Verse List for NAH 3:14

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B I ◄ ← Nah 3:14 ↓ → ═ ©

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OET (OET-RV) Get water from the wells to store for the siege. ⇔ Strengthen your fortifications. ⇔ Fetch clay and start working it. ⇔  Get the molds ready to make bricks.

OET-LV Water _of siege draw to/for_you(fs) strengthen fortifications _of_your go in_clay and_trample on_mortar take _hold _of a _brick-mould.

ULT Draw siege water for yourself; strengthen your fortresses; ⇔ go into the clay and tread in the mortar; ⇔ pick up the brick mold.

UST People of Nineveh, store up water now to use when your enemies surround the city! ⇔  Make your defensive buildings stronger! ⇔  Dig up clay and trample it to make it soft; ⇔  put it into molds to make bricks to strengthen the walls!

BSB & MSB Draw your water for the siege; ⇔  strengthen your fortresses. ⇔ Work the clay and tread the mortar; ⇔  repair the brick [kiln]!

OEB ⇔  ‘Draw water for the siege, ⇔  strengthen your forts. ⇔ Go to the clay pits and tread the clay; ⇔  take up the brick moulds.

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

NET Draw yourselves water for a siege! ⇔ Strengthen your fortifications! ⇔ Trample the mud and tread the clay! ⇔ Make mud bricks to strengthen your walls!

LSV Waters of a siege draw for yourself,
Strengthen your fortresses,
Enter into mire, and tread on clay,
Make strong a brick-kiln.

FBV Store water to prepare for a siege! Strengthen your fortresses! Go to the clay pits to tread it well, mix the cement, get your brick molds ready!

T4T ⇔  Store up water now to use when your enemies surround the city! ⇔  Repair the forts! ⇔ Dig up clay and trample it to make it soft, ⇔  and put it into molds to make bricks to repair the walls!

LEB • Draw water for a siege!
  • Strengthen your fortifications!
• Go to the mud pit!
  • Trample the clay!
   • Grasp the brick mold!

BBE Get water for the time when you are shut in, make strong your towns: go into the potter's earth, stamping it down with your feet, make strong the brickworks.

Moff Draw water for your siege, ⇔ strengthen your defences: ⇔ down with you to the mud, ⇔  trample the clay, ⇔ all hands to the brick-mould!

JPS Draw thee water for the siege, strengthen thy fortresses; go into the clay, and tread the mortar, lay hold of the brickmould.

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

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

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

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

RV Draw thee water for the siege, strengthen thy fortresses: go into the clay, and tread the mortar, make strong the brickkiln.
(Draw thee/you water for the siege, strengthen thy/your fortresses: go into the clay, and tread the mortar, make strong the brick-kiln.)

SLT Draw the water of the siege to thee, strengthen thy fortresses go into clay, tread upon the clay, hold fast from the brick.

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

KJB-1769 Draw thee waters for the siege, fortify thy strong holds: go into clay, and tread the morter, make strong the brickkiln.
(Draw thee/you waters for the siege, fortify thy/your strongholds: go into clay, and tread the mortar, make strong the brick-kiln.)

KJB-1611 Draw thee waters for the siege: fortifie thy strong holdes, goe into clay, and tread the morter: make strong the bricke-kill.
(Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above, apart from punctuation)

Bshps Drawe thee water for the siege, strengthen thy fortes, go into the clay, treade the morter, make strong the brickyll.
(Draw thee/you water for the siege, strengthen thy/your forts, go into the clay, tread the mortar, make strong the brick-kiln.)

Gnva Drawe thee waters for the siege: fortifie thy strong holdes: go into the clay, and temper the morter: make strong bricke.
(Draw thee/you waters for the siege: fortify thy/your strongholds: go into the clay, and temper the mortar: make strong brick.)

Cvdl Drawe water now agaynst thou be beseged, make vp thy stroge holdes, go into the claye, tempre the morter, make stronge bricke:
(Draw water now against thou/you be besieged, make up thy/your strongholds, go into the clay, temper the mortar, make strong brick:)

Wycl Drawe vp to thee water for asegyng, bilde thi strengthis; entre in fen, and trede, thou vndurgoynge holde a tiel stoon.
(Draw up to thee/you water for aseging, build thy/your strengths; enter in fen, and trede, thou/you undergoing hold a tile stone.)

Luth Schöpfe dir Wasser, denn du wirst belagert werden; bessere deine Festen; gehe in den Ton und tritt den Leimen und mache starke Ziegel.
(Schöpfe you/to_you(sg) water, because/than you(sg) will besieged become; better your festivals; go in the Ton and tread/step(v) the Leimen and make strength brick/tile(n).)

ClVg Aquam propter obsidionem hauri tibi: exstrue munitiones tuas, intra in lutum, et calca, subigens tene laterem.
(Aquam because siege hauri to_you: exstrue fortifications yours, inside in/into/on clay, and calca, subigens tene on_the_sidem.)

UHB מֵ֤י מָצוֹר֙ שַֽׁאֲבִי־לָ֔⁠ךְ חַזְּקִ֖י מִבְצָרָ֑יִ⁠ךְ בֹּ֧אִי בַ⁠טִּ֛יט וְ⁠רִמְסִ֥י בַ⁠חֹ֖מֶר הַחֲזִ֥יקִי מַלְבֵּֽן׃ ‡

BrLXX Ὕδωρ περιοχῆς ἐπίσπασαι σεαυτῇ, καὶ κατακράτησον τῶν ὀχυρωμάτων σου· ἔμβηθι εἰς πηλὸν, καὶ συμπατήθητι ἐν ἀχύροις, κατακράτησον ὑπὲρ πλίνθον.

BrTr Draw thee water for a siege, and well secure thy strong-holds: enter into the clay, and be thou trodden in the chaff, make the fortifications stronger than brick.