Parallel Verses
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.
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.
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
Look! Your soldiers are like women! The gates of your land are wide open to your enemies. Fire will destroy the bars of your gates.
14
Go into the clay and tread the mortar!
Take hold of the brick mold!
Cross References
Nahum 2:1
He who breaks in pieces has come up against you: Safeguard the fortress, watch the way, make your loins strong, and reinforce your power.
2 Chronicles 32:3-4
He and his officers and military staff made plans to stop the water from flowing out of the springs outside the city. They helped him do it.
2 Chronicles 32:11
Hezekiah your king is telling you that Jehovah your God will save you from me. But he is lying! You will die of hunger and thirst.
Isaiah 8:9
Be broken, you people. Be terrified. Listen all you distant parts of the earth. Prepare for battle and be terrified. Prepare for battle and be terrified!
Isaiah 22:9-11
You saw that the City of David had many breaches in its defenses. You stored up water in the lower pool.
Isaiah 37:25
I dug wells and drank the water there. With the bottom of my feet I dried up all the streams of Egypt.
Jeremiah 46:3-4
Get your large and small shields ready and advance into battle.
Jeremiah 46:9
Go into battle, you horsemen. Drive wildly, you chariot drivers. March into battle, you warriors, you warriors from Sudan and Put who carry shields, you warriors from Lydia who use bows and arrows.
Joel 3:9-11
Proclaim this among the nations! Prepare for war! Stir up the mighty men. Let all the men of war draw near let them come up.