Nahum 2:1 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

¹ Take ye the spoil of the silver, take the spoil of the gold: for there is no end of the riches of all the precious furniture.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹ 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

¹ 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)

¹ 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

¹ A scatterer has come up against you. Guard the ramparts, watch the road, protect your groin, save your strength!

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹ He ascends, who would scatter before your eyes, who would maintain the blockade. Contemplate the way, fortify your back, reinforce virtue greatly.

Nahum 2:1 Cross References

2 Chronicles 25:8

3 But that army which Amasias had sent back, that they should not go with him to battle, spread themselves among the cities of Juda, from Samaria to Beth-horon, and having killed three thousand took away much spoil.

Psalm 50:14

1 these things hast thou done, and I was silent. Thou thoughtest unjustly that I should be like to thee: but I will reprove thee, and set before thy face.

Psalm 65:2

Thou hast visited the earth, and hast plentifully watered it; thou hast many ways enriched it. The river of God is filled with water, thou hast prepared their food: for so is its preparation.

Isaiah 14:6

4 I will ascend above the height of the clouds, I will be like the most High.

Isaiah 29:7

5 Woe to you that are deep of heart, to hide your counsel from the Lord: and their works are in the dark, and they say: Who seeth us, and who knoweth us?

Isaiah 29:8

6 This thought of yours is perverse: as if the clay should think against the potter, and the work should say to the maker thereof: Thou madest me not: or the thing framed should say to him that fashioned it: Thou understandest not.

Isaiah 52:7

5 He shall sprinkle many nations, kings shall shut their mouth at him: for they to whom it was not told of him, have seen: and they that heard not, have beheld.

Jeremiah 25:9

7 And I took the cup at the hand of the Lord, and I presented it to all the nations to drink of it, to which the Lord sent me:

Jeremiah 50:23

1 Behold I come against thee, O proud one, saith the Lord the God of hosts: for thy day is come, the time of thy visitation.