Parallel Verses
International Standard Version
The river gates will be opened, and the palace will collapse.
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.
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.
Darby Translation
The gates of the rivers are opened, and the palace melteth 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 will remember to summon his finest troops. They will stumble on their way, hurrying over to Nineveh's wall. Their defensive shield is in place. 6 The river gates will be opened, and the palace will collapse. 7 It has been determined: The woman is unveiled and sent away, her servant girls mourn. Beating their breasts, they whimper like doves.
Names
Cross References
Isaiah 45:1-2
This is what the LORD says to his anointed, Cyrus, whose right hand I have grasped to subdue nations before him, as I strip kings of their armor, to open doors before him and gates that cannot keep closed:
2 Peter 3:10-11
But the Day of the Lord will come like a thief. On that day the heavens will disappear with a roaring sound, the elements will be destroyed by fire, and the earth and everything done on it will be exposed.