Parallel Verses
World English Bible
Draw water for the siege. Strengthen your fortresses. Go into the clay, and tread the mortar. Make the brick kiln strong.
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.
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, your troops in your midst are women. The gates of your land are set wide open to your enemies. The fire has devoured your bars. 14 Draw water for the siege. Strengthen your fortresses. Go into the clay, and tread the mortar. Make the brick kiln strong. 15 There the fire will devour you. The sword will cut you off. It will devour you like the grasshopper. Multiply like grasshoppers. Multiply like the locust.
Cross References
Nahum 2:1
He who dashes in pieces has come up against you. Keep the fortress! Watch the way! Strengthen your waist! Fortify your power mightily!
2 Chronicles 32:3-4
he took counsel with his princes and his mighty men to stop the waters of the springs which were outside of the city; and they helped him.
2 Chronicles 32:11
Doesn't Hezekiah persuade you, to give you over to die by famine and by thirst, saying, 'Yahweh our God will deliver us out of the hand of the king of Assyria?'
Isaiah 8:9
Make an uproar, you peoples, and be broken in pieces! Listen, all you from far countries: dress for battle, and be shattered! Dress for battle, and be shattered!
Isaiah 22:9-11
You saw the breaches of the city of David, that they were many; and you gathered together the waters of the lower pool.
Isaiah 37:25
I have dug and drunk water, and with the sole of my feet I will dry up all the rivers of Egypt."
Jeremiah 46:3-4
Prepare the buckler and shield, and draw near to battle!
Jeremiah 46:9
Go up, you horses; and rage, you chariots; and let the mighty men go forth: Cush and Put, who handle the shield; and the Ludim, who handle and bend the bow.
Joel 3:9-11
Proclaim this among the nations: "Prepare for war! Stir up the mighty men. Let all the warriors draw near. Let them come up.