Parallel Verses

A Conservative Version

He who dashes in pieces has come up against thee. Keep the fortress. Watch the way. Make thy loins strong. Fortify thy power mightily.

New American Standard Bible

The one who scatters has come up against you.
Man the fortress, watch the road;
Strengthen your back, summon all your strength.

King James Version

He that dasheth in pieces is come up before thy face: keep the munition, watch the way, make thy loins strong, fortify thy power mightily.

Holman Bible

One who scatters is coming up against you.
Man the fortifications!
Watch the road!
Brace yourself!
Summon all your strength!

International Standard Version

You are being attacked by advancing forces! Guard your rampart! Watch your roads! Prepare yourselves! Marshall your defenses!

American Standard Version

He that dasheth in pieces is come up against thee: keep the fortress, watch the way, make thy loins strong, fortify thy power mightily.

Amplified

The one who scatters has come up against you [Nineveh].
Man the fortress and ramparts, watch the road;
Strengthen your back [prepare for battle], summon all your strength.

Bible in Basic English

A crusher has come up before your face: keep a good look-out, let the way be watched, make yourself strong, let your power be greatly increased.

Darby Translation

He that dasheth in pieces is come up against thy face: keep the fortress, watch the way, make thy loins strong, fortify thy power mightily.

Julia Smith Translation

The hammer came up upon thy face: press upon the fortress, look about the way, strengthen the loins, make the power strong greatly.

King James 2000

He that dashes in pieces has come up before your face: keep the fortress, watch the road, make your flanks strong, fortify your power mightily.

Lexham Expanded Bible

{One who shatters} has come up against you! Guard [the] fortification! Watch [the] road! Gird [your] loins! {Muster} all [your] strength!

Modern King James verseion

The scattering one is coming up against your face. Guard the rampart. Watch the way, make your loins strong, firm up your power mightily.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

The scatterer shall come up against thee, and lay siege to the castle. Look thou well to the streets, make thy loins strong, arm thyself with all thy might:

NET Bible

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!"

New Heart English Bible

He who dashes in pieces has come up against you. Keep the fortress. Watch the way. Strengthen your waist. Fortify your power mightily.

The Emphasized Bible

He that breaketh in pieces hath come up over thy face, Keep the keeps, - watch the way, brace the loins, make vigour very firm.

Webster

He that dasheth in pieces is come up before thy face: keep the munition, watch the way, make thy loins strong, fortify thy power mightily.

World English Bible

He who dashes in pieces has come up against you. Keep the fortress! Watch the way! Strengthen your waist! Fortify your power mightily!

Youngs Literal Translation

Come up hath a scatterer to thy face, Keep the bulwark, watch the way, Strengthen the loins, strengthen power mightily.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
is come up
עלה 
`alah 
Usage: 890

פּנים 
Paniym 
Usage: 2119

the munition
מצרה מצוּרה 
M@tsuwrah 
Usage: 8

צפה 
Tsaphah 
Usage: 36

the way
דּרך 
Derek 
Usage: 704

מתן 
Mothen 
Usage: 47

כּוח כּח 
Koach 
Usage: 126

References

Morish

Watsons

War

Context Readings

An Army Will Conquer Nineveh

1 He who dashes in pieces has come up against thee. Keep the fortress. Watch the way. Make thy loins strong. Fortify thy power mightily. 2 For LORD restores the excellency of Jacob, as the excellency of Israel, for the emptiers have emptied them out, and destroyed their vine-branches.



Cross References

Jeremiah 51:20-23

Thou are my battle-axe and weapons of war. And with thee I will break in pieces the nations, and with thee I will destroy kingdoms,

2 Chronicles 25:8

But if thou are going, do [it]. Be strong for the battle, [because] God will cast thee down before the enemy, for God has power to help, and to cast down.

Isaiah 14:6

who smote the peoples in wrath with a continual stroke, who ruled the nations in anger, with a persecution that none restrained.

Jeremiah 25:9

behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, says LORD, and Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will bring them against this land, and against the inhabitants of it, and against all these nations roun

Jeremiah 46:3-10

Prepare ye the buckler and shield, and draw near to battle.

Jeremiah 50:23

How the hammer of the whole earth is cut apart and broken! How Babylon has become a desolation among the nations!

Jeremiah 51:11-12

Make sharp the arrows. Hold firm the shields. LORD has stirred up the spirit of the kings of the Medes, because his purpose is against Babylon, to destroy it. For it is the vengeance of LORD, the vengeance of his temple.

Joel 3:9-11

Proclaim ye this among the nations: Prepare war. Stir up the mighty men. Let all the men of war draw near. Let them come up.

Nahum 3:14-15

Draw thee water for the siege. Strengthen thy fortresses. Go into the clay, and tread the mortar. Make strong the brick kiln.

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