Nahum 3:14 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

¹⁴ Draw water for the siege, strengthen your forts; go into the clay, tread the mortar, take hold of the brick mold!

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁴ Draw thee waters for the siege, fortify thy strong holds: go into clay, and tread the morter, make strong the brickkiln.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁴ Draw for yourself the water [necessary] for a [long continued] siege, make strong your fortresses! Go down into the clay pits and trample the mortar; make ready the brickkiln [to burn bricks for the bulwarks]!

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁴ Draw thee water for the siege; strengthen thy fortresses; go into the clay, and tread the mortar; make strong the brickkiln.

Common English Bible

¹⁴ Draw water for yourself to prepare for siege! Strengthen your fortifications! Tread the clay, trample the mortar, grab the brick mold!

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁴ Draw in water because of the blockade; build up your fortresses. Go into the clay and tread; work it to make brick.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁴ Draw thee water for the siege, build up thy bulwarks: go into the clay, and tread, work it and make brick.

Nahum 3:14 Cross References

2 Chronicles 32:11

Is not Hezekiah misleading you, that he may give you over to die by famine and by thirst, when he tells you, “The Lord our God will deliver us from the hand of the king of Assyria”?

Isaiah 37:25

I dug wells and drank waters, and I dried up with the sole of my foot all the streams of Egypt.

Isaiah 8:9

Be broken, you peoples, and be dismayed; give ear, all you far countries; gird yourselves and be dismayed; gird yourselves and be dismayed.

Jeremiah 46:9

Advance, O horses, and rage, O chariots! Let the warriors go forth: men of Ethiopia and Put who handle the shield, men of Lud, skilled in handling the bow.

Nahum 2:1

The shatterer has come up against you. Man the ramparts; watch the road; gird your loins; collect all your strength.

Nahum 2:2

(For the Lord is restoring the majesty of Jacob as the majesty of Israel, for plunderers have stripped them and ruined their branches.)