Parallel Verses
Darby Translation
The gates of the rivers are opened, and the palace melteth 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].
Bible in Basic English
The river doorways are forced open, and the king's house is flowing 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 bethinketh him of his nobles: they stumble in their march; they make haste to the wall thereof, and the shelter is prepared. 6 The gates of the rivers are opened, and the palace melteth away. 7 And it is decreed: she shall be uncovered, she shall be led away, and her maids shall moan as with the voice of doves, drumming upon their breasts.
Names
Cross References
Isaiah 45:1-2
Thus saith Jehovah to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have holden, to subdue nations before him and I will loose the loins of kings; to open before him the two-leaved doors, and the gates shall not be shut:
2 Peter 3:10-11
But the day of the Lord will come as a thief, in which the heavens will pass away with a rushing noise, and the elements, burning with heat, shall be dissolved, and the earth and the works in it shall be burnt up.