Nahum 2:6
Modern Translations
New International Version
The river gates are thrown open and the palace collapses.

New Living Translation
The river gates have been torn open! The palace is about to collapse!

English Standard Version
The river gates are opened; the palace melts away;

Berean Study Bible
The river gates are thrown open and the palace collapses.

New American Standard Bible
The gates of the rivers are opened And the palace sways back and forth.

NASB 1995
The gates of the rivers are opened And the palace is dissolved.

NASB 1977
The gates of the rivers are opened, And the palace is dissolved.

Amplified Bible
The gates of the rivers [surrounding Nineveh] are opened And the palace [of sun-dried brick] is dissolved [by the torrents].

Christian Standard Bible
The river gates are opened, and the palace erodes away.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
The river gates are opened, and the palace erodes away.

Contemporary English Version
The river gates fly open, and panic floods the palace.

Good News Translation
The gates by the river burst open; the palace is filled with terror.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
The gates of the rivers are opened, and the palace melts away.

International Standard Version
The river gates will be opened, and the palace will collapse.

NET Bible
The sluice gates are opened; the royal palace is deluged and dissolves.
Classic Translations
King James Bible
The gates of the rivers shall be opened, and the palace shall be dissolved.

New King James Version
The gates of the rivers are opened, And the palace is dissolved.

King James 2000 Bible
The gates of the rivers shall be opened, and the palace shall be dissolved.

New Heart English Bible
The gates of the rivers are opened, and the palace is dissolved.

World English Bible
The gates of the rivers are opened, and the palace is dissolved.

American King James Version
The gates of the rivers shall be opened, and the palace shall be dissolved.

American Standard Version
The gates of the rivers are opened, and the palace is dissolved.

A Faithful Version
The gates of the rivers shall be opened, and the palace shall be helpless.

Darby Bible Translation
The gates of the rivers are opened, and the palace melteth away.

English Revised Version
The gates of the rivers are opened, and the palace is dissolved.

Webster's Bible Translation
The gates of the rivers shall be opened, and the palace shall be dissolved.

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
The gates of the riuers shalbe opened, and the palace shall melt.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
The riuer gates are opened, and the palace dissolued.

Coverdale Bible of 1535
The water portes shal be opened, and the kinges palace shall fall.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
Gates of the rivers have been opened, "" And the palace is dissolved.

Young's Literal Translation
Gates of the rivers have been opened, And the palace is dissolved.

Smith's Literal Translation
The gates of the rivers were opened, and the temple melted away.

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
The gates of the rivers are opened, and the temple is thrown down to the ground.

Catholic Public Domain Version
The gates of the rivers have been opened, and the temple has been pulled down to the ground.

Translations from Aramaic
Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
The gates of Judea were opened and the Temple shook

Lamsa Bible
The city gates are opened and the palace trembles.

OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
The gates of the rivers are opened, And the palace is dissolved.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
The gates of the cities have been opened, and the palaces have fallen into ruin,
















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