Parallel Verses
NET Bible
Your warriors will be like women in your midst; the gates of your land will be wide open to your enemies; fire will consume the bars of your gates.
New American Standard Bible
The gates of your land are
Fire consumes your gate bars.
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.
Holman Bible
the gates of your land
are wide open to your enemies.
Fire will devour the bars of your gates.
International Standard Version
Look at your people they are women! Your borders stand wide open to your enemies, while fire consumes the bars of your gates."
A Conservative Version
Behold, thy people in the midst of thee are women. The gates of thy land are set wide open to thine enemies. The fire has devoured thy 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.
Amplified
Behold, your people are [as weak and helpless as] women in your midst!
The gates of your land are opened wide to your enemies;
Fire consumes the bars across your gates.
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.
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.
Julia Smith Translation
Behold, thy people women in the midst of thee: the gates of thy land being opened were opened to thine enemies: a fire devoured thy bars.
King James 2000
Behold, your troops in the midst of you are women: the gates of your land shall be set wide open unto your enemies: the fire shall devour the bars of your gates.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Look! Your troops [are like] women in your midst. The gates of your land are wide open to your enemies; fire will consume the bars [of your gates].
Modern King James verseion
Behold, your people in your midst are women. The gates of your land shall surely be opened to your enemies; the fire shall devour your bars.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Behold, thy people within thee are but women: the ports of thy land shall be open unto thine enemies, and the fire shall devour thy bars.
New Heart 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.
The Emphasized Bible
Lo! thy people, are women, in thy midst, to thy foes, have been set wide open the gates of thy and, - a fire, hath devoured, thy bars.
Webster
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.
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.
Youngs 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.
Themes
Effeminacy » General references to
Nineveh » Predictions respecting » Feebleness of its people
Topics
Interlinear
'erets
Pathach
Pathach
Word Count of 20 Translations in Nahum 3:13
Verse Info
Context Readings
Nineveh's Defenses Will Fail
12 All your fortifications will be like fig trees with first-ripe fruit: If they are shaken, their figs will fall into the mouth of the eater! 13 Your warriors will be like women in your midst; the gates of your land will be wide open to your enemies; fire will consume the bars of your gates. 14 Draw yourselves water for a siege! Strengthen your fortifications! Trample the mud and tread the clay! Make mud bricks to strengthen your walls!
Cross References
Jeremiah 51:30
The soldiers of Babylonia will stop fighting. They will remain in their fortified cities. They will lose their strength to do battle. They will be as frightened as women. The houses in her cities will be set on fire. The gates of her cities will be broken down.
Isaiah 19:16
At that time the Egyptians will be like women. They will tremble and fear because the Lord who commands armies brandishes his fist against them.
Jeremiah 50:37
Destructive forces will come against her horses and her chariots. Destructive forces will come against all the foreign troops within her; they will be as frightened as women! Destructive forces will come against her treasures; they will be taken away as plunder!
Nahum 2:6
The sluice gates are opened; the royal palace is deluged and dissolves.
Isaiah 45:1-2
This is what the Lord says to his chosen one, to Cyrus, whose right hand I hold in order to subdue nations before him, and disarm kings, to open doors before him, so gates remain unclosed:
Psalm 107:16
For he shattered the bronze gates, and hacked through the iron bars.
Psalm 147:13
For he makes the bars of your gates strong. He blesses your children within you.