On that day Egypt will be like women and will tremble with fear because of the threatening hand of the Lord of Armies when he raises it against them.
Nahum 3:13 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised Look, your troops are like women among you; your land’s city gates are wide open to your enemies. Fire will devour the bars of your gates. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Behold, thy people in the midst of thee are women: the gates of thy land shall be set wide open unto thine enemies: the fire shall devour thy bars. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Behold, your troops in the midst of you are [as weak and helpless as] women; the gates of your land are set wide open to your enemies [without effort]; fire consumes your bars. American Standard Version (1901) Behold, thy people in the midst of thee are women; the gates of thy land are set wide open unto thine enemies: the fire hath devoured thy bars. Common English Bible Look, your people are women in your midst. The gates of your land have been flung wide open to your enemies. Fire consumes the bars of your gates. Catholic Public Domain Version Behold, women are at the center of your people. The gates of your land will be opened wide for your enemies; fire will devour your bars. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Behold thy people in the midst of thee are women: the gates of thy land shall be set wide open to thy enemies, the fire shall devour thy bars. |
On that day Egypt will be like women and will tremble with fear because of the threatening hand of the Lord of Armies when he raises it against them.
A sword is against the diviners, and they will act foolishly. A sword is against her heroic warriors, and they will be terrified.
A sword is against his horses and chariots and against all the foreigners among them, and they will be like women. A sword is against her treasuries, and they will be plundered.
Babylon’s warriors have stopped fighting; they sit in their strongholds. Their might is exhausted; they have become like women. Babylon’s homes have been set ablaze, her gate bars are shattered.
Teman, , your warriors will be terrified so that everyone from the hill country of Esau will be destroyed by slaughter.
Beauty is stripped; she is carried away; her ladies-in-waiting moan like the sound of doves and beat their breasts.
The fire will devour you there; the sword will cut you down. It will devour you like the young locust. Multiply yourselves like the young locust; multiply like the swarming locust!