 51:56
For the waster has come on her, even on Babylon, and her men of war are taken, their bows are broken: for the Lord is a rewarding God, and he will certainly give payment.
Ezekiel 26:12
They will take by force all your wealth and go off with the goods with which you do trade: they will have your walls broken down and all the houses of your desire given up to destruction: they will put your stones and your wood and your dust deep in the water.
Daniel 11:8
And their gods and their metal images and their fair vessels of silver and gold he will take away into the south; and for some years he will keep away from the king of the north.
Nahum 2:12-13
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.