Nahum 3:14
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Draw your water for the siege; strengthen your fortresses. Work the clay and tread the mortar; repair the brick kiln!”
Read Nahum 3:14 in the flow of Nahum3 for its full sense, then follow the cross-references below to the passages that echo it. Open Nahum3 to see the surrounding context.
“Draw your water for the siege; strengthen your fortresses. Work the clay and tread the mortar; repair the brick kiln!”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“Draw thee waters for the siege, fortify thy strong holds: go into clay, and tread the morter, make strong the brickkiln.”
King James Version · Public Domain“Draw thee water for the siege; strengthen thy fortresses; go into the clay, and tread the mortar; make strong the brickkiln.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“Waters of a siege draw for thyself, Strengthen thy fortresses, Enter into mire, and tread on clay, Make strong a brick-kiln.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Nahum 3:14 — 10 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- 2 Chronicles 32:3he consulted with his leaders and commanders about stopping up the waters of the springs outside the city, and they helped him carry it out.
- 2 Chronicles 32:11Is not Hezekiah misleading you to give you over to death by famine and thirst when he says, ‘The LORD our God will deliver us from the hand of the king of Assyria?’
- Isaiah 8:9Huddle together, O peoples, and be shattered; pay attention, all you distant lands; prepare for battle, and be shattered; prepare for battle, and be shattered!
- Isaiah 22:9You saw that there were many breaches in the walls of the City of David. You collected water from the lower pool.
- Isaiah 37:25I have dug wells and drunk foreign waters. With the soles of my feet I have dried up all the streams of Egypt.”
- Jeremiah 46:3“Deploy your shields, small and large; advance for battle!
- Jeremiah 46:9Advance, O horses! Race furiously, O chariots! Let the warriors come forth— Cush and Put carrying their shields, men of Lydia drawing the bow.
- Joel 3:9Proclaim this among the nations: “Prepare for war; rouse the mighty men; let all the men of war advance and attack!
- Nahum 2:1One who scatters advances against you, O Nineveh. Guard the fortress! Watch the road! Brace yourselves! Summon all your strength!
- Nahum 2:2For the LORD will restore the splendor of Jacob like the splendor of Israel, though destroyers have laid them waste and ruined the branches of their vine.
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