Nahum 3:14
Nahum 3:14 Amplified Bible (AMP)
Draw water for a [long, continued] siege! Strengthen your fortresses! Go down to the clay pits, trample the mortar! Prepare the brick kiln [to burn bricks for the rampart]!
Nahum 3:14-15 The Message (MSG)
Store up water for the siege. Shore up your defenses. Get down to basics: Work the clay and make bricks. Sorry. Too late. Enemy fire will burn you up. Swords will cut you to pieces. You’ll be chewed up as if by locusts. * * *
Nahum 3:14 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 3:14 New American Standard Bible - NASB 1995 (NASB1995)
Draw for yourself water for the siege! Strengthen your fortifications! Go into the clay and tread the mortar! Take hold of the brick mold!
Nahum 3:14 New Century Version (NCV)
Get enough water before the long war begins. Make your defenses strong! Get mud, mix clay, make bricks!
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.
Nahum 3:14 New International Version (NIV)
Draw water for the siege, strengthen your defenses! Work the clay, tread the mortar, repair the brickwork!
Nahum 3:14 New King James Version (NKJV)
Draw your water for the siege! Fortify your strongholds! Go into the clay and tread the mortar! Make strong the brick kiln!
Nahum 3:14 Amplified Bible (AMP)
Draw water for a [long, continued] siege! Strengthen your fortresses! Go down to the clay pits, trample the mortar! Prepare the brick kiln [to burn bricks for the rampart]!
Nahum 3:14 New Living Translation (NLT)
Get ready for the siege! Store up water! Strengthen the defenses! Go into the pits to trample clay, and pack it into molds, making bricks to repair the walls.