Verse List for NAH 2:1

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B I ◄ ↨ Nah 2:1 ↓ → ► ═ ©

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OET (OET-RV) The ones who’ll scatter you are getting ready to attack you. ⇔  Guard the city walls. ⇔  Watch the roads. ⇔  Be dressed for battle. ⇔  Gather your troops together.

OET-LV [fn] THERE on the_mountains the_feet _of one _who_bears _news one _who_proclaims peace celebrate _a _festival Oh _Yəhūdāh/(Judah) festivals _of_your pay vows _of_your if/because not he _will _repeat again to_pass[fn] on/over_you(fs) a _worthless _person of _him _of_all it _will _be _cut _off.

ULT A scatterer has come up against your face. ⇔ Guard the city walls, watch the road, ⇔ strengthen, your loins, greatly fortify, your power!

UST You people of Nineveh, your enemies are coming to attack you. So place guards on the tops of the walls around the city! Guard the roads into the city! Get ready to fight! Gather all of your troops together!

BSB & MSB One who scatters advances ⇔  against you, [O Nineveh]. ⇔ Guard the fortress! ⇔  Watch the road! ⇔ Brace yourselves![fn] ⇔  Summon all your strength!

OEB Nineveh! The destroyer has come up against you; ⇔  mount guard upon the rampart; ⇔  watch the road; brace yourselves; ⇔  strengthen your might to the utmost.

CSB One who scatters is coming up against you. Man the fortifications! Watch the road! Brace yourself! Summon all your strength!

NLT Your enemy is coming to crush you, Nineveh. Man the ramparts! Watch the roads! Prepare your defenses! Call out your forces!

NIV An attacker advances against you, Nineveh. Guard the fortress, watch the road, brace yourselves, marshal all your strength!

CEV Nineveh, someone is coming to attack and scatter you. Guard your fortresses! Watch the road! Be brave! Prepare for battle!

ESV The scatterer has come up against you. Man the ramparts; watch the road; dress for battle; collect all your strength.

NASB The one who scatters has come up against you. Man the fortress, watch the road; Strengthen your back, summon all your strength.

LSB The one who scatters has come up against you. Guard the fortification, watch the road; Strengthen your loins, instill your power with exceeding courage.

WEBBE & WMBB He who dashes in pieces has come up against you. Keep the fortress! Watch the way! Strengthen your waist! Fortify your power mightily!

MSG Israel’s Been to Hell and Back The juggernaut’s coming! Post guards, lay in supplies. Get yourselves together, get ready for the big battle. * * *

NET The watchmen of Nineveh shout: ⇔ “An enemy who will scatter you is marching out to attack you!” ⇔ “Guard the rampart! ⇔ Watch the road! ⇔ Prepare yourselves for battle! ⇔ Muster your mighty strength!”

LSV A scatterer has come up to your face,
Keep the bulwark, watch the way,
Strengthen the loins, strengthen power mightily.

FBV The one who scatters[fn] has come to attack you! Guard the fortresses! Watch the roads! Get yourselves ready! Call every soldier out!

T4T You people of [APO] Nineveh, ⇔  your enemies are coming to attack you. ⇔  So place guards on the tops of the walls around the city! ⇔  Guard the roads into the city! ⇔  Get ready to fight! ⇔  Gather your troops/soldiers [MTY] together!

LEB
• One who shatters[fn] has come up against you!
  • Guard the fortification!
   • Watch the road![fn]
  • Gird your loins!
   • Muster[fn] all your strength!

NRSV A shatterer has come up against you. Guard the ramparts; watch the road; gird your loins; collect all your strength.

NKJV He who scatters has come up before your face. Man the fort! Watch the road! Strengthen your flanks! Fortify your power mightily.

NAB One who scatters has come up against you; guard the rampart, Watch the road, brace yourselves, marshal all your strength!

BBE A crusher has come up before your face: keep a good look-out, let the way be watched, make yourself strong, let your power be greatly increased.

Moff A shatterer has come up ey against you! ⇔ Man your ramparts, ⇔ stand to attention, ⇔ summon up your strength!

JPS (2-2) A maul is come up before thy face; guard the defences, watch the way, make thy loins strong, fortify thy power mightily! —

ASV He that dasheth in pieces is come up against thee: keep the fortress, watch the way, make thy loins strong, fortify thy power mightily.

