Nahum 3:9

Wycliffe Bible

Ethiope is strengthe therof, and Egipt, and there is noon ende; Affrik and Libie weren in help therof.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Cush and Egypt were her endless source of strength;Put and Libya were among her allies.

Hebrew Names Version
Kush and Mitzrayim were her boundless strength. Put and Luvim were her helpers.

King James Version (1611)
Ethiopia and Egypt were her strength, and it was infinit, Put and Lubim were thy helpers.

King James Version
Ethiopia and Egypt were her strength, and it was infinite; Put and Lubim were thy helpers.

English Standard Version
Cush was her strength; Egypt too, and that without limit; Put and the Libyans were her helpers.

New American Standard Bible
Ethiopia was her might, Egypt too, without limits. Put and Lubim were among her helpers.

New Century Version
Cush and Egypt gave her endless strength; Put and Libya supported her.

Amplified Bible
Ethiopia was her strength, And Egypt too, without limits. Put and Lubim were among her helpers.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Ethiopia and Egypt were her strength, and there was none ende: Put and Lubim were her helpers.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Ethiopia was her might, And Egypt too, without limits. Put and Lubim were among her helpers.

Legacy Standard Bible
Ethiopia was her might,And Egypt too, without end.Put and Lubim were among her helpers.

Berean Standard Bible
Cush and Egypt were her boundless strength; Put and Libya were her allies.

Contemporary English Version
Thebes trusted the mighty power of Ethiopia and Egypt; the nations of Put and Libya were her allies.

Complete Jewish Bible
Ethiopia and Egypt gave her boundless strength, Put and Luvim were there to help you.

Darby Translation
Ethiopia was her strength, and Egypt, and it was infinite; Phut and the Libyans were her helpers.

Easy-to-Read Version
Ethiopia and Egypt made Thebes strong. Libya and the Sudan supported her,

George Lamsa Translation
Ethiopia and Egypt were her strength, and it was limitless; Put and the Libyans were her helpers;

Good News Translation
She ruled Ethiopia and Egypt, there was no limit to her power; Libya was her ally.

Lexham English Bible
Cush was her strength, Egypt without end; Put and Libya were among your allies.

Literal Translation
Ethiopia and Egypt were her strength, yea, without end; Put and Lubim were among your helpers.

American Standard Version
Ethiopia and Egypt were her strength, and it was infinite; Put and Lubim were thy helpers.

Bible in Basic English
Ethiopia was her strength and Egyptians without number; Put and Lubim were her helpers.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Ethiopia and Egypt were thy strength, and it was infinite; Put and Lubim were thy helpers.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Ethiopia and Egypt [were thy] strength, and there was none end [of ayde,] Phut and Lubim were thy helpers.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And Ethiopia is her strength, and Egypt; and there was no limit of the flight of her enemies; and the Libyans became her helpers.

English Revised Version
Ethiopia and Egypt were her strength, and it was infinite; Put and Lubim were thy helpers.

World English Bible
Cush and Egypt were her boundless strength. Put and Libya were her helpers.

Update Bible Version
Ethiopia and Egypt were her strength, and it was infinite; Put and Lubim were your helpers.

Webster's Bible Translation
Cush and Egypt [were] her strength, and [it was] infinite; Put and Lubim were thy helpers.

New English Translation
Cush and Egypt had limitless strength; Put and the Libyans were among her allies.

New King James Version
Ethiopia and Egypt were her strength,And it was boundless;Put and Lubim were your [fn] helpers.

New Living Translation
Ethiopia and the land of Egypt gave unlimited assistance. The nations of Put and Libya were among her allies.

New Life Bible
Ethiopia and Egypt were her strength, with too many to number. Put and Lubim were among her helpers.

New Revised Standard
Ethiopia was her strength, Egypt too, and that without limit; Put and the Libyans were her helpers.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Ethiopia, was her strength, and Egypt - Yea, without end, - Put and Lubim, were among thy helpers.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Ethiopia and Egypt were the strength thereof, and there is no end: Africa and the Libyans were thy helpers.

