NAH 3:14 Parallel Verse View

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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.

Key: khaki:verbs.
Note: Automatic aligning of the OET-RV to the LV is done by some temporary software, hence the OET-RV alignments are incomplete (and may occasionally be wrong).

BrLXX Ὕδωρ περιοχῆς ἐπίσπασαι σεαυτῇ, καὶ κατακράτησον τῶν ὀχυρωμάτων σου· ἔμβηθι εἰς πηλὸν, καὶ συμπατήθητι ἐν ἀχύροις, κατακράτησον ὑπὲρ πλίνθον.
(Hudōr perioⱪaʸs epispasai seautaʸ, kai katakrataʸson tōn oⱪurōmatōn sou; embaʸthi eis paʸlon, kai sumpataʸthaʸti en aⱪurois, katakrataʸson huper plinthon. )

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.

ULT Go draw water for the siege; strengthen your fortresses;
⇔ go into the clay and tread the mortar;
⇔ pick up the molds for the bricks.

UST 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!

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

WMBB (Same as above)

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 • 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.

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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.

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.
(Drawe thee/you water for the siege, strengthen thy/your fortes, go into the clay, treade 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.
(Drawe 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:
(Drawe water now against thou/you be beseged, 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.
(Drawe up to thee/you water for asegyng, build thy/your strengthis; 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 water, because you will belagert become; bessere your Festen; go in the Ton and tritt the Leimen and make starke Ziegel.)

ClVg Aquam propter obsidionem hauri tibi: exstrue munitiones tuas, intra in lutum, et calca, subigens tene laterem.
(Aquam propter obsidionem hauri to_you: exstrue munitiones tuas, intra in lutum, and calca, subigens tene laterem. )

UTN uW Translation Notes:

Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / irony

(Occurrence 0) Go draw water for the siege … pick up the molds for the bricks

(Some words not found in UHB: water siege draw to/for=you(fs) strengthen fortifications,your go in/on/at/with,clay and,tread in/on/at/with,mortar take_hold brick_mould )

Nahum speaks to the people of Nineveh. He tells them to prepare for battle and to repair the walls, although he knows that the enemy will destroy the city.

(Occurrence 0) strengthen your fortresses

(Some words not found in UHB: water siege draw to/for=you(fs) strengthen fortifications,your go in/on/at/with,clay and,tread in/on/at/with,mortar take_hold brick_mould )

Alternate translation: “repair the fortifications”

(Occurrence 0) go into the clay and tread the mortar; pick up the molds for the bricks

(Some words not found in UHB: water siege draw to/for=you(fs) strengthen fortifications,your go in/on/at/with,clay and,tread in/on/at/with,mortar take_hold brick_mould )

These phrases refer to making mud bricks that they will use to repair the city’s wall.

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