Nahum 3:14

NETBible

Draw yourselves water for a siege! 1  Strengthen your fortifications! Trample the mud 2  and tread the clay! Make mud bricks to strengthen your walls! 3 

NIV ©

Draw water for the siege, strengthen your defences! Work the clay, tread the mortar, repair the brickwork!

NASB ©

Draw for yourself water for the siege! Strengthen your fortifications! Go into the clay and tread the mortar! Take hold of the brick mold!

NLT ©

Get ready for the siege! Store up water! Strengthen the defenses! Make bricks to repair the walls! Go into the pits to trample clay, and pack it into molds!

MSG ©

Store up water for the siege. Shore up your defenses. Get down to basics: Work the clay and make bricks.

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.

NRSV ©

Draw water for the siege, strengthen your forts; trample the clay, tread the mortar, take hold of the brick mold!

NKJV ©

Draw your water for the siege! Fortify your strongholds! Go into the clay and tread the mortar! Make strong the brick kiln!

KJV
Draw
<07579> (8798)
thee waters
<04325>
for the siege
<04692>_,
fortify
<02388> (8761)
thy strong holds
<04013>_:
go
<0935> (8798)
into clay
<02916>_,
and tread
<07429> (8798)
the morter
<02563>_,
make strong
<02388> (8685)
the brickkiln
<04404>_.
NASB ©
Draw
<7579>
for yourself water
<4325>
for the siege
<4692>
! Strengthen
<2388>
your fortifications
<4013>
! Go
<935>
into the clay
<2916>
and tread
<7429>
the mortar
<2563>
! Take
<2388>
hold
<2388>
of the brick
<4404>
mold
<4404>
!
LXXM
udwr
<5204> 
N-NSN
periochv
<4042> 
N-GSF
epispasai {V-AAN} seauth
<4572> 
D-DSF
kai
<2532> 
CONJ
katakrathson {V-FAPNS} twn
<3588> 
T-GPN
ocurwmatwn
<3794> 
N-GPN
sou
<4771> 
P-GS
embhyi
<1684> 
V-APD-2S
eiv
<1519> 
PREP
phlon
<4081> 
N-ASM
kai
<2532> 
CONJ
sumpathyhti
<4841> 
V-APD-2S
en
<1722> 
PREP
acuroiv
<892> 
N-DPN
katakrathson {V-FAPAS} uper
<5228> 
PREP
plinyon {N-ASF}
NET [draft] ITL
Draw
<07579>
yourselves water
<04325>
for a siege
<04692>
! Strengthen
<02388>
your fortifications
<04013>
! Trample
<0935>
the mud
<02916>
and tread
<07429>
the clay
<02563>
! Make mud bricks
<04404>
to strengthen
<02388>
your walls!
HEBREW
Nblm
<04404>
yqyzxh
<02388>
rmxb
<02563>
yomrw
<07429>
jyjb
<02916>
yab
<0935>
Kyrubm
<04013>
yqzx
<02388>
Kl
<0>
ybas
<07579>
rwum
<04692>
ym (3:14)
<04325>
NETBible

Draw yourselves water for a siege! 1  Strengthen your fortifications! Trample the mud 2  and tread the clay! Make mud bricks to strengthen your walls! 3 

NET Notes

1 tn Heb “waters of siege.”

2 tn Heb “go into the mud.”

3 tn Heb “Take hold of the mud-brick mold!”