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Nahum 3:13

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Behold, your troops among you are women. The gates of your land are set wide open to your enemies. The fire has devoured your bars.

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Nahum 3:13 in other translations

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.

Nahum 3:13 · American Standard Version

Nahum 3:13 in context

  1. 11You also will be drunken. You will be hidden. You also will seek a stronghold because of the enemy.
  2. 12All your fortresses will be like fig trees with the first-ripe figs: if they are shaken, they fall into the mouth of the eater.
  3. 13Behold, your troops among you are women. The gates of your land are set wide open to your enemies. The fire has devoured your bars.
  4. 14Draw water for the siege. Strengthen your fortresses. Go into the clay, and tread the mortar. Make the brick kiln strong.
  5. 15There the fire will devour you. The sword will cut you off. It will devour you like the grasshopper. Multiply like grasshoppers. Multiply like the locust.