Nahum 3:14

Draw yourselves water for a siege! ¹  Strengthen your fortifications! Trample the mud ²  and tread the clay! Make mud bricks to strengthen your walls! ³ 

Draw water for the siege, strengthen your defences! Work the clay, tread the mortar, repair the brickwork!

Draw for yourself water for the siege! Strengthen your fortifications! Go into the clay and tread the mortar! Take hold of the brick mold!

Get ready for the siege! Store up water! Strengthen the defenses! Make bricks to repair the walls! Go into the pits to trample clay, and pack it into molds!

Store up water for the siege. Shore up your defenses. Get down to basics: Work the clay and make bricks.

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.

Draw water for the siege, strengthen your forts; trample the clay, tread the mortar, take hold of the brick mold!

Draw your water for the siege! Fortify your strongholds! Go into the clay and tread the mortar! Make strong the brick kiln!

Draw yourselves water for a siege! ¹  Strengthen your fortifications! Trample the mud ²  and tread the clay! Make mud bricks to strengthen your walls! ³ 

¹ tn Heb “waters of siege.”

² tn Heb “go into the mud.”

³ tn Heb “Take hold of the mud-brick mold!”