Nahum 3:8

WEB

⁸Are 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?

KJV

⁸Art 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?

BSB

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

FBV

⁸Are you any better than the city of Thebes^[+] on the River Nile, surrounded by water? Water was its defense, water was its wall.

Extra References

Amos 6:2

²Go to Calneh, and see. From there go to Hamath the great. Then go down to Gath of the Philistines. Are they better than these kingdoms? Is their border greater than your border?

¹⁴I will make Pathros desolate, and will set a fire in Zoan, and will execute judgments on No. ¹⁵I will pour my wrath on Sin, the stronghold of Egypt. I will cut off the multitude of No. ¹⁶I will set a fire in Egypt Sin will be in great anguish. No will be broken up. Memphis will have adversaries in the daytime.

Ezekiel 31:2-3

²“Son of man, tell Pharaoh king of Egypt and his multitude: ‘Whom are you like in your greatness? ³Behold, the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon with beautiful branches, and with a forest-like shade, of high stature; and its top was among the thick boughs.

Jeremiah 46:25-26

²⁵The LORD of Armies, the God of Israel, says: “Behold, I will punish Amon of No, and Pharaoh, and Egypt, with her gods and her kings, even Pharaoh, and those who trust in him. ²⁶I will deliver them into the hand of those who seek their lives, and into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of his servants. Afterwards it will be inhabited, as in the days of old,” says the LORD.

Isaiah 19:5-10

⁵The waters will fail from the sea, and the river will be wasted and become dry. ⁶The rivers will become foul. The streams of Egypt will be diminished and dried up. The reeds and flags will wither away. ⁷The meadows by the Nile, by the brink of the Nile, and all the sown fields of the Nile, will become dry, be driven away, and be no more. ⁸The fishermen will lament, and all those who fish in the Nile will mourn, and those who spread nets on the waters will languish. ⁹Moreover those who work in combed flax, and those who weave white cloth, will be confounded. ¹⁰The pillars will be broken in pieces. All those who work for hire will be grieved in soul.