Does not Hezekiah persuade you to give over yourselves to die by famine and by thirst, saying, The LORD our God shall deliver us out of the hand of the king of Assyria?
Nahum 3:14 - King James 2000 Draw your water for the siege, fortify your strongholds: go into the clay, and tread the mortar, make strong the brick kiln. 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. |
Does not Hezekiah persuade you to give over yourselves to die by famine and by thirst, saying, The LORD our God shall deliver us out of the hand of the king of Assyria?
I have dug, and drunk water; and with the soles of my feet have I dried up all the streams of Egypt.
Be shattered, O you people, you shall be broken in pieces; and give ear, all you from far countries: gird yourselves, and you shall be broken in pieces; gird yourselves, and you shall be broken in pieces.
Come up, you horses; and rage, you chariots; and let the mighty men come forth; the Ethiopians and the Libyans, that handle the shield; and the Lydians, that handle and bend the bow.
He that dashes in pieces has come up before your face: keep the fortress, watch the road, make your flanks strong, fortify your power mightily.
For the LORD will restore the excellence of Jacob, as the excellence of Israel: for the plunderers have emptied them out, and marred their vine branches.