But if you suppose that in this way you will be strong for war, God will cast you down before the enemy; for God has power to help or to cast down.”
Nahum 2:1 - Revised Standard Version The shatterer has come up against you. Man the ramparts; watch the road; gird your loins; collect all your strength. Dugang nga mga bersyonKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 He that dasheth in pieces is come up before thy face: keep the munition, watch the way, make thy loins strong, fortify thy power mightily. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition HE WHO dashes in pieces [that is, the king of Medo-Babylon] is come up before your face [Nineveh]. Keep the fortress and ramparts manned, watch the road, gird your loins, collect and fortify all your strength and power mightily. American Standard Version (1901) He that dasheth in pieces is come up against thee: keep the fortress, watch the way, make thy loins strong, fortify thy power mightily. Common English Bible A scatterer has come up against you. Guard the ramparts, watch the road, protect your groin, save your strength! Catholic Public Domain Version He ascends, who would scatter before your eyes, who would maintain the blockade. Contemplate the way, fortify your back, reinforce virtue greatly. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version He is come up that shall destroy before thy face, that shall keep the siege: watch the way, fortify thy loins, strengthen thy power exceedingly. |
But if you suppose that in this way you will be strong for war, God will cast you down before the enemy; for God has power to help or to cast down.”
Offer to God a sacrifice of thanksgiving, and pay your vows to the Most High;
that smote the peoples in wrath with unceasing blows, that ruled the nations in anger with unrelenting persecution.
And the multitude of all the nations that fight against Ariel, all that fight against her and her stronghold and distress her, shall be like a dream, a vision of the night.
As when a hungry man dreams he is eating and awakes with his hunger not satisfied, or as when a thirsty man dreams he is drinking and awakes faint, with his thirst not quenched, so shall the multitude of all the nations be that fight against Mount Zion.
How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him who brings good tidings, who publishes peace, who brings good tidings of good, who publishes salvation, who says to Zion, “Your God reigns.”
behold, I will send for all the tribes of the north, says the Lord, and for Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and I will bring them against this land and its inhabitants, and against all these nations round about; I will utterly destroy them, and make them a horror, a hissing, and an everlasting reproach.
How the hammer of the whole earth is cut down and broken! How Babylon has become a horror among the nations!