Parallel Verses
King James Version
Take ye the spoil of silver, take the spoil of gold: for there is none end of the store and glory out of all the pleasant furniture.
New American Standard Bible
Plunder the
For there is no limit to the treasure—
Wealth from every kind of desirable object.
Holman Bible
There is no end to the treasure,
an abundance of every precious thing.
International Standard Version
Take the silver! Take the gold! There is no end to the treasure fabulous riches of every imagination.
A Conservative Version
Take ye the spoil of silver. Take the spoil of gold. For there is no end of the store, the glory of all goodly furniture.
American Standard Version
Take ye the spoil of silver, take the spoil of gold; for there is no end of the store, the glory of all goodly furniture.
Amplified
Plunder the silver!
Plunder the gold!
For there is no end to the treasure—
Wealth from every precious object.
Bible in Basic English
Take silver, take gold; for there is no end to the store; take for yourselves a weight of things to be desired.
Darby Translation
Plunder the silver, plunder the gold; for there is no end of the splendid store of all precious vessels.
Julia Smith Translation
They plundered silver, they plundered gold: and no end to her splendid equipage; glory from all the vessels of desire.
King James 2000
Take the spoil of silver, take the spoil of gold: for there is no end of treasure or wealth out of all the precious things.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Plunder the silver! Plunder the gold! There is no end to the spoils, an abundance of {everything one could want}!
Modern King James verseion
Seize the silver; seize the gold; for there is no end to the treasures; riches from all precious vessels.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Away with the silver, away with the gold: for here is no end of treasure. There shall be a multitude of all manner costly ornaments.
NET Bible
Her conquerors cry out: "Plunder the silver! Plunder the gold!" There is no end to the treasure; riches of every kind of precious thing.
New Heart English Bible
Take the spoil of silver. Take the spoil of gold, for there is no end of the store, the glory of all goodly furniture.
The Emphasized Bible
Plunder silver, plunder gold, - and there is no end to the costly furnishing, rich with every article of delight.
Webster
Take ye the spoil of silver, take the spoil of gold: for there is no end of the store and glory out of all the pleasant furniture.
World English Bible
Take the spoil of silver. Take the spoil of gold, for there is no end of the store, the glory of all goodly furniture.
Youngs Literal Translation
Seize ye silver, seize ye gold, And there is no end to the prepared things, To the abundance of all desirable vessels.
Interlinear
Bazaz
Bazaz
Qatseh
Word Count of 20 Translations in Nahum 2:9
Verse Info
Context Readings
Nineveh's Treasures Will Be Taken
8 But Nineveh is of old like a pool of water: yet they shall flee away. Stand, stand, shall they cry; but none shall look back. 9 Take ye the spoil of silver, take the spoil of gold: for there is none end of the store and glory out of all the pleasant furniture. 10 She is empty, and void, and waste: and the heart melteth, and the knees smite together, and much pain is in all loins, and the faces of them all gather blackness.
Names
Cross References
2 Chronicles 36:10
And when the year was expired, king Nebuchadnezzar sent, and brought him to Babylon, with the goodly vessels of the house of the LORD, and made Zedekiah his brother king over Judah and Jerusalem.
Isaiah 33:1
Woe to thee that spoilest, and thou wast not spoiled; and dealest treacherously, and they dealt not treacherously with thee! when thou shalt cease to spoil, thou shalt be spoiled; and when thou shalt make an end to deal treacherously, they shall deal treacherously with thee.
Isaiah 33:4
And your spoil shall be gathered like the gathering of the caterpiller: as the running to and fro of locusts shall he run upon them.
Jeremiah 25:34
Howl, ye shepherds, and cry; and wallow yourselves in the ashes, ye principal of the flock: for the days of your slaughter and of your dispersions are accomplished; and ye shall fall like a pleasant vessel.
Jeremiah 51:56
Because the spoiler is come upon her, even upon Babylon, and her mighty men are taken, every one of their bows is broken: for the LORD God of recompences shall surely requite.
Ezekiel 26:12
And they shall make a spoil of thy riches, and make a prey of thy merchandise: and they shall break down thy walls, and destroy thy pleasant houses: and they shall lay thy stones and thy timber and thy dust in the midst of the water.
Daniel 11:8
And shall also carry captives into Egypt their gods, with their princes, and with their precious vessels of silver and of gold; and he shall continue more years than the king of the north.
Nahum 2:12-13
The lion did tear in pieces enough for his whelps, and strangled for his lionesses, and filled his holes with prey, and his dens with ravin.