Nahum 2:1 - The Scriptures 1998

¹ He who breaks in pieces has come up before your face. Guard the ramparts! Watch the way! Strengthen your loins! Strengthen your power greatly.

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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

“But if you are going, do it! Be strong in battle, else Elohim would make you fall before the enemy, for Elohim has power to help and to overthrow.”

Psalm 50:14

“Offer thanksgiving to Elohim, And pay your vows to the Most High.

Psalm 65:2

To You who hears all prayer, all flesh comes.

Isaiah 14:6

he who smote the people in wrath with ceaseless blows, he who ruled the gentiles in displeasure, is persecuted and no one restrains.

Isaiah 29:7

Then the crowd of all the gentiles who fight against Ari’ĕ

Isaiah 29:8

And it shall be as when a hungry man dreams, and see, he eats; but he awakes, and his being is empty; or as when a thirsty man dreams, and see, he drinks; but he awakes, and see, he is faint, and his being is longing. Thus shall the crowd of all the gentiles be who fight against Mount Tsiyon.

Isaiah 52:7

How pleasant upon the mountains are the feet of him who brings good news, who proclaims peace, who brings good news, who proclaims deliverance, who says to Tsiyon, “Your Elohim reigns!”

Jeremiah 25:9

see, I am sending and taking all the tribes of the north,’ declares יהוה, ‘and Neḇ

Jeremiah 50:23

“How the hammer of all the earth has been cut off and broken! How Baḇ