Parallel Verses
New Heart English Bible
Cush and Egypt were her boundless strength. Put and Libya were her helpers.
New American Standard Bible
And Egypt too, without limits.
King James Version
Ethiopia and Egypt were her strength, and it was infinite; Put and Lubim were thy helpers.
Holman Bible
Put and Libya were among her
International Standard Version
Sudan was her source of strength, along with Egypt there were no limits. Put and the Libyans were her allies.
A Conservative Version
Ethiopia and Egypt were her strength, and it was infinite. Put and Lubim were thy helpers.
American Standard Version
Ethiopia and Egypt were her strength, and it was infinite; Put and Lubim were thy helpers.
Amplified
Ethiopia was her strength,
And Egypt too, without limits.
Bible in Basic English
Ethiopia was her strength and Egyptians without number; Put and Lubim were her helpers.
Darby Translation
Ethiopia was her strength, and Egypt, and it was infinite; Phut and the Libyans were her helpers.
Julia Smith Translation
Cush her strength, and Egypt, and no end; Put and Lubim were among thy helpers.
King James 2000
Ethiopia and Egypt were her strength, and it was without limit; Put and Lubim were your helpers.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Cush [was] her strength, Egypt without end; Put and Libya were among {your allies}.
Modern King James verseion
Ethiopia and Egypt were her strength, yea, without end. Put and Lubim were among your helpers.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Ethiopia and Egypt were her strength, and that exceedingly great above measure. Put and Libya were her helpers,
NET Bible
Cush and Egypt had limitless strength; Put and the Libyans were among her allies.
The Emphasized Bible
Ethiopia, was her strength, and Egypt - Yea, without end, - Put and Lubim, were among thy helpers.
Webster
Cush and Egypt were her strength, and it was infinite; Put and Lubim were thy helpers.
World English Bible
Cush and Egypt were her boundless strength. Put and Libya were her helpers.
Youngs Literal Translation
Cush her might, and Egypt, and there is no end. Put and Lubim have been for thy help.
Themes
Lubims » The region they inhabited was called phut in
Phut » The descendants of phut, or the country inhabited by them
Interlinear
References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Nahum 3:9
Verse Info
Context Readings
Nineveh Will Suffer The Same Fate She Inflicted On Thebes
8 Are you better than No-Amon, who was situated among the rivers, who had the waters around her; whose rampart was the sea, and her wall was of the sea? 9 Cush and Egypt were her boundless strength. Put and Libya were her helpers. 10 Yet was she carried away. She went into captivity. Her young children also were dashed in pieces at the head of all the streets, and they cast lots for her honorable men, and all her great men were bound in chains.
Phrases
Cross References
Ezekiel 27:10
Persia and Lud and Put were in your army, your men of war: they hanged the shield and helmet in you; they set forth your comeliness.
Ezekiel 30:5
Ethiopia, and Put, and Lud, and all the mixed people, and Cub, and the children of the land that is allied with them, shall fall with them by the sword."'
Genesis 10:6
The sons of Ham: Cush, Mizraim, Put, and Canaan.
2 Chronicles 12:3
with twelve hundred chariots, and sixty thousand horsemen. The people were without number who came with him out of Egypt: the Lubim, the Sukkiim, and the Ethiopians.
Isaiah 20:5
They will be dismayed and confounded, because of Ethiopia their expectation, and of Egypt their glory.
Jeremiah 46:9
Go up, you horses; and rage, you chariots; and let the mighty men go forth: Cush and Put, who handle the shield; and the Ludim, who handle and bend the bow.
Ezekiel 38:5
Persia, Cush, and Put with them, all of them with shield and helmet;
1 Chronicles 1:8
The sons of Ham: Cush, and Mizraim, Put, and Canaan.