Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version An attacker advances against you, Nineveh. Guard the fortress, watch the road, brace yourselves, marshal all your strength! New Living Translation Your enemy is coming to crush you, Nineveh. Man the ramparts! Watch the roads! Prepare your defenses! Call out your forces! English Standard Version The scatterer has come up against you. Man the ramparts; watch the road; dress for battle; collect all your strength. Berean Standard Bible One who scatters advances against you, O Nineveh. Guard the fortress! Watch the road! Brace yourselves! Summon all your strength! King James Bible He that dasheth in pieces is come up before thy face: keep the munition, watch the way, make thy loins strong, fortify thy power mightily. New King James Version He who scatters has come up before your face. Man the fort! Watch the road! Strengthen your flanks! Fortify your power mightily. New American Standard Bible The one who scatters has come up against you. Keep watch over the fortress, watch the road; Bind up your waist, summon all your strength. NASB 1995 The one who scatters has come up against you. Man the fortress, watch the road; Strengthen your back, summon all your strength. NASB 1977 The one who scatters has come up against you. Man the fortress, watch the road; Strengthen your back, summon all your strength. Legacy Standard Bible The one who scatters has come up against you. Guard the fortification, watch the road; Strengthen your loins, instill your power with exceeding courage. Amplified Bible The one who scatters has come up against you [Nineveh]. Man the fortress and ramparts, watch the road; Strengthen your back [prepare for battle], summon all your strength. Christian Standard Bible One who scatters is coming up against you. Man the fortifications! Watch the road! Brace yourself! Summon all your strength! Holman Christian Standard Bible One who scatters is coming up against you. Man the fortifications! Watch the road! Brace yourself! Summon all your strength! American Standard Version He that dasheth in pieces is come up against thee: keep the fortress, watch the way, make thy loins strong, fortify thy power mightily. Contemporary English Version Nineveh, someone is coming to attack and scatter you. Guard your fortresses! Watch the road! Be brave! Prepare for battle! English Revised Version He that dasheth in pieces is come up before thy face: keep the munition, watch the way, make thy loins strong, fortify thy power mightily. GOD'S WORD® Translation The one who will scatter you is coming to attack you. Guard your fortress! Keep a lookout on the road! Prepare for battle! Be very courageous! Good News Translation Nineveh, you are under attack! The power that will shatter you has come. Prepare the defenses! Guard the road! Prepare for battle! ( International Standard Version You are being attacked by advancing forces! Guard your rampart! Watch your roads! Prepare yourselves! Marshall your defenses! Majority Standard Bible One who scatters advances against you, O Nineveh. Guard the fortress! Watch the road! Brace yourselves! Summon all your strength! NET Bible The watchmen of Nineveh shout: "An enemy who will scatter you is marching out to attack you!" "Guard the rampart! Watch the road! Prepare yourselves for battle! Muster your mighty strength!" New Heart English Bible He who dashes in pieces has come up against you. Keep the fortress. Watch the way. Strengthen your waist. Fortify your power mightily. Webster's Bible Translation He that dasheth in pieces is come up before thy face: keep the munition, watch the way, make thy loins strong, fortify thy power mightily. World English Bible He who dashes in pieces has come up against you. Keep the fortress! Watch the way! Strengthen your waist! Fortify your power mightily! Literal Translations Literal Standard VersionA scatterer has come up to your face, "" Keep the bulwark, watch the way, "" Strengthen the loins, strengthen power mightily. Young's Literal Translation Come up hath a scatterer to thy face, Keep the bulwark, watch the way, Strengthen the loins, strengthen power mightily. Smith's Literal Translation The hammer came up upon thy face: press upon the fortress, look about the way, strengthen the loins, make the power strong greatly. Catholic Translations