Revised Standard Version
Ethiopia was her strength, Egypt too, and that without limit; Put and the Libyans were her helpers.

Young's Literal Translation
Cush her might, and Egypt, and there is no end. Put and Lubim have been for thy help.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Ethiopia and Egipte were hir stregth, & that exceadinge greate aboue measure. Aphrica and Lybia were hir helpers,

Contextual Overview

⁸ Whether thou art betere than Alisaundre of puplis, that dwellith in floodis? Watris ben in cumpas therof, whos richessis is the see, watris ben wallis therof. ⁹ Ethiope is strengthe therof, and Egipt, and there is noon ende; Affrik and Libie weren in help therof. ¹⁰ But and it in `passyng ouer is led in to caitifte; the litle children therof ben hurtlid doun in the heed of alle weies. And on the noble men therof thei kesten lot, and alle grete men therof ben set togidere in gyues. ¹¹ And thou therfor schalt be drunkun, and schalt be dispisid, and thou schalt seke helpe of enemye. ¹² Al thi strengthis as a fige tree, with hise figis vnripe; if thei schulen be schakun, thei schulen falle in to the mouth of the etere. ¹³ Lo! thi puple ben wymmen in the myddil of thee; the yatis of thi lond schulen be schewid to openyng to thin enemyes; fier schal deuoure thin herris. ¹⁴ Drawe vp to thee water for asegyng, bilde thi strengthis; entre in fen, and trede, thou vndurgoynge holde a tiel stoon. ¹⁵ There fier schal ete thee, thou schalt perische bi swerd, it schal deuoure thee, as bruke doith; be thou gaderid togidere as a bruke, be thou multiplied as a locuste. ¹⁶ Thou madist thi marchaundises mo than ben sterris of heuene; a bruke is spred abrood, and flei awei. ¹⁷ Thi keperis ben as locustis, and thi litle children ben as locustis of locustis, whiche sitten togidere in heggis in the dai of coold; the sun is risun, and thei fledden awei, and the place of hem is not knowun, where thei weren.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Ethiopia: Isaiah 20:5, Jeremiah 46:9

Put: Genesis 10:6, 1 Chronicles 1:8, Ezekiel 27:10, Ezekiel 30:5, Ezekiel 38:5

thy helpers: Heb. in thy help

Reciprocal: 2 Chronicles 12:3 - Lubims Jeremiah 46:25 - and their Ezekiel 29:15 - rule Ezekiel 30:6 - They also

Cross-References

Genesis 3:12
And Adam seide, The womman which thou yauest felowe to me, yaf me of the tre, and Y eet.

Genesis 3:13
And the Lord seide to the womman, Whi didist thou this thing? Which answerde, The serpent disseyued me, and Y eet.

Genesis 3:17
Sothely God seyde to Adam, For thou herdist the voys of thi wijf, and hast ete of the tree, of which Y comaundide to thee that thou schuldist not ete, the erthe schal be cursid in thi werk; in traueylis thou schalt ete therof in alle daies of thi lijf;

Genesis 3:19
in swoot of thi cheer thou schalt ete thi breed, til thou turne ayen in to the erthe of which thou art takun; for thou art dust, and thou schalt turne ayen in to dust.

Genesis 3:20
And Adam clepide the name of his wijf Eue, for sche was the moder of alle men lyuynge.

Genesis 3:21
And the Lord God made cootis of skynnys to Adam and Eue his wijf, and clothide hem; and seide, Lo!

Genesis 4:9
And the Lord seide to Cayn, Where is Abel thi brother? Which answerde, Y woot not; whether Y am the kepere of my brothir?

Genesis 11:5
Forsothe the Lord cam down to se the citee and tour, which the sones of Adam bildiden.

