Nahum 2:1 - Julia E. Smith Translation 1876

¹ The hammer came up upon thy face: press upon the fortress, look about the way, strengthen the loins, make the power strong 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.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹ 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.

Nahum 2:1 Tagairtí Cros

2 Chronicles 25:8

For if thou goest, to be strong for war: God will cause thee to falter before the enemy, for there is power with God to help and to cause to falter.

Psalm 50:14

Sacrifice to God thanksgiving, and repay thy vows to the Most High:

Psalm 65:2

Hear thou prayer: even to thee shall all flesh come.

Isaiah 14:6

Striking the peoples in wrath a blow not removed, bringing down the nations in anger; pursuing, not sparing.

Isaiah 29:7

And it was as a dream of a vision of the night, the multitude of all the nations warring against Ariel and all warring against her and her fastnesses, and those pressing upon her.

Isaiah 29:8

And it was as when the hungry shall dream, and behold, he ate; and he awoke and his soul was empty: and as when the thirsty shall dream, and behold, he drank, and he awoke, and behold, he fainted, and his soul desired: thus shall be the multitude of all the nations warring against mount Zion.

Isaiah 52:7

How exalted upon the mountains the feet of him announcing good news, causing peace to be beard: announcing good news of good, causing salvation to be heard; saying to Zion, Thy God reigns!

Jeremiah 25:9

Behold me sending, and I took all the families of the north, says Jehovah, to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babel, my servant, and I brought them against this land and against its inhabitants, and against all these nations round about, and I devoted them to destruction, and I set them for a desolation and for a hissing, and for perpetual wastes.

Jeremiah 50:23

How was the hammer of all the earth cut off, and it will be broken! How was Babel for a desolation among the nations!