Parallel Verses
Holman Bible
strengthen your fortresses.
Step into the clay and tread the mortar;
take hold of the brick-mold!
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.
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
the gates of your land
are wide open to your enemies.
Fire will devour the bars of your gates.
strengthen your fortresses.
Step into the clay and tread the mortar;
take hold of the brick-mold!
the sword will cut you down.
It will devour you like the young locust.
Multiply yourselves like the young locust,
multiply like the swarming locust!
Cross References
Nahum 2:1
Man the fortifications!
Watch the road!
Brace
Summon all your strength!
2 Chronicles 32:3-4
so he consulted with his officials and his warriors about stopping up the waters of the springs that were outside the city, and they helped him.
2 Chronicles 32:11
Isn’t Hezekiah misleading you to give you over to death by famine and thirst when he says, “Yahweh our God will deliver us from the power of the king of Assyria”?
Isaiah 8:9
pay attention, all you distant lands;
prepare for war, and be broken;
prepare for war, and be broken.
Isaiah 22:9-11
You saw that there were many breaches in the walls of the city of David.
Isaiah 37:25
I dried up all the streams of Egypt
with the soles of my feet.”
Jeremiah 46:3-4
draw near for battle!
Jeremiah 46:9
Race furiously, you chariots!
Let the warriors go out—
Cush and Put,
who are able to handle shields,
and the Ludim,
who are able to handle and string the bow.
Joel 3:9-11
Prepare for holy war;
rouse the warriors;
let all the men of war advance and attack!