Nahum 2:9

Brenton's Septuagint

They plundered the silver, they plundered the gold, and there was no end of their adorning; they were loaded with it upon all their pleasant vessels.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
“Plunder the silver! Plunder the gold!” There is no end to the treasure,an abundance of every precious thing.

Hebrew Names Version
Take the spoil of silver. Take the spoil of gold, for there is no end of the store, the glory of all goodly furniture.

King James Version (1611)
Take ye the spoyle of siluer, take the spoile of golde: for there is none end of the store, and glory out of all the pleasant furniture.

King James Version
Take ye the spoil of silver, take the spoil of gold: for there is none end of the store and glory out of all the pleasant furniture.

English Standard Version
Plunder the silver, plunder the gold! There is no end of the treasure or of the wealth of all precious things.

New American Standard Bible
Plunder the silver, Plunder the gold! For there is no end to the treasure— Wealth from every kind of desirable object.

New Century Version
Take the silver! Take the gold! There is no end to the treasure— piles of wealth of every kind.

Amplified Bible
Plunder the silver! Plunder the gold! For there is no end to the treasure— Wealth from every precious object.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Spoyle ye the siluer, spoyle the golde: for there is none ende of the store, and glorie of all the pleasant vessels.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Plunder the silver! Plunder the gold! For there is no limit to the treasure— Wealth from every kind of desirable object.

Legacy Standard Bible
Plunder the silver!Plunder the gold!And there is no limit to the treasure—Wealth from every kind of desirable object.

Berean Standard Bible
"Plunder the silver! Plunder the gold!" There is no end to the treasure, an abundance of every precious thing.

Contemporary English Version
Enemy soldiers shout, "The city is full of treasure and all kinds of wealth. Steal her silver! Grab her gold!"

Complete Jewish Bible
Ninveh is like a pool whose water ebbs away. "Stop! Stop!" But none of it goes back.

Darby Translation
Plunder the silver, plunder the gold; for there is no end of the splendid store of all precious vessels.

Easy-to-Read Version
Take the silver! Take the gold! There are many things to take. There are many treasures.

George Lamsa Translation
Plunder the silver, plunder the gold; for there is no end to the precious ornaments, and abundance of every kind of precious vessels.

Good News Translation
Plunder the silver! Plunder the gold! The city is full of treasure!

Lexham English Bible
Plunder the silver! Plunder the gold! There is no end to the spoils, an abundance of everything one could want!

Literal Translation
Plunder the silver! Plunder the gold! For there is no end to the treasures, riches from all precious objects.

American Standard Version
Take ye the spoil of silver, take the spoil of gold; for there is no end of the store, the glory of all goodly furniture.

Bible in Basic English
Take silver, take gold; for there is no end to the store; take for yourselves a weight of things to be desired.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
But Nineveh hath been from of old like a pool of water; yet they flee away; 'Stand, stand'; but none looketh back.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Take your spoyle of siluer, take your spoyle of golde, for there is no ende of riches: treasure, pashing all treasure.

English Revised Version
Take ye the spoil of silver, take the spoil of gold: for there is none end of the store, the glory of all pleasant furniture.

World English Bible
Take the spoil of silver. Take the spoil of gold, for there is no end of the store, the glory of all goodly furniture.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Rauysche ye siluer, rauysche ye gold; and there is noon ende of richessis, of alle desirable vessels.

Update Bible Version
Take the spoil of silver, take the spoil of gold; for there is no end of the store, the glory of all goodly furniture.

Webster's Bible Translation
Take ye the spoil of silver, take the spoil of gold: for [there is] no end of the store [and] glory out of all the pleasant furniture.

New English Translation
Her conquerors cry out: "Plunder the silver! Plunder the gold!" There is no end to the treasure; riches of every kind of precious thing.

New King James Version
Take spoil of silver! Take spoil of gold! There is no end of treasure, Or wealth of every desirable prize.

New Living Translation
Loot the silver! Plunder the gold! There's no end to Nineveh's treasures— its vast, uncounted wealth.

New Life Bible
Take the silver! Take the gold! For there is no end of the riches, every kind of thing of great worth.

New Revised Standard
"Plunder the silver, plunder the gold! There is no end of treasure! An abundance of every precious thing!"

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Plunder silver, plunder gold, - and there is no end to the costly furnishing, rich with every article of delight.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Take ye the spoil of the silver, take the spoil of the gold: for there is no end of the riches of all the precious furniture.

Revised Standard Version
Plunder the silver, plunder the gold! There is no end of treasure, or wealth of every precious thing.

Young's Literal Translation
Seize ye silver, seize ye gold, And there is no end to the prepared things, [To] the abundance of all desirable vessels.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Awaye with the syluer, awaye with the golde: for here is no ende of treasure. There shalbe a multitude of all maner costly ornamentes.

Contextual Overview

¹ It is all over with him, he has been removed, one who has been delivered from affliction has come up panting into thy presence, watch the way, strengthen thy loins, be very valiant in thy strength. ² For the Lord has turned aside the pride of Jacob, as the pride of Israel: for they have utterly rejected them, and have destroyed their branches. ³ They have destroyed the arms of their power from among men, their mighty men sporting with fire: the reins of their chariots shall be destroyed in the day of his preparation, and the horsemen shall be thrown into confusion ⁴ in the ways, and the chariots shall clash together, and shall be entangled in each other in the broad ways: their appearance is as lamps of fire, and as gleaming lightnings. ⁵ And their mighty men shall bethink themselves and flee by day; and they shall be weak as they go; and they shall hasten to her walls, and shall prepare their defences. ⁶ The gates of the cities have been opened, and the palaces have fallen into ruin, ⁷ and the foundation has been exposed; and she has gone up, and her maid-servants were led away as doves moaning in their hearts. ⁸ And as for Nineve, her waters shall be as a pool of water: and they fled, and staid not, and there was none to look back. ⁹ They plundered the silver, they plundered the gold, and there was no end of their adorning; they were loaded with it upon all their pleasant vessels. ¹⁰ There is thrusting forth, and shaking, and tumult, and heart-breaking, and loosing of knees, and pangs on all loins; and the faces of all are as the blackening of a pot.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

ye: Isaiah 33:1, Isaiah 33:4, Jeremiah 51:56

for there is none end of the store: or, and their infinite store, etc. Nahum 2:12, Nahum 2:13

pleasant furniture: Heb. vessels of desire, 2 Chronicles 36:10, Jeremiah 25:34, Ezekiel 26:12, Daniel 11:8, *marg.

