Nahum 2:6 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁶ The river gates are opened; the palace trembles.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁶ The gates of the rivers shall be opened, and the palace shall be dissolved.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁶ The gates or dams of the rivers [surrounding and guarding Nineveh] are opened and the [imperial] palace [of sun-dried brick] is dissolved [by the torrents] and is in dismay.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁶ The gates of the rivers are opened, and the palace is dissolved.

Common English Bible

⁶ The gates of the rivers are opened; the palace melts.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁶ The gates of the rivers have been opened, and the temple has been pulled down to the ground.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁶ The gates of the rivers are opened, and the temple is thrown down to the ground.

Nahum 2:6 Cross References

Nahum 2:5

He calls his officers; they stumble as they come forward; they hasten to the wall, and the screen is set up.

Nahum 2:7

It is decreed that the city be exiled, its slave women led away, moaning like doves and beating their breasts.

Nahum 3:13

Look at your troops: they are women in your midst. The gates of your land are wide open to your foes; fire has devoured the bars of your gates.