Nahum 3:13 “Look at your troops— they are like your women! The gates of your land…”

Nahum 3:13

Look at your troops— they are like your women! The gates of your land are wide open to your enemies; fire consumes their bars.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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.

World English Bible

Behold, your troops among you are women. The gates of your land are set wide open to your enemies. The fire has devoured your bars.

American Standard Version

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.

Geneva Bible 1599

Beholde, thy people within thee are women: the gates of thy land shalbe opened vnto thine enemies, and ye fire shall deuoure thy barres.

Darby Translation

Behold, thy people in the midst of thee are [as] women: the gates of thy land are set wide open unto thine enemies; the fire devoureth thy bars.

Young's Literal Translation

Lo, thy people [are] women in thy midst, To thine enemies thoroughly opened Have been the gates of thy land, Consumed hath fire thy bars.

Bible in Basic English

See, the people who are in you are women; the doorways of your land are wide open to your attackers: the locks of your doors have been burned away in the fire.

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Cross references

“thy people”

Jeremiah 51:30 Isaiah 19:16 Jeremiah 50:37

Jeremiah 51:30 · BSB

The warriors of Babylon have stopped fighting; they sit in their strongholds. Their strength is exhausted; they have become like women. Babylon’s homes have been set ablaze, the bars of her gates are broken.

Isaiah 19:16 · BSB

In that day the Egyptians will be like women. They will tremble with fear beneath the uplifted hand of the LORD of Hosts, when He brandishes it against them.

Jeremiah 50:37 · BSB

A sword is against her horses and chariots and against all the foreigners in her midst, and they will become like women. A sword is against her treasuries, and they will be plundered.

“the gates”

Nahum 2:6 Psalm 107:16 Isaiah 45:1 Isaiah 45:2

Nahum 2:6 · BSB

The river gates are thrown open and the palace collapses.

Psalm 107:16 · BSB

For He has broken down the gates of bronze and cut through the bars of iron.

Isaiah 45:1 · BSB

This is what the LORD says to Cyrus His anointed, whose right hand I have grasped to subdue nations before him, to disarm kings, to open the doors before him, so that the gates will not be shut:

Isaiah 45:2 · BSB

“I will go before you and level the mountains; I will break down the gates of bronze and cut through the bars of iron.

“thy bars”

Psalm 147:13

Psalm 147:13 · BSB

For He strengthens the bars of your gates and blesses the children within you.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

12All your fortresses are fig trees with the first ripe figs; when shaken, they fall into the mouth of the eater!

14Draw your water for the siege; strengthen your fortresses. Work the clay and tread the mortar; repair the brick kiln!

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