Is not Hezekiah misleading you, handing you over to die by famine and by thirst, when he tells you, ‘The Lord our God will save us from the hand of the king of Assyria’?
Nahum 3:14 - New Revised Standard Version Catholic Interconfessional Draw water for the siege, strengthen your forts; trample the clay, tread the mortar, take hold of the brick mold! Higit pang mga bersyonKing 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 misleading you, handing you over to die by famine and by thirst, when he tells you, ‘The Lord our God will save us from the hand of the king of Assyria’?
I dug wells and drank waters, I dried up with the sole of my foot all the streams of Egypt.”
Band together, you peoples, and be dismayed; listen, all you far countries; gird yourselves and be dismayed; gird yourselves and be dismayed!
Advance, O horses, and dash madly, O chariots! Let the warriors go forth: Ethiopia and Put who carry the shield, the Ludim, who draw the bow.
A shatterer has come up against you. Guard the ramparts; watch the road; gird your loins; collect all your strength.
(For the Lord is restoring the majesty of Jacob, as well as the majesty of Israel, though ravagers have ravaged them and ruined their branches.)