Nahum 3:14
ContextNET © | 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 |
NIV © | Draw water for the siege, strengthen your defences! Work the clay, tread the mortar, repair the brickwork! |
NASB © | Draw for yourself water for the siege! Strengthen your fortifications! Go into the clay and tread the mortar! Take hold of the brick mold! |
NLT © | 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! |
MSG © | Store up water for the siege. Shore up your defenses. Get down to basics: Work the clay and make bricks. |
BBE © | 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. |
NRSV © | Draw water for the siege, strengthen your forts; trample the clay, tread the mortar, take hold of the brick mold! |
NKJV © | Draw your water for the siege! Fortify your strongholds! Go into the clay and tread the mortar! Make strong the brick kiln! |
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HEBREW | |
LXXM | plinyon {N-ASF} |
NET © [draft] ITL | |
NET © | 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 |
NET © Notes |
1 tn Heb “waters of siege.” 2 tn Heb “go into the mud.” 3 tn Heb “Take hold of the mud-brick mold!” |