Nahum 3:14
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Draw thee waters for the siege! Fortify thy strongholds! Go into clay and tread the mortar; make strong the brickkiln!
Draw thee water for the siege; strengthen thy fortresses; go into the clay, and tread the mortar; make strong the brickkiln.
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]!
Draw for yourself the water [necessary] for a [long continued] siege, make strong your fortresses! Go down into the clay pits and trample the mortar; make ready the brickkiln [to burn bricks for the bulwarks]!
Draw thee waters for the siege, fortify thy strong holds: go into clay, and tread the morter, make strong the brickkiln.
Draw water for the siege; strengthen your fortresses. Step into the clay and tread the mortar; take hold of the brick-mold!
Draw water for the siege; strengthen your fortresses. Step into the clay and tread the mortar; take hold of the brick-mould!
Draw water for yourself to prepare for siege! Strengthen your fortifications! Tread the clay, trample the mortar, grab the brick mold!
Draw water for the siege! Strengthen your fortifications! Go down in the clay, tread the mortar, Take hold of the mold for bricks!
Your city is under attack. Haul in extra water! Strengthen your defenses! Start making bricks! Stir the mortar!
Draw thee water for the siege, strengthen thy fortresses; go into the clay, and tread the mortar, make strong the brick-kiln.
Draw thee water for the siege, build up thy bulwarks: go into the clay, and tread, work it and make brick.
Get water and store it inside your city, because the enemy soldiers will surround your city. Make your defenses strong! Get clay to make more bricks and mix the mortar. Get the molds for making bricks.
Take as much water as you can for the attack. Make your walls strong. Do repairs to your buildings.
Draw water to prepare yourselves for a siege! Strengthen your fortifications! Trample the mud and tread the clay! Make mud bricks to strengthen your walls!
Draw water for the siege; strengthen your forts; go into the clay; tread the mortar; take hold of the brick mold!
Draw water for the siege; strengthen your forts; go into the clay; tread the mortar; take hold of the brick mould!
·Get enough water before the long war begins [Draw water for the siege]. Make your defenses strong! Get mud, mix clay, ·make bricks [strengthen the brickwork]!
Draw thee waters for the siege: fortify thy strongholds: go into the clay, and temper the mortar: make strong brick.
Store water for the siege! Strengthen your defenses! Step into the claypits and trample the clay! Grab the brick mold!
Draw water to prepare for a siege, and strengthen your fortresses! Trample the clay to make bricks, and get the brick molds ready!
Draw water for the siege; strengthen your fortresses. Step into the clay and tread the mortar; take hold of the brick-mold!
Get enough water before the attack begins. Make your defenses strong! Make the bricks. Mix the mortar. Repair the wall!
“Draw water, because a siege is coming! Strengthen your fortresses! Make the clay good and strong! Mix the mortar! Go get your brick molds!
Draw thee waters for the siege, fortify thy strong holds: go into clay, and tread the mortar, make strong the brickkiln.
Draw thee waters for the siege, fortify thy strong holds: go into clay, and tread the morter, make strong the brickkiln.
Draw thee waters for the siege, fortify thy strong holds: go into clay, and tread the morter, make strong the brickkiln.
Draw for yourself water for the siege! Strengthen your fortifications! Go into the clay and tread the mortar! Take hold of the brick mold!
Draw water for a siege! Strengthen your fortifications! Go to the mud pit! Trample the clay! Grasp the brick mold!
Get ready for the siege! Store up water! Strengthen the forts! Prepare many bricks for repairing your walls! Go into the pits to trample the clay, and pack it in the molds!
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. * * * Yes, as if by locusts—a fitting fate, for you yourselves are a locust plague. You’ve multiplied shops and shopkeepers— more buyers and sellers than stars in the sky! A plague of locusts, cleaning out the neighborhood and then flying off. Your bureaucrats are locusts, your brokers and bankers are locusts. Early on, they’re all at your service, full of smiles and promises, But later when you return with questions or complaints, you’ll find they’ve flown off and are nowhere to be found.
Draw water for the siege! Strengthen your forts! Go into the clay and tread the mortar! Take hold of the brick mold!
Store water for the siege! Strengthen your defenses! Step into the claypits and trample the clay! Grab the brick mold!
Draw water for the siege, strengthen your fortresses; Go down into the mud and tread the clay, take hold of the brick mold!
Draw for yourself water for a siege! Strengthen your fortifications! Go into the clay and tread the mortar! Take hold of the brick mold!
Draw for yourself water for the siege! Strengthen your fortifications! Go into the clay and tread the mortar! Take hold of the brick mold!
Draw yourselves water for the siege! Strengthen your fortifications! Trample the clay, tread the mortar, repair the brickwork!
Get enough water before the long war begins. Make your defenses strong! Get mud, mix clay, make bricks!
Draw yourselves water for a siege! Strengthen your fortifications! Trample the mud and tread the clay! Make mud bricks to strengthen your walls!
Prepare for the attack by storing up water! Make your walls as strong as you can! Make some bricks out of clay! Mix the mud to hold them together! Use them to repair the walls!
Draw water for the siege, strengthen your defenses! Work the clay, tread the mortar, repair the brickwork!
Draw water for the siege, strengthen your defences! Work the clay, tread the mortar, repair the brickwork!
Draw your water for the siege! Fortify your strongholds! Go into the clay and tread the mortar! Make strong the brick kiln!
Store up water to drink when you are shut in by armies! Make your walls stronger! Go into the clay to make more clay blocks for building!
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.
Draw water for the siege, strengthen your forts; trample the clay, tread the mortar, take hold of the brick-mould!
Draw water for the siege, strengthen your forts; trample the clay, tread the mortar, take hold of the brick-mould!
Draw water for the siege, strengthen your forts; trample the clay, tread the mortar, take hold of the brick mold!
Draw water for the siege; strengthen your forts; trample the clay; tread the mortar; take hold of the brick mold!
Draw thee water for the matzor (siege), fortify thy strongholds, go unto clay, and tread the mortar, repair the brickwork.
Draw water for the siege. Fortify your strongholds. Go into the clay and temper the mortar. Make strong bricks.
Draw water for the siege, strengthen your forts; go into the clay, tread the mortar, take hold of the brick mold!
Draw water for the siege, strengthen your forts; go into the clay, tread the mortar, take hold of the brick mold!
Draw water for a siege. Strengthen your fortifications! Go into the mud and tread mortar. Take hold of the brick mold.
Draw up plenty of water to put out the fires, and prepare, for your enemy will begin a siege. Get busy working the clay and mud to make extra bricks; you’ll need them to repair holes punched in your walls.
Draw water for the siege. Strengthen your fortresses. Go into the clay, and tread the mortar. Make the brick kiln strong.
Draw up to thee water for asieging, build thy strongholds; enter in[to] fen, and tread, thou undergoing hold a tilestone. (Draw up for thyselves water for the siege, and build up thy fortresses; enter into the clay, and tread it, and form some bricks.)
Waters of a siege draw for thyself, Strengthen thy fortresses, Enter into mire, and tread on clay, Make strong a brick-kiln.
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