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


In Context

11 You too will become drunk; you will go into hiding and seek refuge from the enemy.

12 All your fortresses are like fig trees with their first ripe fruit; when they are shaken, the figs fall into the mouth of the eater.

13 Look at your troops- they are all women! The gates of your land are wide open to your enemies; fire has consumed their bars.

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

15 There the fire will devour you; the sword will cut you down and, like grasshoppers, consume you. Multiply like grasshoppers, multiply like locusts!

16 You have increased the number of your merchants till they are more than the stars of the sky, but like locusts they strip the land and then fly away.

Nahum 3:14 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

3:14Draw thee waters for the siege, fortify thy strong holds: go into clay, and tread the morter, make strong the brickkiln.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

3:14Draw thee water for the siege; strengthen thy fortresses; go into the clay, and tread the mortar; make strong the brickkiln.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

3:14Draw thee water for the siege, build up thy bulwarks: go into the clay, and tread, work it and make brick.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

3:14Draw thee water for the siege, strengthen thy fortresses; go into the clay, and tread the mortar, make strong the brick-kiln.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

3:14Draw thee water for the siege, strengthen thy fortresses: go into the clay, and tread the mortar, make strong the brickkiln.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

3:14Draw thee waters for the siege, fortify thy strong holds: go into clay, and tread the mortar, make strong the brick-kiln.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

3:14Draw water for the siege. Strengthen your fortresses. Go into the clay, and tread the mortar. Make the brick kiln strong.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

3:14Waters of a siege draw for thyself, Strengthen thy fortresses, Enter into mire, and tread on clay, Make strong a brick-kiln.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

3:14Draw you waters for the siege, fortify your strong holds: go into clay, and tread the mortar, make strong the brick kiln.