6The gates of the rivers are opened, and the palace is dissolved.


In Context

3 The shield of his mighty men is made red, the valiant men are in scarlet: the chariots flash with steel in the day of his preparation, and the cypress'spears are brandished.

4 The chariots rage in the streets; they rush to and fro in the broad ways: the appearance of them is like torches; they run like the lightnings.

5 He remembereth his nobles: they stumble in their march; they make haste to the wall thereof, and the mantelet is prepared.

6 The gates of the rivers are opened, and the palace is dissolved.

7 And it is decreed: she is uncovered, she is carried away; and her handmaids moan as with the voice of doves, beating upon their breasts.

8 But Nineveh hath been from of old like a pool of water: yet they flee away. Stand, stand, they cry ; but none looketh back.

Nahum 2:6 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

2:6The gates of the rivers shall be opened, and the palace shall be dissolved.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

2:6The river gates are thrown open and the palace collapses.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

2:6The gates of the rivers are opened, and the temple is thrown down to the ground.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

2:6The gates of the rivers are opened, and the palace melteth away.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

2:6The gates of the rivers are opened, and the palace is dissolved.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

2:6The gates of the rivers shall be opened, and the palace shall be dissolved.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

2:6The gates of the rivers are opened, and the palace is dissolved.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

2:6Gates of the rivers have been opened, And the palace is dissolved.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

2:6The gates of the rivers shall be opened, and the palace shall be dissolved.