Category: Nahum

  • Nahum 2:12

    American Standard Version (ASV):
    The lion did tear in pieces enough for his whelps, and strangled for his lionesses, and filled his caves with prey, and his dens with ravin.

    King James Version (KJV):
    The lion did tear in pieces enough for his whelps, and strangled for his lionesses, and filled his holes with prey, and his dens with ravin.

  • Nahum 2:11

    American Standard Version (ASV):
    Where is the den of the lions, and the feeding-place of the young lions, where the lion [and] the lioness walked, the lion’s whelp, and none made them afraid?

    King James Version (KJV):
    Where [is] the dwelling of the lions, and the feedingplace of the young lions, where the lion, [even] the old lion, walked, [and] the lion’s whelp, and none made [them] afraid?

  • Nahum 2:10

    American Standard Version (ASV):
    She is empty, and void, and waste; and the heart melteth, and the knees smite together, and anguish is in all loins, and the faces of them all are waxed pale.

    King James Version (KJV):
    She is empty, and void, and waste: and the heart melteth, and the knees smite together, and much pain [is] in all loins, and the faces of them all gather blackness.

  • Nahum 2:9

    American Standard Version (ASV):
    Take ye the spoil of silver, take the spoil of gold; for there is no end of the store, the glory of all goodly furniture.

    King James Version (KJV):
    Take ye the spoil of silver, take the spoil of gold: for [there is] none end of the store [and] glory out of all the pleasant furniture.

  • Nahum 2:8

    American Standard Version (ASV):
    But Nineveh hath been from of old like a pool of water: yet they flee away. Stand, stand, [they cry] ; but none looketh back.

    King James Version (KJV):
    But Nineveh [is] of old like a pool of water: yet they shall flee away. Stand, stand, [shall they cry]; but none shall look back.

  • Nahum 2:7

    American Standard Version (ASV):
    And it is decreed: she is uncovered, she is carried away; and her handmaids moan as with the voice of doves, beating upon their breasts.

    King James Version (KJV):
    And Huzzab shall be led away captive, she shall be brought up, and her maids shall lead [her] as with the voice of doves, tabering upon their breasts.

  • Nahum 2:6

    American Standard Version (ASV):
    The gates of the rivers are opened, and the palace is dissolved.

    King James Version (KJV):
    The gates of the rivers shall be opened, and the palace shall be dissolved.

  • Nahum 2:5

    American Standard Version (ASV):
    He remembereth his nobles: they stumble in their march; they make haste to the wall thereof, and the mantelet is prepared.

    King James Version (KJV):
    He shall recount his worthies: they shall stumble in their walk; they shall make haste to the wall thereof, and the defence shall be prepared.

  • Nahum 2:4

    American Standard Version (ASV):
    The chariots rage in the streets; they rush to and fro in the broad ways: the appearance of them is like torches; they run like the lightnings.

    King James Version (KJV):
    The chariots shall rage in the streets, they shall justle one against another in the broad ways: they shall seem like torches, they shall run like the lightnings.

  • Nahum 2:3

    American Standard Version (ASV):
    The shield of his mighty men is made red, the valiant men are in scarlet: the chariots flash with steel in the day of his preparation, and the cypress [spears] are brandished.

    King James Version (KJV):
    The shield of his mighty men is made red, the valiant men [are] in scarlet: the chariots [shall be] with flaming torches in the day of his preparation, and the fir trees shall be terribly shaken.