Nahum 2:1 “One who scatters advances against you, O Nineveh. Guard the fortress!…”

Nahum 2:1

One who scatters advances against you, O Nineveh. Guard the fortress! Watch the road! Brace yourselves! Summon all your strength!

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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.

World English Bible

He who dashes in pieces has come up against you. Keep the fortress! Watch the way! Strengthen your waist! Fortify your power mightily!

American Standard Version

He that dasheth in pieces is come up against thee: keep the fortress, watch the way, make thy loins strong, fortify thy power mightily.

Geneva Bible 1599

The destroyer is come before thy face: keepe the munition: looke to the way: make thy loynes strong: increase thy strength mightily.

Darby Translation

He that dasheth in pieces is come up against thy face: keep the fortress, watch the way, make [thy] loins strong, fortify [thy] power mightily.

Young's Literal Translation

Come up hath a scatterer to thy face, Keep the bulwark, watch the way, Strengthen the loins, strengthen power mightily.

Bible in Basic English

A crusher has come up before your face: keep a good look-out, let the way be watched, make yourself strong, let your power be greatly increased.

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Cross references

“He that dasheth in pieces”

Jeremiah 51:20–23 Jeremiah 50:23 Isaiah 14:6 Jeremiah 25:9

Jeremiah 51:20–23 · BSB

“You are My war club, My weapon for battle. With you I shatter nations; with you I bring kingdoms to ruin.

Jeremiah 50:23 · BSB

How the hammer of the whole earth lies broken and shattered! What a horror Babylon has become among the nations!

Isaiah 14:6 · BSB

It struck the peoples in anger with unceasing blows; it subdued the nations in rage with relentless persecution.

Jeremiah 25:9 · BSB

behold, I will summon all the families of the north, declares the LORD, and I will send for My servant Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, whom I will bring against this land, against its residents, and against all the surro…

“keep”

Joel 3:9–11 2 Chronicles 25:8 Jeremiah 46:3–10 Nahum 3:14 Nahum 3:15 Jeremiah 51:11

Joel 3:9–11 · BSB

Proclaim this among the nations: “Prepare for war; rouse the mighty men; let all the men of war advance and attack!

2 Chronicles 25:8 · BSB

Even if you go and fight bravely in battle, God will overthrow you before the enemy, for God has power to help and power to overthrow.”

Jeremiah 46:3–10 · BSB

“Deploy your shields, small and large; advance for battle!

Nahum 3:14 · BSB

Draw your water for the siege; strengthen your fortresses. Work the clay and tread the mortar; repair the brick kiln!

Nahum 3:15 · BSB

There the fire will devour you; the sword will cut you down and consume you like a young locust. Make yourself many like the young locust; make yourself many like the swarming locust!

Jeremiah 51:11 · BSB

Sharpen the arrows! Fill the quivers! The LORD has aroused the spirit of the kings of the Medes, because His plan is aimed at Babylon to destroy her, for it is the vengeance of the LORD— vengeance for His temple.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

2For the LORD will restore the splendor of Jacob like the splendor of Israel, though destroyers have laid them waste and ruined the branches of their vine.

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