Parallel Verses
Amplified
They stumble in their march [terrified because of the attack].
They hurry to the city wall,
And the
New American Standard Bible
They
They hurry to her wall,
And the
King James Version
He shall recount his worthies: they shall stumble in their walk; they shall make haste to the wall thereof, and the defence shall be prepared.
Holman Bible
they stumble as they advance.
They race to its wall;
the protective shield is set in place.
International Standard Version
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.
A Conservative Version
He remembers his nobles. They stumble in their march. They make haste to the wall of it, and the mantelet is prepared.
American Standard Version
He remembereth his nobles: they stumble in their march; they make haste to the wall thereof, and the mantelet is prepared.
Bible in Basic English
He takes the record of his great men: they go falling on their way; they go quickly to the wall, the cover is made ready.
Darby Translation
He bethinketh him of his nobles: they stumble in their march; they make haste to the wall thereof, and the shelter is prepared.
Julia Smith Translation
He shall make mention of his chiefs: they shall be weak in their goings; they shall hasten to her wall, and the covering was prepared.
King James 2000
He shall recount his nobles: they shall stumble in their walk; they shall make haste to the wall, and the defense shall be prepared.
Lexham Expanded Bible
He calls his officers; they stumble as they march; they rush to her wall; they set the covering in place.
Modern King James verseion
He shall remember his nobles; they shall stumble in their walking; they shall make haste to its wall, and the covering shall be prepared.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
When he doth but warn his giants, they all in their array, and hastily they climb up the walls: yea, the engines of the war are prepared already.
NET Bible
The commander orders his officers; they stumble as they advance; they rush to the city wall and they set up the covered siege tower.
New Heart English Bible
He summons his picked troops. They stumble on their way. They dash to its wall, and the protective shield is put in place.
The Emphasized Bible
Let him call to mind his nobles, they shall stumble as they go - let them hasten to her wall, yet the storming cover, is prepared.
Webster
He shall recount his worthies: they shall stumble in their walk; they shall make haste to the wall thereof, and the defense shall be prepared.
World English Bible
He summons his picked troops. They stumble on their way. They dash to its wall, and the protective shield is put in place.
Youngs Literal Translation
He doth remember his honourable ones, They stumble in their goings, They hasten to its wall, and prepared is the covering.
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Nahum 2:5
Verse Info
Context Readings
An Army Will Conquer Nineveh
4
The chariots race madly in the streets;
They rush wildly in the broad plazas.
Their appearance is like torches;
They rush in various directions like forked lightning.
They stumble in their march [terrified because of the attack].
They hurry to the city wall,
And the
The gates of the rivers [surrounding Nineveh] are opened
And the palace [of sun-dried brick] is dissolved [by the torrents].
Names
Cross References
Jeremiah 46:12
The nations have heard of your disgrace and shame,
And your cry [of distress] has filled the earth.
For warrior has stumbled against warrior,
And both of them have fallen together.
Isaiah 5:27
No one among them is weary or stumbles,
No one slumbers or sleeps;
Nor is the belt at their waist undone [as if unprepared for action],
Nor is the strap of their sandal broken.
Isaiah 21:5
They set the table [for the doomed banquet], they spread out the cloth, they eat, they drink;
“Rise up, captains [of Belshazzar’s court], oil your shields [for battle, for your enemy is at the gates]!”
Jeremiah 50:29
“Call together many [archers] against Babylon,
All those who bend the bow.
Encamp against her on every side;
Let no one from there escape.
Repay her according to her actions;
Just as she has done, do to her.
For she has been proudly defiant and presumptuous against the Lord,
Against the Holy One of Israel.
Jeremiah 51:27-28
Lift up a signal in the land [to spread the news]!
Blow the trumpet among the nations!
Dedicate the nations [for war] against her;
Call against her the kingdoms of Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz.
Appoint a marshal against her;
Cause the horses to come up like bristly locusts [with their wings not yet released from their cases].
Nahum 3:3
Horsemen charging,
Swords flashing, spears gleaming,
Many slain, a mass of corpses,
No end of corpses—
The horsemen stumble over the corpses!
Nahum 3:18
Your shepherds are asleep, O king of Assyria;
Your nobles are lying down [in death].
Your people are scattered on the mountains
And there is no one to gather them.