KJV King James Version
Draw thee waters for the siege, fortify thy strong holds: go into clay, and tread the morter, make strong the brickkiln.
VERSE STUDY • KJV
Nahum 3:14
Draw thee waters for the siege, fortify thy strong holds: go into clay, and tread the morter, make strong the brickkiln.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
Draw your water for the siege; strengthen your fortresses. Work the clay and tread the mortar; repair the brick kiln!
WEB World English Bible
Draw water for the siege. Strengthen your fortresses. Go into the clay, and tread the mortar. Make the brick kiln strong.
ASV American Standard Version
Draw thee water for the siege; strengthen thy fortresses; go into the clay, and tread the mortar; make strong the brickkiln.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
Waters of a siege draw for thyself, Strengthen thy fortresses, Enter into mire, and tread on clay, Make strong a brick-kiln.
Surrounding context — Nahum 3
11 Thou also shalt be drunken: thou shalt be hid, thou also shalt seek strength because of the enemy.
12 All thy strong holds [shall be like] fig trees with the firstripe figs: if they be shaken, they shall even fall into the mouth of the eater.
13 Behold, thy people in the midst of thee [are] women: the gates of thy land shall be set wide open unto thine enemies: the fire shall devour thy bars.
14 Draw thee waters for the siege, fortify thy strong holds: go into clay, and tread the morter, make strong the brickkiln.
15 There shall the fire devour thee; the sword shall cut thee off, it shall eat thee up like the cankerworm: make thyself many as the cankerworm, make thyself many as the locusts.
16 Thou hast multiplied thy merchants above the stars of heaven: the cankerworm spoileth, and flieth away.
17 Thy crowned [are] as the locusts, and thy captains as the great grasshoppers, which camp in the hedges in the cold day, [but] when the sun ariseth they flee away, and their place is not known where they [are].
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Original-language word links
These Hebrew/Greek tokens are linked by Strong's number. Click one for its lexicon definition and other occurrences.
מֵ֤יH4325 · ma.yimwaterמָצוֹר֙H4692 · ma.tsorsiegeשַֽׁאֲבִי־H7579 · sha.avto drawלָ֔ךְH9032 · khyouחַזְּקִ֖יH2388 · cha.zaqto strengthen: strengthenמִבְצָרָ֑יִךְH4013 · miv.tsarfortificationבֹּ֧אִיH935 · boto come (in): comeבַטִּ֛יטH2916 · titmudוְרִמְסִ֥יH7429 · ra.masto trampleבַחֹ֖מֶרH2563 · cho.merclayהַחֲזִ֥יקִיH2388 · cha.zaqto strengthen: strengthenמַלְבֵּֽן׃H4404 · mal.benbrick
Cross-references
2 Chronicles 32:3-4He took counsel with his princes and his mighty men to stop the waters of the fountains which [were] without the city: and they did help him.Nahum 2:1He that dasheth in pieces is come up before thy face: keep the munition, watch the way, make [thy] loins strong, fortify [thy] power mightily.Jeremiah 46:3-4Order ye the buckler and shield, and draw near to battle.2 Chronicles 32:11Doth not Hezekiah persuade you to give over yourselves to die by famine and by thirst, saying, The LORD our God shall deliver us out of the hand of the king of Assyria?Isaiah 22:9-11Ye have seen also the breaches of the city of David, that they are many: and ye gathered together the waters of the lower pool.Isaiah 8:9Associate yourselves, O ye people, and ye shall be broken in pieces; and give ear, all ye of far countries: gird yourselves, and ye shall be broken in pieces; gird yourselves, and ye shall be broken in pieces.Jeremiah 46:9Come up, ye horses; and rage, ye chariots; and let the mighty men come forth; the Ethiopians and the Libyans, that handle the shield; and the Lydians, that handle [and] bend the bow.Joel 3:9-11Proclaim ye this among the Gentiles; Prepare war, wake up the mighty men, let all the men of war draw near; let them come up:Isaiah 37:25I have digged, and drunk water; and with the sole of my feet have I dried up all the rivers of the besieged places.
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