Douay-Rheims BibleHe is come up that shall destroy before thy face, that shall keep the siege: watch the way, fortify thy loins, strengthen thy power exceedingly. Catholic Public Domain Version He ascends, who would scatter before your eyes, who would maintain the blockade. Contemplate the way, fortify your back, reinforce virtue greatly. New American Bible One who scatters has come up against you; guard the rampart, Watch the road, brace yourselves, marshal all your strength! New Revised Standard Version A shatterer has come up against you. Guard the ramparts; watch the road; gird your loins; collect all your strength. Translations from Aramaic Lamsa BibleA RULER has come up against you who keeps a watch, guards the road, and girds loins; whose strength is exceedingly great. Peshitta Holy Bible Translated The Ruler went up before you and he keeps guard, and he watches the road, and he fastens the loins and his power is very mighty OT Translations JPS Tanakh 1917A maul is come up before thy face; Guard the defences, Watch the way, make thy loins strong, Fortify thy power mightily!-- Brenton Septuagint Translation It is all over with him, he has been removed, one who has been delivered from affliction has come up panting into thy presence, watch the way, strengthen thy loins, be very valiant in thy strength. Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context The Overthrow of Nineveh1One who scatters advances against you, O Nineveh. Guard the fortress! Watch the road! Brace yourselves! Summon all your strength! 2For the LORD will restore the splendor of Jacob like the splendor of Israel, though destroyers have laid them waste and ruined the branches of their vine.… Cross References Isaiah 52:1 Awake, awake, clothe yourself with strength, O Zion! Put on your garments of splendor, O Jerusalem, holy city! For the uncircumcised and unclean will no longer enter you. Isaiah 52:7 How beautiful on the mountains are the feet of those who bring good news, who proclaim peace, who bring good tidings, who proclaim salvation, who say to Zion, “Your God reigns!” Jeremiah 50:2 “Announce and declare to the nations; lift up a banner and proclaim it; hold nothing back when you say, ‘Babylon is captured; Bel is put to shame; Marduk is shattered, her images are disgraced, her idols are broken in pieces.’ Jeremiah 51:27 “Raise a banner in the land! Blow the ram’s horn among the nations! Prepare the nations against her. Summon the kingdoms against her—Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz. Appoint a captain against her; bring up horses like swarming locusts. Ezekiel 7:14 They have blown the trumpet and made everything ready, but no one goes to war, for My wrath is upon the whole multitude. Ezekiel 33:3 and he sees the sword coming against that land and blows the ram’s horn to warn the people. Joel 3:9 Proclaim this among the nations: “Prepare for war; rouse the mighty men; let all the men of war advance and attack! Amos 3:6 If a ram’s horn sounds in a city, do the people not tremble? If calamity comes to a city, has not the LORD caused it? Zephaniah 2:13 And He will stretch out His hand against the north and destroy Assyria; He will make Nineveh a desolation, as dry as a desert. Zechariah 9:14 Then the LORD will appear over them, and His arrow will go forth like lightning. The Lord GOD will sound the ram’s horn and advance in the whirlwinds of the south. Matthew 24:42 Therefore keep watch, because you do not know the day on which your Lord will come. Mark 13:33 Be on your guard and stay alert! For you do not know when the appointed time will come. Luke 12:35-40 Be dressed for service and keep your lamps burning. / Then you will be like servants waiting for their master to return from the wedding banquet, so that when he comes and knocks, they can open the door for him at once. / Blessed are those servants whom the master finds on watch when he returns. Truly I tell you, he will dress himself to serve and will have them recline at the table, and he himself will come and wait on them. ... Luke 21:36 So keep watch at all times, and pray that you may have the strength to escape all that is about to happen and to stand before the Son of Man.” Romans 13:11 And do this, understanding the occasion. The hour has come for you to wake up from your slumber, for our