Category: Nahum

  • Nahum 3:19

    American Standard Version (ASV):
    There is no assuaging of thy hurt: thy wound is grievous: all that hear the report of thee clap their hands over thee; for upon whom hath not thy wickedness passed continually?

    King James Version (KJV):
    [There is] no healing of thy bruise; thy wound is grievous: all that hear the bruit of thee shall clap the hands over thee: for upon whom hath not thy wickedness passed continually?

  • Nahum 3:18

    American Standard Version (ASV):
    Thy shepherds slumber, O king of Assyria; thy nobles are at rest; thy people are scattered upon the mountains, and there is none to gather them.

    King James Version (KJV):
    Thy shepherds slumber, O king of Assyria: thy nobles shall dwell [in the dust]: thy people is scattered upon the mountains, and no man gathereth [them].

  • Nahum 3:17

    American Standard Version (ASV):
    Thy princes are as the locusts, and thy marshals as the swarms of grasshoppers, which encamp in the hedges in the cold day, but when the sun ariseth they flee away, and their place is not known where they are.

    King James Version (KJV):
    Thy crowned [are] as the locusts, and thy captains as the great grasshoppers, which camp in the hedges in the cold day, [but] when the sun ariseth they flee away, and their place is not known where they [are].

  • Nahum 3:16

    American Standard Version (ASV):
    Thou hast multiplied thy merchants above the stars of heaven: the canker-worm ravageth, and fleeth away.

    King James Version (KJV):
    Thou hast multiplied thy merchants above the stars of heaven: the cankerworm spoileth, and flieth away.

  • Nahum 3:15

    American Standard Version (ASV):
    There shall the fire devour thee; the sword shall cut thee off; it shall devour thee like the canker-worm: make thyself many as the canker-worm; make thyself many as the locust.

    King James Version (KJV):
    There shall the fire devour thee; the sword shall cut thee off, it shall eat thee up like the cankerworm: make thyself many as the cankerworm, make thyself many as the locusts.

  • Nahum 3:14

    American Standard Version (ASV):
    Draw thee water for the siege; strengthen thy fortresses; go into the clay, and tread the mortar; make strong the brickkiln.

    King James Version (KJV):
    Draw thee waters for the siege, fortify thy strong holds: go into clay, and tread the morter, make strong the brickkiln.

  • Nahum 3:13

    American Standard Version (ASV):
    Behold, thy people in the midst of thee are women; the gates of thy land are set wide open unto thine enemies: the fire hath devoured thy bars.

    King James Version (KJV):
    Behold, thy people in the midst of thee [are] women: the gates of thy land shall be set wide open unto thine enemies: the fire shall devour thy bars.

  • Nahum 3:12

    American Standard Version (ASV):
    All thy fortresses shall be [like] fig-trees with the first-ripe figs: if they be shaken, they fall into the mouth of the eater.

    King James Version (KJV):
    All thy strong holds [shall be like] fig trees with the firstripe figs: if they be shaken, they shall even fall into the mouth of the eater.

  • Nahum 3:11

    American Standard Version (ASV):
    Thou also shalt be drunken; thou shalt be hid; thou also shalt seek a stronghold because of the enemy.

    King James Version (KJV):
    Thou also shalt be drunken: thou shalt be hid, thou also shalt seek strength because of the enemy.

  • Nahum 3:10

    American Standard Version (ASV):
    Yet was she carried away, she went into captivity; her young children also were dashed in pieces at the head of all the streets; and they cast lots for her honorable men, and all her great men were bound in chains.

    King James Version (KJV):
    Yet [was] she carried away, she went into captivity: her young children also were dashed in pieces at the top of all the streets: and they cast lots for her honourable men, and all her great men were bound in chains.