2 Samuel 22:43

22:43 I grind them as fine as the dust of the ground;

I crush them and stomp on them like clay ¹  in the streets.

Yesaya 5:5

5:5 Now I will inform you

what I am about to do to my vineyard:

I will remove its hedge and turn it into pasture, ² 

I will break its wall and allow animals to graze there. ³ 

Nahum 3:14

3:14 Draw yourselves water for a siege! ⁴ 

Strengthen your fortifications!

Trample the mud ⁵  and tread the clay!

Make mud bricks to strengthen your walls! ⁶ 

[22:43]  ¹ tn Or “mud” (so NAB, NIV, CEV). See HALOT 374 s.v. טִיט.

[5:5]  ² tn Heb “and it will become [a place for] grazing.” בָּעַר (ba’ar, “grazing”) is a homonym of the more often used verb “to burn.”

[5:5]  ³ tn Heb “and it will become a trampled place” (NASB “trampled ground”).

[3:14]  ⁴ tn Heb “waters of siege.”

[3:14]  ⁵ tn Heb “go into the mud.”

[3:14]  ⁶ tn Heb “Take hold of the mud-brick mold!”