Genesis 16:8
he seide to hir, Fro whennus comest thou Agar, the seruauntesse of Sarai, and whidur goist thou? Which answerde, Y fle fro the face of Sarai my ladi.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Ethiopia and Egypt [were] her strength,.... That is, the strength, support, protection, and defence of No, whether Alexandria, or Thebes, or Memphis: Egypt was, for these cities were in it, and subject to it; or, if this was a free city, as some think, yet in alliance with Egypt, and under its protection; and in like connection it was with Ethiopia, that is, Arabia, a country that lay near to it; and yet, though it was strengthened by such powerful neighbours and allies, it was not secure from the devastation of the enemy:

and it [was] infinite; or there was "no end" o; of its strength, or of the number of its allies, or the forces they were able to bring in its defence. The Ethiopians were very numerous, as may be learnt from 2 Chronicles 14:9 and so were the Egyptians, to whom some interpreters strictly connect this sentence. In the times of Amasis, as Mela p relates, there were twenty thousand cities inhabited in it; and Josephus q says there were in it seven hundred and fifty myriads of men; as Sethon, king of Egypt, and Tirhakah, king of Ethiopia, were about this time the allies of the Jews, in whom they trusted, no doubt they were confederate together, and so both the strength of this city; see Isaiah 36:6:

Put and Lubim, were thy helpers; Put, or the Putim, were the people of the Moors, that dwelt in Mauritania; and Lubim were the Lybians that bordered on Egypt, and whose country is sometimes reckoned a part of it. The Jews r say Lybia is Egypt; see Acts 2:10 these several people were the confederates of No; and helped them, not only by their commerce with them, but in time of war assisted them against their enemies; and yet, though so strengthened by alliances, were not safe and secure; and therefore Nineveh could not depend upon such helps and helpers.

o ואין קצה "non est finis", Pagninus, Montanus, Munster, Cocceius. p De Orbis Situ. l. 1. c. 9. q De Bello Jud. l. 2. c. 16. sect. 4. r T. Hieros. Celaim, c. 8. fol. 31. 3.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Ethiopia and Egypt were her strength - Literally, “Egypt was strength , and Ethiopia, and boundless.” He sets forth first the imperial might of No; then her strength from foreign, subdued power. The capital is a sort of impersonation of the might of the state; No, of Egypt, as Nineveh, of Assyria. When the head was cut off or the heart ceased to beat, all was lost. The might of Egypt and Ethiopia was the might of No, concentrated in her. They were strength, and that strength unmeasured by any human standard. Boundless was the strength, which Nineveh had subdued: boundless, the store Nahum 2:10 which she had accumulated for the spoiler; boundless Nahum 3:3 the carcasses of her slain. “And it was infinite.” “The people that came up with the king out of Egypt, were without number” 2 Chronicles 12:3. The Egyptians connected with Thebes are counted by a pagan author at seven million. Put or Phut is mentioned third among the sons of Ham, after Cash anal Mizraim Genesis 10:6. They are mentioned with the Ethiopians in Pharaoh’s army at the Euphrates , as joined with them in the visitation of Egypt Ezekiel 30:5; with Cush in the army of Gog Ezekiel 38:15; with Lud in that of Tyre Ezekiel 29:10; a country and river of that name were, Josephus tells us , “frequently mentioned by Greek historians.” They dwelt in the Libya, conterminous to the Canopic mouth of the Nile .

And Lubim - These came up against Judah in the army of Shishak 2 Chronicles 12:3 against Rehoboam, and with the Ethiopians, “a huge host” under Zerah the Ethiopian against Asa . The Ribou or Libou appear on the monuments as a people conquered by Menephthes and Rameses III . They were still to be united with Egypt and the Ethiopians in the times of Antiochus Epiphanes Daniel 11:43; so their connection with Egypt was not broken by its fall. Those unwearied enemies had become incorporated with her; and were now her help. These were (English Margin) in thy help; set upon it, given up to it. The prophet appeals to No herself, as it were, “Thou hadst strength.” Then he turns away, to speak of her, unwilling to look on the miseries which he has to portray to Nineveh, as the preludes of her own. Without God, vain is the help of man.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 9. Ethiopia and Egypt were her strength — The land of Cush, not far from Diospolis; for it was in Arabia, on the Red Sea.

Put and Lubim — A part of Africa and Libya, which were all within reach of forming alliances with No-Ammon or Diospolis.