13Behold, your people in the middle of you are women: the gates of your land shall be set wide open to your enemies: the fire shall devour your bars.


In Context

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 honorable men, and all her great men were bound in chains.

11 You also shall be drunken: you shall be hid, you also shall seek strength because of the enemy.

12 All your strong holds shall be like fig trees with the first ripe figs: if they be shaken, they shall even fall into the mouth of the eater.

13 Behold, your people in the middle of you are women: the gates of your land shall be set wide open to your enemies: the fire shall devour your bars.

14 Draw you waters for the siege, fortify your strong holds: go into clay, and tread the mortar, make strong the brick kiln.

15 There shall the fire devour you; the sword shall cut you off, it shall eat you up like the cankerworm: make yourself many as the cankerworm, make yourself many as the locusts.

Nahum 3:13 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

3:13Behold, 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.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

3:13Look at your troops- they are all women! The gates of your land are wide open to your enemies; fire has consumed their bars.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

3:13Behold, 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.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

3:13Behold 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.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

3:13Behold, 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.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

3:13Behold, 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.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

3:13Behold, 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.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

3:13Behold, 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.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

3:13Lo, thy people are women in thy midst, To thine enemies thoroughly opened Have been the gates of thy land, Consumed hath fire thy bars.