Take the millstones, and grind meal: uncover thy locks, make bare the leg, uncover the thigh, pass over the rivers.

Read full chapter

Take millstones(A) and grind(B) flour;
    take off your veil.(C)
Lift up your skirts,(D) bare your legs,
    and wade through the streams.

Read full chapter

Thy nakedness shall be uncovered, yea, thy shame shall be seen: I will take vengeance, and I will not meet thee as a man.

Read full chapter

Your nakedness(A) will be exposed
    and your shame(B) uncovered.
I will take vengeance;(C)
    I will spare no one.(D)

Read full chapter

Behold, I am against thee, saith the Lord of hosts; and I will discover thy skirts upon thy face, and I will shew the nations thy nakedness, and the kingdoms thy shame.

Read full chapter

“I am against(A) you,” declares the Lord Almighty.
    “I will lift your skirts(B) over your face.
I will show the nations your nakedness(C)
    and the kingdoms your shame.

Read full chapter

Art thou better than populous No, that was situate among the rivers, that had the waters round about it, whose rampart was the sea, and her wall was from the sea?

Read full chapter

Are you better than(A) Thebes,(B)
    situated on the Nile,(C)
    with water around her?
The river was her defense,
    the waters her wall.

Read full chapter

Ethiopia and Egypt were her strength, and it was infinite; Put and Lubim were thy helpers.

Read full chapter

Cush[a](A) and Egypt were her boundless strength;
    Put(B) and Libya(C) were among her allies.

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. Nahum 3:9 That is, the upper Nile region