Nahum 2:9

Myles Coverdale Bible

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

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.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
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.

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.

Contextual Overview

¹ The scaterer shal come vp agaynst the, & laye sege to the castell. Loke thou wel to the stretes, make thy loynes stronge, arme thy self with all thy myght: ² for the LORDE shal restore agayne the glory of Iacob, like as ye glory of Israel. The destroyers haue broken them downe, & marred the wyne braunches. ³ The shylde of his giauntes glistereth, his men of warre are clothed in purple. His charettes are as fyre, when he maketh him forwarde, his archers are wel deckte & trimmed. ⁴ The charettes rolle vpon the stretes, & welter in the hye wayes. They are to loke vpon like cressettes of fyre, and go swyftly, as the lightenynge. ⁵ When he doth but warne his giauntes, they fall in their araye, & haistely they clymme vp the walles: yee the engyns of the warre are prepared all ready. ⁶ The water portes shal be opened, and the kinges palace shall fall. ⁷ The quene hir self shal be led awaye captyue, and hir gentilwomen shal mourne as the doues, & grone within their hertes. ⁸ Niniue is like a pole full of water, but then shal they be fayne to fle. Stonde, stode, (shal they crie) & there shal not one turne backe. ⁹ Awaye with the syluer, awaye with the golde: for here is no ende of treasure. There shalbe a multitude of all maner costly ornamentes. ¹⁰ Thus must she be spoyled, emptied & clene striped out: that their hertes maye be melted awaye, their knees treble, all their loynes be weake, and their faces blacke as a pot.

Bible Verse Review
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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
The LORDE God also planted a garde of pleasure in Eden, towarde ye east, and set man therin whom he had made.

Genesis 2:9
And the LORDE God caused to sprynge out of the earth all maner trees, pleasaut to loke vpo, and good to eate: and the tre of life in the myddest of the garden, and the tre of knowlege of good and euell.

Genesis 2:17
But of ye tre of knowlege of good and euell, shalt thou not eate. For loke in what daye so euer thou eatest therof, thou shalt dye the death.

Genesis 3:3
But as for the frute of the tre that is in the myddes of the garden, God hath sayde: Eate not ye of it, and touch it not, lest ye dye.

Deuteronomy 6:25
And it shall be righteousnes vnto vs before the LORDE oure God, yf we kepe and do all these commaundementes, as he hath commaunded vs.

Proverbs 3:18
She is a tre of life to them that laye holde vpon her, and blessed are they that kepe her fast.

Proverbs 11:30
The frute of the rightuous is as the tre of life, a wyse man also wynneth mens soules.

Isaiah 44:25
I destroye the tokens of witches, and make the Sothsayers go wronge. As for the wise, I turne them bacward, and make their conninge folishnesse.

Isaiah 47:10
For thou hast conforted thy self in thy disceatfulnes, and hast sayde: No ma seith me. Thyne owne wisdome & connynge haue disceaued the, In that thou hast sayde: I am alone, and without me there is none.

Ezekiel 31:16
I wil make the Heithen shake at the sounde of his fall, when I cast him downe to hell, with them yt descende in to the pytte. All the trees of Eden, wt all the chosen and best trees of Libanus, yee and all they that are planted vpon the waters, shal mourne with him also in the lower habitacios:

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.