Parallel Verses
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.
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.
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:
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 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 Behold, thy people women in the midst of thee: the gates of thy land being opened were opened to thine enemies: a fire devoured thy bars. 14 Draw the water of the siege to thee, strengthen thy fortresses go into clay, tread upon the clay, hold fast from the brick. 15 There shall the fire devour thee; the sword shall cut thee off, it shall devour thee as the feeder: make thee numerous as the feeder, make thee numerous as the locust
Cross References
Nahum 2:1
The hammer came up upon thy face: press upon the fortress, look about the way, strengthen the loins, make the power strong greatly.
2 Chronicles 32:3-4
And he will take counsel with his chiefs and his strong ones to stop the waters of the fountains which were without to the city: and they will help him.
2 Chronicles 32:11
Is not Hezekiah stimulating you to give yourselves to die by famine and by thirst, saying, Jehovah our God will deliver us from the hand of the king of Assur?
Isaiah 8:9
Make friendship, ye peoples, and be broken in pieces; and give ear, every land from afar; be girded and be broken in pieces; be girded and be broken in pieces.
Isaiah 22:9-11
The clefts of the city of David ye saw, that they were many: and ye shall gather the water of the lowest pool.
Isaiah 37:25
I dug and drank water; and I will dry up with the sole of my footstep all the rivers of Egypt,
Jeremiah 46:3-4
Prepare the covering and the shield, and approach to the war.
Jeremiah 46:9
Come up, ye horses; and rage, ye chariots; and the strong ones shall come forth: Cush and Phut seizing the shield; and the Ludims, bending the bow.
Joel 3:9-11
Call ye this among the nations: Consecrate war; rouse up the strong ones, they shall draw near, all the men of war shall come up.