Nahum 3:13

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

Behold, your troops are women in your midst. The gates of your land are wide open to your foes; fire has devoured your bars.

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 sons within you.

Isaiah 19:16

In that day the Egyptians will be like women, and tremble with fear before the hand which the Lord of hosts shakes over them.

Jeremiah 50:36

A sword upon the diviners, that they may become fools! A sword upon her warriors, that they may be destroyed!

Jeremiah 50:37

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

Jeremiah 51:30

The warriors of Babylon have ceased fighting, they remain in their strongholds; their strength has failed, they have become women; her dwellings are on fire, her bars are broken.

Obadiah 1:9

And your mighty men shall be dismayed, O Teman, so that every man from Mount Esau will be cut off by slaughter.

Nahum 2:6

The river gates are opened, the palace is in dismay;

Nahum 2:7

its mistress is stripped, she is carried off, her maidens lamenting, moaning like doves, and beating their breasts.

Nahum 3:15

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