For if you go and fight courageously in battle, God will overthrow you before the enemy, for God has power to help and to bring down.”
Nahum 2:1 - Tree of Life Version Behold, upon the mountains are the feet of him bringing good news, proclaiming shalom. O Judah, celebrate your festivals! Fulfill your vows! For never again will Belial pass through you. He has been utterly cut off. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 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 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) 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 A scatterer has come up against you. Guard the ramparts, watch the road, protect your groin, save your strength! Catholic Public Domain Version He ascends, who would scatter before your eyes, who would maintain the blockade. Contemplate the way, fortify your back, reinforce virtue greatly. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version He is come up that shall destroy before thy face, that shall keep the siege: watch the way, fortify thy loins, strengthen thy power exceedingly. |
For if you go and fight courageously in battle, God will overthrow you before the enemy, for God has power to help and to bring down.”
Offer God a sacrifice of thank offerings, then fulfill your vows to Elyon.
Praise is awaiting You in Zion, O God, and to You the vow will be fulfilled.
which struck the people in wrath with continual strokes, which ruled the nations in fury, with relentless persecution.
It will be like a dream, a night vision: the multitude of all the nations warring against Ariel, yes, all warring against her, the ramparts around her and her besiegers.
It will be like a hungry man dreaming and behold, he is eating, but awakes with his hunger unsatisfied, or like a thirsty man dreaming and behold, he is drinking, but awakes faint, his soul thirsting. So it will be with the multitude of all the nations warring against Mount Zion.
How beautiful on the mountains are the feet of him who brings good news, who announces shalom, who brings good news of happiness, who announces salvation, who says to Zion, “Your God reigns!”
I will soon send for and bring all the families of the north”—it is a declaration of Adonai—“and I will send for King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon, My servant, and will bring them against this land, and against its inhabitants, and against all these nations round about, and I will utterly destroy them, and make them a horror, and a hissing, an enduring desolation.
How the hammer of the whole earth has been cut down and smashed! How Babylon has become a horror among the nations!