DRA He is come up that shall destroy before thy face, that shall keep the siege: watch the way, fortify thy loins, strengthen thy power exceedingly.

YLT Come up hath a scatterer to thy face, Keep the bulwark, watch the way, Strengthen the loins, strengthen power mightily.

Drby He that dasheth in pieces is come up against thy face: keep the fortress, watch the way, make [thy] loins strong, fortify [thy] power mightily.

RV He that dasheth in pieces is come up before thy face: keep the munition, watch the way, make thy loins strong, fortify thy power mightily.
(He that dasheth in pieces is come up before thy/your face: keep the munition, watch the way, make thy/your loins strong, fortify thy/your power mightily.)

SLT The hammer came up upon thy face: press upon the fortress, look about the way, strengthen the loins, make the power strong greatly.

Wbstr He that dasheth in pieces is come up before thy face: keep the munition, watch the way, make thy loins strong, fortify thy power mightily.

KJB-1769 He that dasheth in pieces is come up before thy face: keep the munition, watch the way, make thy loins strong, fortify thy power mightily.[fn]
(He that dasheth in pieces is come up before thy/your face: keep the munition, watch the way, make thy/your loins strong, fortify thy/your power mightily.)

KJB-1611 ¶ [fn]He that dasheth in pieces is come up before thy face: keep the munition, watch the way: make thy loines strong: fortifie thy power mightily.
(Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above, apart from punctuation and footnotes)

Bshps The destroyer is come vp before thy face, kepe thy forte, see to the way, strenghten thy loynes, increase thy strength mightyly:
(The destroyer is come up before thy/your face, keep thy/your forte, see to the way, strengthen thy/your loins, increase thy/your strength mightyly:)

Gnva The destroyer is come before thy face: keepe the munition: looke to the way: make thy loynes strong: increase thy strength mightily.
(The destroyer is come before thy/your face: keep the munition: look to the way: make thy/your loins strong: increase thy/your strength mightily.)

Cvdl The scaterer shal come vp agaynst the, & laye sege to the castell. Loke thou wel to the stretes, make thy loynes stronge, arme thy self with all thy myght:
(The scaterer shall come up against them, and lay siege to the castle. Look thou/you well to the streets, make thy/your loins strong, arm thy/your self with all thy/your might:)

Wycl He stiede up, that schal scatere bifore thee, that schal kepe bisechyng; biholde thou the weie, coumforte leendis, strengthe thou vertu greetli.
(He stayed up, that shall scatter before thee/you, that shall keep beseeching/imploring; behold thou/you the way, comfort loins, strength thou/you virtue greatly.)

Luth Siehe, auf den Bergen kommen Füße eines guten Boten, der da Frieden predigt: Halte deine Feiertage, Juda, und bezahle deine Gelübde! Denn es wird der Schalk nicht mehr über dich kommen; er ist gar ausgerottet.
(See/Look, on/in/to the mountain(s)/hill(s) coming feet one/a good messenger, the/of_the there peace preaching(v): Hold/Stop your holidays, Yuda, and pay your vow/pledge! Because it becomes the/of_the Schalk not more above you/yourself coming; he is even eradicated.)

ClVg [Ascendit qui dispergat coram te, qui custodiat obsidionem: contemplare viam, conforta lumbos, robora virtutem valde.
([Ascendit who/which dispergat before you(sg), who/which keep/guard siege: to_contemplate way/road, conforta waist, robora virtue very_much.)

UHB 2 עָלָ֥ה מֵפִ֛יץ עַל־פָּנַ֖יִ⁠ךְ נָצ֣וֹר מְצֻרָ֑ה צַפֵּה־דֶ֨רֶךְ֙ חַזֵּ֣ק מָתְנַ֔יִם אַמֵּ֥ץ כֹּ֖חַ מְאֹֽד׃ ‡

BrLXX Ἰδοὺ ἐπὶ τὰ ὄρη οἱ πόδες εὐαγγελιζομένου, καὶ ἀπαγγέλλοντος εἰρήνην· ἑόρταζε Ἰούδα τὰς ἑορτάς σου, ἀπόδος τὰς εὐχάς σου, διότι οὐ μὴ προσθήσωσιν ἔτι τοῦ διελθεῖν διὰ σοῦ εἰς παλαίωσιν.

BrTr Behold upon the mountains the feet of him that brings glad tidings, and publishes peace! O Juda, keep thy feasts, pay thy vows: for they shall no more pass through thee to thy decay.