Nahum 3:13

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Interconfessional

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.

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 destroyed!

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 all 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!