Nahum 2:2 Parallel Translations

The LORD will restore Jacob's glory like Israel's glory, although enemies have looted it and have destroyed its vines.(GOD'S WORD®)

KJV:

For the LORD hath turned away the excellency of Jacob, as the excellency of Israel: for the emptiers have emptied them out, and marred their vine branches.

ASV:

For Jehovah restoreth the excellency of Jacob, as the excellency of Israel; for the emptiers have emptied them out, and destroyed their vine-branches.

BBE:

For the Lord will make good the vine of Jacob, as well as the vine of Israel: for the wasters have made them waste and sent destruction on the branches of their vine.

DBY:

For Jehovah hath brought again the glory of Jacob, as the glory of Israel; for the wasters have wasted them, and marred their vine-branches.

ERV:

For the LORD bringeth again the excellency of Jacob, as the excellency of Israel: for the emptiers have emptied them out, and marred their vine branches.

JPS:

For the LORD restoreth the pride of Jacob, as the pride of Israel; for the emptiers have emptied them out, and marred their vine-branches.--

WBS:

For the LORD hath turned away the excellence of Jacob, as the excellence of Israel: for the emptiers have emptied them out, and marred their vine branches.

WEB:

For Yahweh restores the excellency of Jacob, as the excellency of Israel; for the destroyers have destroyed them, and ruined their vine branches.

YLT:

For turned back hath Jehovah to the excellency of Jacob, As to the excellency of Israel, For emptied them out have emptiers, And their branches they have marred.

Nahum 2:2 Cross References

XREF:

Psalm 80:12 Why have You broken down its hedges, So that all who pass that way pick its fruit?

Psalm 80:13 A boar from the forest eats it away And whatever moves in the field feeds on it.

Isaiah 60:15 "Whereas you have been forsaken and hated With no one passing through, I will make you an everlasting pride, A joy from generation to generation.

Ezekiel 37:21 "Say to them, 'Thus says the Lord GOD, "Behold, I will take the sons of Israel from among the nations where they have gone, and I will gather them from every side and bring them into their own land; (NASB ©1995)

Commentaries and Concordances

GSB:

2:2 For the LORD hath {b} turned away the excellency of Jacob, as the excellency of Israel: for the emptiers have emptied them out, and {c} marred their vine branches.
(b) Seeing God has punished his own people Judah and Israel, he will now punish the enemies by whom he scourged them; read Isa 10:12.
(c) Signifying that the Israelites were utterly destroyed.

WES:

2:2 For - Israel and Jacob were more to God, yet he punished them; much more will he punish Nineveh. Turned - Laid low. The excellency - The wealth, the valiant men, all that Jacob gloried in. Jacob - The two tribes. Israel - The ten tribes. Emptied them - Quite exhausted them. Their vine - branches - Destroyed all the fruit of the land.

MHC:

2:1-10 Nineveh shall not put aside this judgment; there is no counsel or strength against the Lord. God looks upon proud cities, and brings them down. Particular account is given of the terrors wherein the invading enemy shall appear against Nineveh. The empire of Assyria is represented as a queen, about to be led captive to Babylon. Guilt in the conscience fills men with terror in an evil day; and what will treasures or glory do for us in times of distress, or in the day of wrath? Yet for such things how many lose their souls!

CONC:

Branches Destroyed Destroyers Destruction Devastated Devastators Emptied Emptiers Excellence Excellency Glory Jacob Laid Majesty Marred Plunderers Pride Restore Restores Restoreth Restoring Ruined Splendor Stripped Though Vine Vine-branches Vines Waste Wasted Wasters

Branches Destroyed Destroyers Devastated Devastators Emptied Excellence Excellency Good Israel Jacob Laid Majesty Marred Plunderers Pride Restore Restores Restoreth Restoring Ruined Splendor Turned Vine Vines Waste Wasters

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