Nahum 3:13

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

Your army is weak. Fire has destroyed the crossbars on your city gates; now they stand wide open to your enemy.

Cross References

Psalm 107:16

He breaks down bronze gates and shatters iron locks.

Psalm 147:13

He makes your city gates strong and blesses your people by giving them children.

Isaiah 19:16

When the LORD All-Powerful punishes Egypt with his mighty arm, the Egyptians will become terribly weak and will tremble with fear.

Jeremiah 50:36

This war will prove that your prophets are liars and fools. And it will frighten your warriors.

Jeremiah 50:37

Then your chariot horses and the foreigners in your army will refuse to go into battle, and the enemy will carry away everything you treasure.

Jeremiah 51:30

The Babylonian soldiers have lost their strength and courage. They stay in their fortresses, unable to fight, while the enemy breaks through the city gates, then sets their homes on fire.

Obadiah 1:9

Warriors from the city of Teman will be terrified, and you descendants of Esau will be wiped out.

Nahum 2:6

The river gates fly open, and panic floods the palace.

Nahum 2:7

Nineveh is disgraced. The queen is dragged off. Her servant women mourn; they sound like doves, and they beat their breasts in sorrow.

Nahum 3:15

You will still go up in flames and be cut down by swords that will wipe you out like wheat attacked by grasshoppers. So, go ahead and increase like a swarm of locusts!