Nahum 3:13
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Look at your troops— they are like your women! The gates of your land are wide open to your enemies; fire consumes their bars.”
Read Nahum 3:13 in the flow of Nahum3 for its full sense, then follow the cross-references below to the passages that echo it. Open Nahum3 to see the surrounding context.
“Look at your troops— they are like your women! The gates of your land are wide open to your enemies; fire consumes their bars.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“Behold, thy people in the midst of thee are women: the gates of thy land shall be set wide open unto thine enemies: the fire shall devour thy bars.”
King James Version · Public Domain“Behold, thy people in the midst of thee are women; the gates of thy land are set wide open unto thine enemies: the fire hath devoured thy bars.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“Lo, thy people <FI>are<Fi> women in thy midst, To thine enemies thoroughly opened Have been the gates of thy land, Consumed hath fire thy bars.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Nahum 3:13 — 10 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Psalms 107:16For He has broken down the gates of bronze and cut through the bars of iron.
- Psalms 147:13For He strengthens the bars of your gates and blesses the children within you.
- Isaiah 19:16In that day the Egyptians will be like women. They will tremble with fear beneath the uplifted hand of the LORD of Hosts, when He brandishes it against them.
- Isaiah 45:1This is what the LORD says to Cyrus His anointed, whose right hand I have grasped to subdue nations before him, to disarm kings, to open the doors before him, so that the gates will not be shut:
- Isaiah 45:2“I will go before you and level the mountains; I will break down the gates of bronze and cut through the bars of iron.
- Jeremiah 50:37A sword is against her horses and chariots and against all the foreigners in her midst, and they will become like women. A sword is against her treasuries, and they will be plundered.
- Jeremiah 51:30The warriors of Babylon have stopped fighting; they sit in their strongholds. Their strength is exhausted; they have become like women. Babylon’s homes have been set ablaze, the bars of her gates are broken.
- Obadiah 1:9Then your mighty men, O Teman, will be terrified, so that everyone in the mountains of Esau will be cut down in the slaughter.
- Nahum 2:6The river gates are thrown open and the palace collapses.
- Nahum 2:7It is decreed that the city be exiled and carried away; her maidservants moan like doves, and beat upon their breasts.
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