Reciprocal: Isaiah 10:14 - And my Isaiah 16:14 - the glory Jeremiah 51:34 - he hath made Daniel 10:3 - pleasant bread Hosea 13:15 - pleasant vessels Nahum 3:7 - Nineveh

Cross-References

Genesis 2:8
And God planted a garden eastward in Edem, and placed there the man whom he had formed.

Genesis 2:9
And God made to spring up also out of the earth every tree beautiful to the eye and good for food, and the tree of life in the midst of the garden, and the tree of learning the knowledge of good and evil.

Genesis 2:17
but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil—of it ye shall not eat, but in whatsoever day ye eat of it, ye shall surely die.

Genesis 3:3
And the woman said to the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden,

Deuteronomy 6:25
And there shall be mercy to us, if we take heed to keep all these commands before the Lord our God, as he has commanded us.

Proverbs 3:18
She is a tree of life to all that lay hold upon her; and she is a secure help to all that stay themselves on her, as on the Lord.

Proverbs 11:30
Out of the fruit of righteousness grows a tree of life; but the souls of transgressors are cut off before their time.

Isaiah 44:25
Who else will frustrate the tokens of those that have divining spirits, and prophecies from the heart of man? turning the wise back, and making their counsel foolishness;

Isaiah 47:10
for thy trusting in wickedness: for thou saidst, I am, and there is not another: know thou, the understanding of these things and thy harlotry shall be thy shame; for thou saidst in thy heart, I am, and there is not another.

Ezekiel 31:16
At the sound of his fall the nations quaked, when I brought him down to Hades with them that go down to the pit: and all the trees of Delight comforted him in the heart, and the choice of plants of Libanus, all that drink water.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Take ye the spoil of silver, take the spoil of gold,.... Of which there was a great quantity in this rich and populous city: these are the words of the prophet, or of the Lord by the prophet, to the Medes and Chaldeans, to seize the spoil of the city, now fallen into their hands; suggesting that this was by the order and will of God, though they saw it not: or of the generals of the army of the Medes and Babylonians, giving leave to the common soldiers to take part of the plunder, there being enough for them all, officers and private men:

for [there is] none end of the store [and] glory out of all the pleasant furniture: no end of the wealth which had been hoarded up, and of their household goods and rich apparel, which their coffers, houses, and wardrobes, were full of, the value of which could not be told. The king of Assyria, perceiving that he, his family, and his wealth, were like to fall into the hands of the enemy, caused a pile of wood to be raised, and in it heaped his gold, silver, and royal apparel, and, enclosing himself, his eunuchs, and concubines in it, set fire to it, and destroyed himself and them. It is said n there were no less in this pile than a thousand myriads of talents of gold, which are about fourteen hundred millions sterling, and ten times as many talents of silver, together with apparel and furniture unspeakable; and yet, after all this, the princes of the Babylonians and Medes carried off vast quantities. The Babylonian prince loaded several ships with the ashes of the pile, and a large quantity of gold and silver, discovered to him by an eunuch, a deserter; and the Median prince, what of the gold and silver left out of the pile, which were many talents, that fell into his hands, he sent to Ecbatana, the royal city of Media o.

n Athenaeus apud Rollin's Ancient History, &c. vol. 2. p. 31, 32. See the Universal History, vol. 4. p. 306. o Diodor. Sicul. l. 2. p. 114, 115.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Take ye the spoil of silver, take the spoil of gold - Nineveh had not hearkened of old to the voice of the prophet, but had turned back to sin; it cannot hearken now, for fear. He turns to the spoiler to whom God’s judgments assigned her, and who is too ready to hear. The gold and silver, which the last Assyrian King had gathered into the palace which he fired, was mostly removed (the story says, treacherously) to Babylon. Arbaces is said to have borne this and to have removed the residue, to the amount of many talents, to Agbatana, the Median capital . “For there is none end of the store.” Nineveh had stored up from her foundation until then, but at last for the spoiler. “When thou shalt cease to spoil, thou shalt be spoiled” Isaiah 33:1. Many “perish and leave their wealth to others” Psalms 49:10. “The wealth of the sinner is laid up for the just” Proverbs 13:22. “And glory out of all the pleasant furniture,” (literally as in the margin, “glory out of all vessels of desire”) i. e., however large the spoil, it would be but a portion only; yet all their wealth, though more than enough for the enemy and for them, could not save them. Her “glory,” was but a “weight” to weigh her down, that she should not rise again Zechariah 5:8; Exodus 15:10. Their wealth brought on the day of calamity, availed not therein, although it could not be drawn dry even by the spoiler. Jerome: “They could not spoil so much as she supplied to be spoiled.”

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 9. Take ye the spoil — Though the king burnt his treasures, vestments, c., he could not totally destroy the silver and the gold. Nor did he burn the riches of the city these fell a prey to the conquerors; and there was no end of the store of glorious garments, and the most costly vessels and furniture.