Nahum 2:4 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁴ The chariots race madly through the streets; they rush to and fro through the squares; their appearance is like torches; they dart like lightning.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁴ The chariots shall rage in the streets, they shall justle one against another in the broad ways: they shall seem like torches, they shall run like the lightnings.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁴ The chariots rage in confusion in the streets; they run to and fro [in wild terror] in the broad ways. They flash with steel [making them appear like torches]; they rush [in various directions] like forked lightnings.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁴ The chariots rage in the streets; they rush to and fro in the broad ways: the appearance of them is like torches; they run like the lightnings.

Common English Bible

⁴ The chariots race wildly through the streets; they rush back and forth through the squares. They look like flaming torches; they dart like bolts of lightning.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁴ They have become confused on their journey. The four-horse chariots have collided in the streets. Their appearance is like torches, like lightning dashing around.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁴ They are in confusion in the ways, the chariots jostle one against another in the streets: their looks are like torches, like lightning running to and fro.

Nahum 2:4 Cross References

Proverbs 31:21

She is not afraid for her household when it snows, for all her household are clothed in crimson.

Isaiah 37:24

By your servants you have mocked the Lord, and you have said, ‘With my many chariots I have gone up the heights of the mountains, to the far recesses of Lebanon; I felled its tallest cedars, its choicest cypresses; I came to its remotest height, its densest forest.

Isaiah 66:15

For the Lord will come in fire and his chariots in a whirlwind, to vent his anger in fury and his rebuke in flames of fire.

Jeremiah 4:13

Look! He comes up like clouds, his chariots like the whirlwind; his horses are swifter than eagles— woe to us, for we are ruined!

Jeremiah 46:9

Advance, O horses, and dash madly, O chariots! Let the warriors go forth: Cush and Put, who carry the shield, the Ludim, who draw the bow.

Ezekiel 23:24

They shall come against you from the north with chariots and wagons and a host of peoples; they shall set themselves against you on every side with buckler, shield, and helmet, and I will commit the judgment to them, and they shall judge you according to their ordinances.

Ezekiel 26:10

His horses shall be so many that their dust shall cover you. At the noise of cavalry, wheels, and chariots your very walls shall shake when he enters your gates like those entering a breached city.

Ezekiel 26:7

For thus says the Lord God: I will bring against Tyre from the north King Nebuchadrezzar of Babylon, king of kings, together with horses, chariots, cavalry, and a great and powerful army.

Daniel 11:40

“At the time of the end the king of the south shall attack him. But the king of the north shall rush upon him like a whirlwind, with chariots and horsemen and with many ships. He shall advance against countries and pass through like a flood.