Nahum 3:14 Draw water for the siege, strengthen your defenses! Work the clay, tread the mortar, repair the brickwork!

Nahum 3:14

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New International Version (©1984)
Draw water for the siege, strengthen your defenses! Work the clay, tread the mortar, repair the brickwork!

New Living Translation (©2007)
Get ready for the siege! Store up water! Strengthen the defenses! Go into the pits to trample clay, and pack it into molds, making bricks to repair the walls.

English Standard Version (©2001)
Draw water for the siege; strengthen your forts; go into the clay; tread the mortar; take hold of the brick mold!

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
Draw for yourself water for the siege! Strengthen your fortifications! Go into the clay and tread the mortar! Take hold of the brick mold!

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
Store water for the siege! Strengthen your defenses! Step into the claypits and trample the clay! Grab the brick mold!

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

American King James Version
Draw you waters for the siege, fortify your strong holds: go into clay, and tread the mortar, make strong the brick kiln.

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

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.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Draw thee water for the siege, build up thy bulwarks: go into the clay, and tread, work it and make brick.

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

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

Webster's Bible Translation
Draw thee waters for the siege, fortify thy strong holds: go into clay, and tread the mortar, make strong the brick-kiln.

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

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.

Geneva Study Bible

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

3:14 Draw thee waters - Fill all thy cisterns, and draw the waters into the ditches. Tread the mortar - Set thy brick - makers on work to prepare store of materials for thy fortifications.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

14. Ironical exhortation to Nineveh to defend herself.

Draw . waters-so as not to be without water for drinking, in the event of being cut off by the besiegers from the fountains.

make strong the brick-kiln-or "repair" [Maurer]; so as to have a supply of bricks formed of kiln-burnt clay, to repair breaches in the ramparts, or to build new fortifications inside when the outer ones are taken by the foe.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

3:8-19 Strong-holds, even the strongest, are no defence against the judgments of God. They shall be unable to do any thing for themselves. The Chaldeans and Medes would devour the land like canker-worms. The Assyrians also would be eaten up by their own numerous hired troops, which seem to be meant by the word rendered merchants. Those that have done evil to their neighbours, will find it come home to them. Nineveh, and many other cities, states, and empires, have been ruined, and should be a warning to us. Are we better, except as there are some true Christians amongst us, who are a greater security, and a stronger defence, than all the advantages of situation or strength? When the Lord shows himself against a people, every thing they trust in must fail, or prove a disadvantage; but he continues good to Israel. He is a strong-hold for every believer in time of trouble, that cannot be stormed or taken; and he knoweth those that trust in Him.

2 Chronicles 32:3 he decided with his officers and his warriors to cut off the supply of water from the springs which were outside the city, and they helped him.

2 Chronicles 32:4 So many people assembled and stopped up all the springs and the stream which flowed through the region, saying, "Why should the kings of Assyria come and find abundant water?"

Nahum 2:1 The one who scatters has come up against you. Man the fortress, watch the road; Strengthen your back, summon all your strength. (NASB ©1995)

Brick Brickkiln Brick-kiln Brickmould Brickwork Brickworks Clay Defenses Draw Enter Fortifications Fortify Fortresses Forts Hold Holds Kiln Lay Mire Mold Mortar Morter Potter's Repair Shut Siege Stamping Strengthen Strong Thyself Towns Tread Waters

Brick Brickkiln Brick-Kiln Clay Defenses Draw Earth Feet Fortifications Fortify Fortresses Forts Hold Holds Kiln Lay Mortar Morter Potter's Repair Shut Siege Stamping Strengthen Strong Time Towns Tread Water Waters Work

Brick Brickkiln Brick-Kiln Clay Defenses Draw Earth Feet Fortifications Fortify Fortresses Forts Hold Holds Kiln Lay Mortar Morter Potter's Repair Shut Siege Stamping Strengthen Strong Time Towns Tread Water Waters Work

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

Draw. 2Ch 32:3,4,11 Isa 22:9-11 37:25

fortify. 2:1 Isa 8:9 Jer 46:3,4,9 Joe 3:9-11

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Alphabetical: and brick brickwork clay defenses Draw for fortifications Go hold into mold mortar of repair siege strengthen Take the tread water Work your yourself

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