Nahum 3:13

Look at your soldiers! They will be as weak/helpless as [MET] women! The gates of your city will be opened wide to allow your enemies to enter them, and then the bars of those gates will be burned.

Translation for Translators

In The 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.

In Context

12Your enemies will cause the walls around your city to fall down like [SIM] the first figs that fall from fig trees each year. Your city will be captured easily, like [MET] figs that fall into the mouths [HYP] of those who shake the fig trees.

14Store up water now to use when your enemies surround the city! Repair the forts! Dig up clay and trample it to make it soft, and put it into molds to make bricks to repair the walls!

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Cross References

Isaiah 19:16At that time, the people of Egypt will be as helpless as [SIM] women. They will tremble, being terrified because they know that the Commander of the armies of angels has raised his fist, ready to strike/punish them.

Isaiah 45:2This is what Yahweh says to him: “Cyrus, I will go ahead of you and level the mountains. I will smash down bronze gates and cut through iron bars.

Jeremiah 51:30When their enemies attack, the strongest warriors in Babylon will not fight. They will remain in their barracks, without any strength. They will be as timid/weak as [SIM] women. The enemy soldiers will burn the buildings in the city and pull down the bars of the city gates.

Nahum 2:6But, the gates of the dams on the rivers will be thrown open by enemy soldiers, and the flood will cause the palace to collapse.

Matthew Henry on Nahum 3:9-19

The Judgment of Nineveh. ( b. c. 710.) 8 Art thou better than populous No, that was situate among the rivers, that had the waters round about it, whose rampart was the sea, and her wall was from the sea? 9 Ethiopia and Egypt were her strength, and it was infinite; Put and Lubim were thy helpers. 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… Read the whole commentary →

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