American Standard Version
"The gates of the rivers are opened, and the palace is dissolved. "
— Nahum 2:6, American Standard Version
“The gates of the rivers shall be opened, and the palace shall be dissolved.”
“The gates of the rivers are opened, and the palace is dissolved.”
“The sluice gates are opened; the royal palace is deluged and dissolves.”
“The gates of the rivers are opened, and the temple is thrown down to the ground.”
“The river doorways are forced open, and the king's house is flowing away.”
“The gates of the rivers shall be opened, and the palace shall be dissolved.”
The shield of his mighty men is made red, the valiant men are in scarlet: the chariots flash with steel in the day of his preparation, and the cypress spears are brandished.
The chariots rage in the streets; they rush to and fro in the broad ways: the appearance of them is like torches; they run like the lightnings.
He remembereth his nobles: they stumble in their march; they make haste to the wall thereof, and the mantelet is prepared.
The gates of the rivers are opened, and the palace is dissolved.
And it is decreed: she is uncovered, she is carried away; and her handmaids moan as with the voice of doves, beating upon their breasts.
But Nineveh hath been from of old like a pool of water: yet they flee away. Stand, stand, they cry; but none looketh back.
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.