Nahum 2:3 Parallel Translations

The shields of his mighty men are colored red, The warriors are dressed in scarlet, The chariots are enveloped in flashing steel When he is prepared to march, And the cypress spears are brandished. (NASB ©1995)

GWT:

The shields of his warriors are painted red. His soldiers have red uniforms. The metal on his chariots flashes fiery red, so do the spears when they are waved on the day he prepares for battle.(GOD'S WORD®)

KJV:

The shield of his mighty men is made red, the valiant men are in scarlet: the chariots shall be with flaming torches in the day of his preparation, and the fir trees shall be terribly shaken.

ASV:

The shield of his mighty men is made red, the valiant men are in scarlet: the chariots flash with steel in the day of his preparation, and the cypress'spears are brandished.

BBE:

The body-covers of his fighting men have been made red, the men of war are clothed in bright red: the war-carriages are like flames of fire in the day when he gets ready, the horses are shaking.

DBY:

The shield of his mighty men is made red, the valiant men are in scarlet: the chariots glitter with the sheen of steel, in the day of his preparation, and the spears are brandished.

ERV:

The shield of his mighty men is made red, the valiant men are in scarlet: the chariots flash with steel in the day of his preparation, and the spears are shaken terribly.

JPS:

The shield of his mighty men is made red, the valiant men are in scarlet; the chariots are fire of steel in the day of his preparation, and the cypress spears are made to quiver.

WBS:

The shield of his mighty men is made red, the valiant men are in scarlet: the chariots shall be with flaming torches in the day of his preparation, and the fir-trees shall be terribly shaken.

WEB:

The shield of his mighty men is made red. The valiant men are in scarlet. The chariots flash with steel in the day of his preparation, and the pine spears are brandished.

YLT:

The shield of his mighty ones is become red, Men of might are in scarlet, With fiery torches is the chariot in a day of his preparation, And the firs have been caused to tremble.

Nahum 2:3 Cross References

XREF:

Job 39:23 "The quiver rattles against him, The flashing spear and javelin.

Ezekiel 23:14 "So she increased her harlotries. And she saw men portrayed on the wall, images of the Chaldeans portrayed with vermilion,

Ezekiel 23:15 girded with belts on their loins, with flowing turbans on their heads, all of them looking like officers, like the Babylonians in Chaldea, the land of their birth. (NASB ©1995)

Commentaries and Concordances

GSB:

2:3 The shield of his mighty men is made red, {d} the valiant men [are] in scarlet: the chariots [shall be] with flaming torches in the day of his preparation, and {e} the fir trees shall be terribly shaken.
(d) Both to put fear into the enemy, and also that they themselves should not so soon detect blood among one another, to discourage them.
(e) Meaning their spears would shake and crash together.

WES:

2:3 The shield - One part for the whole of the armour, and furniture. Mighty men - Medes or Chaldeans. Red - With the blood of the slain. Torches - Torches were always carried in them. In the day - When he shall muster his armies. Shaken - By axes cutting them down for the war.

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:

Array Body-covers Brandished Bright Caused Chargers Chariot Chariots Clad Clothed Colored Cypress Dressed Enveloped Fiery Fighting Fir Fire Firs Fir-trees Flame Flames Flaming Flash Flashes Flashing Gets Glitter Horses March Metal Mighty Mustered Ones Pine Prance Preparation Prepared Quiver Ready Red Scarlet Shaken Shaking Sheen Shield Shields Soldiers Spears Steel Terribly Torches Trees Tremble Valiant War War-carriages Warriors

Array Body-Covers Brandished Bright Chargers Chariots Clad Clothed Colored Cypress Dressed Enveloped Fighting Fir Fire Fir-Trees Flame Flames Flaming Flash Flashes Flashing Horses March Metal Mighty Mustered Pine Prance Preparation Prepared Quiver Ready Red Scarlet Shaken Shaking Shield Shields Spears Steel Terribly Torches Trees Valiant Warriors

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