salvation is nearer now than when we first believed. Treasury of Scripture He that dashes in pieces is come up before your face: keep the fortification, watch the way, make your loins strong, fortify your power mightily. He that dasheth in pieces. Isaiah 14:6 He who smote the people in wrath with a continual stroke, he that ruled the nations in anger, is persecuted, and none hindereth. Jeremiah 25:9 Behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, saith the LORD, and Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will bring them against this land, and against the inhabitants thereof, and against all these nations round about, and will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, and an hissing, and perpetual desolations. Jeremiah 50:23 How is the hammer of the whole earth cut asunder and broken! how is Babylon become a desolation among the nations! keep. Nahum 3:14,15 Draw thee waters for the siege, fortify thy strong holds: go into clay, and tread the morter, make strong the brickkiln… 2 Chronicles 25:8 But if thou wilt go, do it, be strong for the battle: God shall make thee fall before the enemy: for God hath power to help, and to cast down. Jeremiah 46:3-10 Order ye the buckler and shield, and draw near to battle… Jump to Previous Advances Attacker Brace Bulwark Collect Crusher Dashes Dasheth Defences Face Fortify Fortress Gird Good Greatly Guard Increased Loins Maul Mightily Munition Nineveh Pieces Power Ramparts Road Scatters Strength Strengthen Strong Summon Waist Watch Watched WayJump to Next Advances Attacker Brace Bulwark Collect Crusher Dashes Dasheth Defences Face Fortify Fortress Gird Good Greatly Guard Increased Loins Maul Mightily Munition Nineveh Pieces Power Ramparts Road Scatters Strength Strengthen Strong Summon Waist Watch Watched WayNahum 2 1. The fearful and victorious armies of God against Nineveh.One who scatters This phrase refers to the impending invader, often understood as the Babylonian forces that would come against Nineveh. The Hebrew root for "scatter" is "פּוּץ" (puts), which conveys the idea of dispersing or breaking apart. Historically, this reflects the Assyrian Empire's own tactics of scattering conquered peoples, now turned against them as divine retribution. Theologically, it underscores the principle of divine justice, where the methods of oppression used by the wicked are turned back upon them. advances against you man the ramparts! Watch the road brace yourselves summon all your strength Parallel Commentaries ... Hebrew One who scattersמֵפִ֛יץ (mê·p̄îṣ) Verb - Hifil - Participle - masculine singular Strong's 6327: To be dispersed or scattered advances עָלָ֥ה (‘ā·lāh) Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular Strong's 5927: To ascend, in, actively against עַל־ (‘al-) Preposition Strong's 5921: Above, over, upon, against you, [O Nineveh]. פָּנַ֖יִךְ (pā·na·yiḵ) Noun - masculine plural construct | second person feminine singular Strong's 6440: The face Guard נָצ֣וֹר (nā·ṣō·wr) Verb - Qal - Infinitive absolute Strong's 5341: To watch, guard, keep the fortress! מְצֻרָ֑ה (mə·ṣu·rāh) Noun - feminine singular Strong's 4694: A hemming in, a mound, a rampart, fortification Watch צַפֵּה־ (ṣap·pêh-) Verb - Piel - Imperative - masculine singular Strong's 6822: To lean forward, to peer into the distance, to observe, await the road! דֶ֙רֶךְ֙ (ḏe·reḵ) Noun - common singular Strong's 1870: A road, a course of life, mode of action Brace yourself חַזֵּ֣ק (ḥaz·zêq) Verb - Piel - Imperative - masculine singular Strong's 2388: To fasten upon, to seize, be strong, obstinate, to bind, restrain, conquer ! מָתְנַ֔יִם (mā·ṯə·na·yim) Noun - md Strong's 4975: The waist, small of the back, the loins Summon אַמֵּ֥ץ (’am·mêṣ) Verb - Piel - Imperative - masculine singular Strong's 553: To be stout, strong, bold, alert all מְאֹֽד׃ (mə·’ōḏ) Adverb Strong's 3966: Vehemence, vehemently, wholly, speedily your strength! כֹּ֖חַ (kō·aḥ) Noun - masculine singular Strong's 3581: A small reptile (of unknown species) Links Nahum 2:1 NIVNahum 2:1 NLT Nahum 2:1 ESV Nahum 2:1 NASB Nahum 2:1 KJV Nahum 2:1 BibleApps.com Nahum 2:1 Biblia Paralela Nahum 2:1 Chinese Bible Nahum 2:1 French Bible Nahum 2:1 Catholic Bible OT Prophets: Nahum 2:1 He who dashes in pieces has come (Nah. 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