Nahum 3:12-15 - Nineveh's Defenses Will Fail

12 All your fortresses are like fig trees with first-ripe figs-- if shaken they fall into the mouth of the eater.

13 Behold, your troops are women in your midst. The gates of your land are wide open to your enemies; fire has devoured your bars.

14 Draw water for the siege; strengthen your forts; go into the clay; tread the mortar; take hold of the brick mold! 15 There will the fire devour you; the sword will cut you off. It will devour you like the locust. Multiply yourselves like the locust; multiply like the grasshopper!


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