Nahum 3:14 “Draw your water for the siege; strengthen your fortresses. Work the cl…”

Nahum 3:14

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

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Draw thee waters for the siege, fortify thy strong holds: go into clay, and tread the morter, make strong the brickkiln.

World English Bible

Draw water for the siege. Strengthen your fortresses. Go into the clay, and tread the mortar. Make the brick kiln strong.

American Standard Version

Draw thee water for the siege; strengthen thy fortresses; go into the clay, and tread the mortar; make strong the brickkiln.

Geneva Bible 1599

Drawe thee waters for the siege: fortifie thy strong holdes: go into the clay, and temper the morter: make strong bricke.

Darby Translation

Draw thee water for the siege, strengthen thy fortresses; go into the clay, and tread the mortar, make strong the brick-kiln.

Young's Literal Translation

Waters of a siege draw for thyself, Strengthen thy fortresses, Enter into mire, and tread on clay, Make strong a brick-kiln.

Bible in Basic English

Get water for the time when you are shut in, make strong your towns: go into the potter's earth, stamping it down with your feet, make strong the brickworks.

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Cross references

“Draw”

2 Chronicles 32:11 Isaiah 22:9–11 Isaiah 37:25 2 Chronicles 32:3 2 Chronicles 32:4

2 Chronicles 32:11 · BSB

Is not Hezekiah misleading you to give you over to death by famine and thirst when he says, ‘The LORD our God will deliver us from the hand of the king of Assyria?’

Isaiah 22:9–11 · BSB

You saw that there were many breaches in the walls of the City of David. You collected water from the lower pool.

Isaiah 37:25 · BSB

I have dug wells and drunk foreign waters. With the soles of my feet I have dried up all the streams of Egypt.”

2 Chronicles 32:3 · BSB

he consulted with his leaders and mighty men about stopping up the waters of the springs outside the city, and they helped him carry it out.

2 Chronicles 32:4 · BSB

Many people assembled and stopped up all the springs and the stream that flowed through the land. “Why should the kings of Assyria come and find plenty of water?” they said.

“fortify”

Nahum 2:1 Isaiah 8:9 Jeremiah 46:9 Joel 3:9–11 Jeremiah 46:3 Jeremiah 46:4

Nahum 2:1 · BSB

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

Isaiah 8:9 · BSB

Huddle together, O peoples, and be shattered; pay attention, all you distant lands; prepare for battle, and be shattered; prepare for battle, and be shattered!

Jeremiah 46:9 · BSB

Advance, O horses! Race furiously, O chariots! Let the warriors come forth— Cush and Put carrying their shields, men of Lydia drawing the bow.

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!

Jeremiah 46:3 · BSB

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

Jeremiah 46:4 · BSB

Harness the horses; mount the steeds; take your positions with helmets on! Polish your spears; put on armor!

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

In context

13Look at your troops— they are like your women! The gates of your land are wide open to your enemies; fire consumes their bars.

15There 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!

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