Nahum 3:2 “The crack of the whip, the rumble of the wheel, galloping horse and bo…”

Nahum 3:2

The crack of the whip, the rumble of the wheel, galloping horse and bounding chariot!

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

The noise of a whip, and the noise of the rattling of the wheels, and of the pransing horses, and of the jumping chariots.

World English Bible

The noise of the whip, the noise of the rattling of wheels, prancing horses, and bounding chariots,

American Standard Version

The noise of the whip, and the noise of the rattling of wheels, and prancing horses, and bounding chariots,

Geneva Bible 1599

The noyse of a whippe, and the noyse of the mouing of the wheeles, and the beating of the horses, and the leaping of the charets.

Darby Translation

The crack of the whip, and the noise of the rattling of the wheels, and of the prancing horses, and of the bounding chariots!

Young's Literal Translation

The sound of a whip, And the sound of the rattling of a wheel, And of a prancing horse, and of a bounding chariot, Of a horseman mounting.

Bible in Basic English

The noise of the whip, and the noise of thundering wheels; horses rushing and war-carriages jumping,

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Cross references

“noise”

Jeremiah 47:3 Judges 5:22 Job 39:22–25 Isaiah 9:5 Nahum 2:3 Nahum 2:4

Jeremiah 47:3 · BSB

at the sound of the galloping hooves of stallions, the rumbling of chariots, and the clatter of their wheels. The fathers will not turn back for their sons; their hands will hang limp.

Judges 5:22 · BSB

Then the hooves of horses thundered— the mad galloping of his stallions.

Job 39:22–25 · BSB

He laughs at fear, frightened of nothing; he does not turn back from the sword.

Isaiah 9:5 · BSB

For every trampling boot of battle and every garment rolled in blood will be burned as fuel for the fire.

Nahum 2:3 · BSB

The shields of his mighty men are red; the valiant warriors are dressed in scarlet. The fittings of the chariots flash like fire on the day they are prepared, and the spears of cypress have been brandished.

Nahum 2:4 · BSB

The chariots dash through the streets; they rush around the plazas, appearing like torches, darting about like lightning.

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

In context

1Woe to the city of blood, full of lies, full of plunder, never without prey.

3Charging horseman, flashing sword, shining spear; heaps of slain, mounds of corpses, dead bodies without end— they stumble over their dead—

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