Nahum 3:13

New Living Translation

Your troops will be as weak and helpless as women. The gates of your land will be opened wide to the enemy and set on fire and burned.

Cross References

Psalm 107:16

For he broke down their prison gates of bronze; he cut apart their bars of iron.

Psalm 147:13

For he has strengthened the bars of your gates and blessed your children within your walls.

Isaiah 19:16

In that day the Egyptians will be as weak as women. They will cower in fear beneath the upraised fist of the Lord of Heaven’s Armies.

Jeremiah 50:36

The sword will strike her wise counselors, and they will become fools. The sword will strike her mightiest warriors, and panic will seize them.

Jeremiah 50:37

The sword will strike her horses and chariots and her allies from other lands, and they will all become like women. The sword will strike her treasures, and they all will be plundered.

Jeremiah 51:30

Her mightiest warriors no longer fight. They stay in their barracks, their courage gone. They have become like women. The invaders have burned the houses and broken down the city gates.

Obadiah 1:9

The mightiest warriors of Teman will be terrified, and everyone on the mountains of Edom will be cut down in the slaughter.

Nahum 2:6

The river gates have been torn open! The palace is about to collapse!

Nahum 2:7

Nineveh’s exile has been decreed, and all the servant girls mourn its capture. They moan like doves and beat their breasts in sorrow.

Nahum 3:15

But the fire will devour you; the sword will cut you down. The enemy will consume you like locusts, devouring everything they see. There will be no escape, even if you multiply like swarming locusts.