Parallel Verses

Amplified


The gates of the rivers [surrounding Nineveh] are opened
And the palace [of sun-dried brick] is dissolved [by the torrents].

New American Standard Bible

The gates of the rivers are opened
And the palace is dissolved.

King James Version

The gates of the rivers shall be opened, and the palace shall be dissolved.

Holman Bible

The river gates are opened,
and the palace erodes away.

International Standard Version

The river gates will be opened, and the palace will collapse.

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.

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

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
The gates
שׁער 
Sha`ar 
Usage: 374

of the rivers
נהר 
Nahar 
Usage: 119

פּתח 
Pathach 
Usage: 143

and the palace
היכל 
heykal 
Usage: 80

References

Morish

Watsons

Context Readings

An Army Will Conquer Nineveh

5
He remembers and summons his nobles;
They stumble in their march [terrified because of the attack].
They hurry to the city wall,
And the mantelet is prepared and firmly set up.
6 
The gates of the rivers [surrounding Nineveh] are opened
And the palace [of sun-dried brick] is dissolved [by the torrents].
7
It is decreed:
Nineveh is stripped, and she is carried away,
And her handmaids are moaning like the sound of doves,
Beating on their breasts [in sorrow].



Cross References

Isaiah 45:1-2

This is what the Lord says to His anointed, to Cyrus [king of Persia],
Whose right hand I have held
To subdue nations before him,
And I will ungird the loins of kings [disarming them];
To open doors before him so that gates will not be shut:

2 Peter 3:10-11

But the day of the Lord will come like a thief, and then the heavens will vanish with a [mighty and thunderous] roar, and the [material] elements will be destroyed with intense heat, and the earth and the works that are on it will be burned up.

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