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


In Context

11 You also will be drunken. You will be hidden. You also will seek a stronghold because of the enemy.

12 All your fortresses will be like fig trees with the first-ripe figs: if they are shaken, they fall into the mouth of the eater.

13 Behold, your troops in your midst are women. The gates of your land are set wide open to your enemies. The fire has devoured your bars.

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

15 There the fire will devour you. The sword will cut you off. It will devour you like the grasshopper. Multiply like grasshoppers. Multiply like the locust.

16 You have increased your merchants more than the stars of the skies. The grasshopper strips, and flees 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 New International Version of the Holy Bible

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

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 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.