Nahum 3:9

New American Standard Bible (1995)

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

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.

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.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Ethiope is strengthe therof, and Egipt, and there is noon ende; Affrik and Libie weren in help therof.

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 Are you better than No-amon, Which was situated by the waters of the Nile, With water surrounding her, Whose rampart was the sea, Whose wall consisted of the sea? ⁹ Ethiopia was her might, And Egypt too, without limits. Put and Lubim were among her helpers.¹⁰ Yet she became an exile, She went into captivity; Also her small children were dashed to pieces At the head of every street; They cast lots for her honorable men, And all her great men were bound with fetters. ¹¹ You too will become drunk, You will be hidden. You too will search for a refuge from the enemy. ¹² All your fortifications are fig trees with ripe fruit— When shaken, they fall into the eater's mouth. ¹³ Behold, your people are women in your midst! The gates of your land are opened wide to your enemies; Fire consumes your gate bars. ¹⁴ Draw for yourself water for the siege! Strengthen your fortifications! Go into the clay and tread the mortar! Take hold of the brick mold! ¹⁵ There fire will consume you, The sword will cut you down; It will consume you as the locust does. Multiply yourself like the creeping locust, Multiply yourself like the swarming locust. ¹⁶ You have increased your traders more than the stars of heaven— The creeping locust strips and flies away. ¹⁷ Your guardsmen are like the swarming locust. Your marshals are like hordes of grasshoppers Settling in the stone walls on a cold day. The sun rises and they flee, And the place where they are is not known.

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
The man said, "The woman whom You gave to be with me, she gave me from the tree, and I ate."

Genesis 3:13
Then the LORD God said to the woman, "What is this you have done?" And the woman said, "The serpent deceived me, and I ate."

Genesis 3:17
Then to Adam He said, "Because you have listened to the voice of your wife, and have eaten from the tree about which I commanded you, saying, 'You shall not eat from it'; Cursed is the ground because of you; In toil you will eat of it All the days of your life.

Genesis 3:19
By the sweat of your face You will eat bread, Till you return to the ground, Because from it you were taken; For you are dust, And to dust you shall return."

Genesis 3:20
Now the man called his wife's name Eve, because she was the mother of all the living.

Genesis 3:21
The LORD God made garments of skin for Adam and his wife, and clothed them.

Genesis 4:9
Then the LORD said to Cain, "Where is Abel your brother?" And he said, "I do not know. Am I my brother's keeper?"

Genesis 11:5
The LORD came down to see the city and the tower which the sons of men had built.

Genesis 16:8
He said, "Hagar, Sarai's maid, where have you come from and where are you going?" And she said, "I am fleeing from the presence of my mistress Sarai."

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.