KJV 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.
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Nahum 3:13
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.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
Look at your troops—they are like your women! The gates of your land are wide open to your enemies; fire consumes their bars.
WEB World English Bible
Behold, your troops in your midst are women. The gates of your land are set wide open to your enemies. The fire has devoured your bars.
ASV 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.
YLT 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.
Surrounding context — Nahum 3
10 Yet [was] she carried away, she went into captivity: her young children also were dashed in pieces at the top of all the streets: and they cast lots for her honourable men, and all her great men were bound in chains.
11 Thou also shalt be drunken: thou shalt be hid, thou also shalt seek strength because of the enemy.
12 All thy strong holds [shall be like] fig trees with the firstripe figs: if they be shaken, they shall even fall into the mouth of the eater.
13 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.
14 Draw thee waters for the siege, fortify thy strong holds: go into clay, and tread the morter, make strong the brickkiln.
15 There shall the fire devour thee; the sword shall cut thee off, it shall eat thee up like the cankerworm: make thyself many as the cankerworm, make thyself many as the locusts.
16 Thou hast multiplied thy merchants above the stars of heaven: the cankerworm spoileth, and flieth away.
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These Hebrew/Greek tokens are linked by Strong's number. Click one for its lexicon definition and other occurrences.
הִנֵּ֨הH2009 · hin.nehbeholdעַמֵּ֤ךְH5971 · ampeopleנָשִׁים֙H802 · ish.shahwomanבְּקִרְבֵּ֔ךְH7130 · qe.reventrails: amongלְאֹ֣יְבַ֔יִךְH341 · o.yevenemyפָּת֥וֹחַH6605 · pa.tachto openנִפְתְּח֖וּH6605 · pa.tachto openשַׁעֲרֵ֣יH8179 · sha.argateאַרְצֵ֑ךְH776 · e.retsland: country/planetאָכְלָ֥הH398 · a.khalto eatאֵ֖שׁH784 · eshfireבְּרִיחָֽיִך׃H1280 · be.ri.achbar
Cross-references
Jeremiah 51:30The mighty men of Babylon have forborn to fight, they have remained in [their] holds: their might hath failed; they became as women: they have burned her dwellingplaces; her bars are broken.Jeremiah 50:37A sword [is] upon their horses, and upon their chariots, and upon all the mingled people that [are] in the midst of her; and they shall become as women: a sword [is] upon her treasures; and they shall be robbed.Isaiah 19:16In that day shall Egypt be like unto women: and it shall be afraid and fear because of the shaking of the hand of the LORD of hosts, which he shaketh over it.Nahum 2:6The gates of the rivers shall be opened, and the palace shall be dissolved.Isaiah 45:1-2Thus saith the LORD to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have holden, to subdue nations before him; and I will loose the loins of kings, to open before him the two leaved gates; and the gates shall not be shut;Psalm 147:13For he hath strengthened the bars of thy gates; he hath blessed thy children within thee.Psalm 107:16For he hath broken the gates of brass, and cut the bars of iron in sunder.
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