Nahum 3:13 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹³ Look at your troops: they are women in your midst. The gates of your land are wide open to your foes; fire has devoured the bars of your gates.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹³ 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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹³ Behold, your troops in the midst of you are [as weak and helpless as] women; the gates of your land are set wide open to your enemies [without effort]; fire consumes your bars.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹³ 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.

Common English Bible

¹³ Look, your people are women in your midst. The gates of your land have been flung wide open to your enemies. Fire consumes the bars of your gates.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹³ Behold, women are at the center of your people. The gates of your land will be opened wide for your enemies; fire will devour your bars.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹³ Behold thy people in the midst of thee are women: the gates of thy land shall be set wide open to thy enemies, the fire shall devour thy bars.

Nahum 3:13 Cross References

Psalm 107:16

For he shatters the doors of bronze and cuts in two the bars of iron.

Psalm 147:13

For he strengthens the bars of your gates; he blesses your children within you.

Isaiah 19:16

On that day the Egyptians will be like women and tremble with fear before the hand that the Lord of hosts raises against them.

Jeremiah 50:36

A sword against the diviners, so that they may become fools! A sword against her warriors, so that they may be dismayed!

Jeremiah 50:37

A sword against her horses and against her chariots and against all the foreign troops in her midst, so that they may become women! A sword against her treasures, that they may be plundered!

Jeremiah 51:30

The warriors of Babylon have given up fighting; they remain in their strongholds; their strength has failed; they have become women; her buildings are set on fire; her bars are broken.

Obadiah 1:9

Your warriors shall be shattered, O Teman, so that everyone from Mount Esau will be cut off.

Nahum 2:6

The river gates are opened; the palace trembles.

Nahum 2:7

It is decreed that the city be exiled, its slave women led away, moaning like doves and beating their breasts.

Nahum 3:15

There the fire will devour you; the sword will cut you off. It will devour you like the locust. Multiply yourselves like the locust; multiply like the grasshopper!