Parallel Verses
NET Bible
Draw yourselves water for a siege! Strengthen your fortifications! Trample the mud and tread the clay! Make mud bricks to strengthen your walls!
New American Standard Bible
Go into the clay and tread the mortar!
Take hold of the brick mold!
King James Version
Draw thee waters for the siege, fortify thy strong holds: go into clay, and tread the morter, make strong the brickkiln.
Holman Bible
strengthen your fortresses.
Step into the clay and tread the mortar;
take hold of the brick-mold!
International Standard Version
"Draw water, because a siege is coming! Strengthen your fortresses! Make the clay good and strong! Mix the mortar! Go get your brick molds!
A Conservative Version
Draw thee water for the siege. Strengthen thy fortresses. Go into the clay, and tread the mortar. Make strong the brick kiln.
American Standard Version
Draw thee water for the siege; strengthen thy fortresses; go into the clay, and tread the mortar; make strong the brickkiln.
Amplified
Draw water for a [long, continued] siege!
Strengthen your fortresses!
Go down to the clay pits, trample the mortar!
Prepare the brick kiln [to burn bricks for the rampart]!
Bible in Basic English
Get water for the time when you are shut in, make strong your towns: go into the potter's earth, stamping it down with your feet, make strong the brickworks.
Darby Translation
Draw thee water for the siege, strengthen thy fortresses; go into the clay, and tread the mortar, make strong the brick-kiln.
Julia Smith Translation
Draw the water of the siege to thee, strengthen thy fortresses go into clay, tread upon the clay, hold fast from the brick.
King James 2000
Draw your water for the siege, fortify your strongholds: go into the clay, and tread the mortar, make strong the brick kiln.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Draw water for a siege! Strengthen your fortifications! Go to the mud [pit]! Trample the clay! Grasp the brick mold!
Modern King James verseion
Draw waters for the siege; fortify your strongholds; go into the clay, and tread the mortar; make the brick mold strong.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Draw water now against thou be besieged, make up thy strongholds, go into the clay, temper the mortar, make strong brick:
New Heart English Bible
Draw water for the siege. Strengthen your fortresses. Go into the clay, and tread the mortar. Make the brick kiln strong.
The Emphasized Bible
Siege-water, draw for thyself, strengthen thy fortresses, - go into the clay, and tread thou the mortar, make strong the brick.
Webster
Draw thee waters for the siege, fortify thy strong holds: go into clay, and tread the mortar, make strong the brick-kiln.
World English Bible
Draw water for the siege. Strengthen your fortresses. Go into the clay, and tread the mortar. Make the brick kiln strong.
Youngs Literal Translation
Waters of a siege draw for thyself, Strengthen thy fortresses, Enter into mire, and tread on clay, Make strong a brick-kiln.
Themes
Mortar » Cement » Firm » Trodden
Sieges » Cities invested by » Supplied with water beforehand
Interlinear
Mayim
Matsowr
Chazaq
Word Count of 20 Translations in Nahum 3:14
Verse Info
Context Readings
Nineveh's Defenses Will Fail
13 Your warriors will be like women in your midst; the gates of your land will be wide open to your enemies; fire will consume the bars of your gates. 14 Draw yourselves water for a siege! Strengthen your fortifications! Trample the mud and tread the clay! Make mud bricks to strengthen your walls! 15 Multiply yourself like the young locust; multiply yourself like the flying locust!
Cross References
Nahum 2:1
The watchmen of Nineveh shout: "An enemy who will scatter you is marching out to attack you!" "Guard the rampart! Watch the road! Prepare yourselves for battle! Muster your mighty strength!"
2 Chronicles 32:3-4
he consulted with his advisers and military officers about stopping up the springs outside the city, and they supported him.
2 Chronicles 32:11
Hezekiah says, "The Lord our God will rescue us from the power of the king of Assyria." But he is misleading you and you will die of hunger and thirst!
Isaiah 8:9
You will be broken, O nations; you will be shattered! Pay attention, all you distant lands of the earth! Get ready for battle, and you will be shattered! Get ready for battle, and you will be shattered!
Isaiah 22:9-11
You saw the many breaks in the walls of the city of David; you stored up water in the lower pool.
Isaiah 37:25
I dug wells and drank water. With the soles of my feet I dried up all the rivers of Egypt.'
Jeremiah 46:3-4
"Fall into ranks with your shields ready! Prepare to march into battle!
Jeremiah 46:9
Go ahead and charge into battle, you horsemen! Drive furiously, you charioteers! Let the soldiers march out into battle, those from Ethiopia and Libya who carry shields, and those from Lydia who are armed with the bow.
Joel 3:9-11
Proclaim this among the nations: "Prepare for a holy war! Call out the warriors! Let all these fighting men approach and attack!