Is not Hezekiah stimulating you to give yourselves to die by famine and by thirst, saying, Jehovah our God will deliver us from the hand of the king of Assur?
Nahum 3:14 - Julia E. Smith Translation 1876 Draw the water of the siege to thee, strengthen thy fortresses go into clay, tread upon the clay, hold fast from the brick. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 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 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) Draw thee water for the siege; strengthen thy fortresses; go into the clay, and tread the mortar; make strong the brickkiln. Common English Bible 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 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 Draw thee water for the siege, build up thy bulwarks: go into the clay, and tread, work it and make brick. |
Is not Hezekiah stimulating you to give yourselves to die by famine and by thirst, saying, Jehovah our God will deliver us from the hand of the king of Assur?
I dug and drank water; and I will dry up with the sole of my footstep all the rivers of Egypt,
Make friendship, ye peoples, and be broken in pieces; and give ear, every land from afar; be girded and be broken in pieces; be girded and be broken in pieces.
Come up, ye horses; and rage, ye chariots; and the strong ones shall come forth: Cush and Phut seizing the shield; and the Ludims, bending the bow.
The hammer came up upon thy face: press upon the fortress, look about the way, strengthen the loins, make the power strong greatly.
For Jehovah turned back the pride of Jacob as the pride of Israel: for they emptying emptied them out, they corrupted their vineshoots