Nahum 3:8

Berean Standard Bible (BSB)

Are you better than Thebes, stationed by the Nile with water around her, whose rampart was the sea, whose wall was the water?

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6 I will pelt you with filth and treat you with contempt; I will make a spectacle of you.

7 Then all who see you will recoil from you and say, ‘Nineveh is devastated; who will grieve for her?’ Where can I find comforters for you?”

8 Are you better than Thebes, stationed by the Nile with water around her, whose rampart was the sea, whose wall was the water?

9 Cush and Egypt were her boundless strength; Put and Libya were her allies.

10 Yet she became an exile; she went into captivity. Her infants were dashed to pieces at the head of every street. They cast lots for her dignitaries, and all her nobles were bound in chains.

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Nahum 3:8 in every translation

BSB Berean Standard Bible: Are you better than Thebes, stationed by the Nile with water around her, whose rampart was the sea, whose wall was the water?
KJV King James Version: Art thou better than populous No, that was situate among the rivers, that had the waters round about it, whose rampart was the sea, and her wall was from the sea?
WEB World English Bible: Are you better than No-Amon, who was situated among the rivers, who had the waters around her, whose rampart was the sea, and her wall was of the sea?
ASV American Standard Version: Art thou better than No-amon, that was situate among the rivers, that had the waters round about her; whose rampart was the sea, and her wall was of the sea?
YLT Young's Literal Translation: Art thou better than No-Ammon, That is dwelling among brooks? Waters she hath round about her, Whose bulwark [is] the sea, waters her wall.
DBY Darby Translation: Art thou better than No-Amon, that was situate among the rivers, [that had] the waters round about her, whose rampart was the sea, [and] of the sea was her wall?
WBS Webster Bible: Art thou better than populous No, that was situated among the rivers, that had the waters around it, whose rampart was the sea, and her wall was from the sea?