Nahum 2:1 Cross References - JuliaSmith

¹ The hammer came up upon thy face: press upon the fortress, look about the way, strengthen the loins, make the power strong greatly.

⁸ For if thou goest, to be strong for war: God will cause thee to falter before the enemy, for there is power with God to help and to cause to falter.

⁶ Striking the peoples in wrath a blow not removed, bringing down the nations in anger; pursuing, not sparing.

⁹ Behold me sending, and I took all the families of the north, says Jehovah, to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babel, my servant, and I brought them against this land and against its inhabitants, and against all these nations round about, and I devoted them to destruction, and I set them for a desolation and for a hissing, and for perpetual wastes.

³ Prepare the covering and the shield, and approach to the war. ⁴ Harness the horses, and come up, ye horsemen, and stand in the helmets; polish the spears, and put on the coats of mail. ⁵ Wherefore did I see them terrified, drawing back behind? and their strong ones shall be broken, and they fled a flight, and they turned not: fear being round about, says Jehovah. ⁶ The swift shall not flee away, and the strong shall not escape: to the north upon the hand of the river Phrath they stumbled and fell ⁷ Who this as a river he shall come up, as the rivers his waters shall be moved? ⁸ Egypt as a river will come up, and as rivers the waters will be moved; and he will say, I will go up, I will cover the earth; I will destroy the city and those dwelling in it ⁹ Come up, ye horses; and rage, ye chariots; and the strong ones shall come forth: Cush and Phut seizing the shield; and the Ludims, bending the bow. ¹⁰ And that the day to the Lord Jehovah of armies, a day of vengeance to be avenged of his adversaries: and the sword consumed and was satiated, and drunk their blood to the full; for a sacrifice to the Lord Jehovah of armies in the land of the north by the river Phrath.

²³ How was the hammer of all the earth cut off, and it will be broken! How was Babel for a desolation among the nations!

¹¹ Polish the arrows; fill the quivers: Jehovah roused up the spirit of the kings of the Males: for his purpose is against Babel, to destroy her; for it is the vengeance of Jehovah, the vengeance of his temple. ¹² Lift ye up a signal against the walls of Babel, strengthen the watch, set up the watchers, prepare the ambushes: for Jehovah also purposed and also did what he spake to the inhabitants of Babel.

²⁰ Thou a mallet to me, a weapon of war: and I broke the nations in pieces with thee, and I destroyed kingdoms with thee; ²¹ And I broke in pieces with thee the horse and his rider; and I broke in pieces with thee the chariot and its charioteer; ²² And I broke in pieces with thee man and woman; and I broke in pieces with thee the old man and the boy; and I broke in pieces with thee the young man and the virgin; ²³ And I broke in pieces with thee the shepherd and his flock; and I broke in pieces with thee the husbandman and his yoke; and I broke in pieces with thee the prefects and the rulers.

⁹ Call ye this among the nations: Consecrate war; rouse up the strong ones, they shall draw near, all the men of war shall come up. ¹⁰ Beat your plough-shares into swords, and your pruning-knives into spears: the weak shall say, I am strong. ¹¹ Hasten and come all ye nations from round about, and be ye gathered together: there lead down, O Jehovah, thy strong ones.

¹⁴ Draw the water of the siege to thee, strengthen thy fortresses go into clay, tread upon the clay, hold fast from the brick. ¹⁵ There shall the fire devour thee; the sword shall cut thee off, it shall devour thee as the feeder: make thee numerous as the feeder, make thee numerous as the locust