Nahum 3:13

Bible in Basic English 1965

See, the people who are in you are women; the doorways of your land are wide open to your attackers: the locks of your doors have been burned away in the fire.

Cross References

Psalm 107:16

The doors of brass are broken by his arm, and the bands of iron are cut in two.

Psalm 147:13

He has made strong the iron bands of your doors; he has sent blessings on your children inside your walls.

Isaiah 19:16

In that day the Egyptians will be like women: and the land will be shaking with fear because of the waving of the Lord's hand stretched out over it.

Jeremiah 50:36

A sword is on the men of pride, and they will become foolish: a sword is on her men of war, and they will be broken.

Jeremiah 50:37

A sword is on all the mixed people in her, and they will become like women: a sword is on her store-houses, and they will be taken by her attackers.

Jeremiah 51:30

Babylon's men of war have kept back from the fight, waiting in their strong places; their strength has given way, they have become like women: her houses have been put on fire, her locks are broken.

Obadiah 1:9

And your men of war, O Teman, will be overcome with fear, so that every one of them may be cut off from the mountain of Esau.

Nahum 2:6

The river doorways are forced open, and the king's house is flowing away.

Nahum 2:7

And the queen is uncovered, she is taken away and her servant-girls are weeping like the sound of doves, hammering on their breasts.

Nahum 3:15

There the fire will make you waste; you will be cut off by the sword: make yourself as great in number as the worms, as great in number as the locusts.