Nahum 3:13

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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.

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Referenced Verses

  • Jer 51:30 : 30 Babylon's men of war have kept back from the fight, waiting in their strong places; their strength has given way, they have become like women: her houses have been put on fire, her locks are broken.
  • Isa 19:16 : 16 In that day the Egyptians will be like women: and the land will be shaking with fear because of the waving of the Lord's hand stretched out over it.
  • Nah 2:6 : 6 He takes the record of his great men: they go falling on their way; they go quickly to the wall, the cover is made ready.
  • Jer 50:37 : 37 A sword is on all the mixed people in her, and they will become like women: a sword is on her store-houses, and they will be taken by her attackers.
  • Isa 45:1-2 : 1 The Lord says to the man of his selection, to Cyrus, whom I have taken by the right hand, putting down nations before him, and taking away the arms of kings; making the doors open before him, so that the ways into the towns may not be shut; 2 I will go before you, and make the rough places level: the doors of brass will be broken, and the iron rods cut in two:
  • Ps 107:16 : 16 The doors of brass are broken by his arm, and the bands of iron are cut in two.
  • Ps 147:13 : 13 He has made strong the iron bands of your doors; he has sent blessings on your children inside your walls.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Nah 3:14-15
    2 verses
    80%

    14Get water for the time when you are shut in, make strong your towns: go into the potter's earth, stamping it down with your feet, make strong the brickworks.

    15There the fire will make you waste; you will be cut off by the sword: make yourself as great in number as the worms, as great in number as the locusts.

  • Nah 3:11-12
    2 verses
    79%

    11And you will be overcome with wine, you will become feeble; you will be looking for a safe place from those who are fighting against you.

    12All your walled places will be like fig-trees and your people like the first figs, falling at a shake into the mouth which is open for them.

  • Isa 3:25-26
    2 verses
    77%

    25Your men will be put to the sword, and your men of war will come to destruction in the fight.

    26And in the public places of her towns will be sorrow and weeping; and she will be seated on the earth, waste and uncovered.

  • Ezek 26:8-12
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    75%

    8He will put to the sword your daughters in the open country: he will make strong walls against you and put up an earthwork against you, arming himself for war against you.

    9He will put up his engines of war against your walls, and your towers will be broken down by his axes.

    10Because of the number of his horses you will be covered with their dust: your walls will be shaking at the noise of the horsemen and of the wheels and of the war-carriages, when he comes through your doorways, as into a town which has been broken open.

    11Your streets will be stamped down by the feet of his horses: he will put your people to the sword, and will send down the pillars of your strength to the earth.

    12They will take by force all your wealth and go off with the goods with which you do trade: they will have your walls broken down and all the houses of your desire given up to destruction: they will put your stones and your wood and your dust deep in the water.

  • Jer 5:16-17
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    75%

    16Their arrows give certain death, they are all men of war.

    17They will take all the produce of your fields, which would have been food for your sons and your daughters: they will take your flocks and your herds: they will take all your vines and your fig-trees: and with the sword they will make waste your walled towns in which you put your faith.

  • Isa 1:7
    75%

    7Your country has become waste; your towns are burned with fire; as for your land, it is overturned before your eyes, made waste and overcome by men from strange lands.

  • Deut 28:52
    74%

    52Your towns will be shut in by his armies, till your high walls, in which you put your faith, have come down: his armies will be round your towns, through all your land which the Lord your God has given you.

  • Jer 38:22
    74%

    22See, all the rest of the women in the house of the king of Judah will be taken out to the king of Babylon's captains, and these women will say, Your nearest friends have been false to you and have got the better of you: they have made your feet go deep into the wet earth, and they are turned away back from you.

  • Jer 51:30
    74%

    30Babylon's men of war have kept back from the fight, waiting in their strong places; their strength has given way, they have become like women: her houses have been put on fire, her locks are broken.

  • Deut 28:56-57
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    74%

    56The most soft and delicate of your women, who would not so much as put her foot on the earth, so delicate is she, will be hard-hearted to her husband and to her son and to her daughter;

    57And to her baby newly come to birth, and to the children of her body; for having no other food, she will make a meal of them secretly, because of her bitter need and the cruel grip of your haters on all your towns.

  • Amos 4:3
    73%

    3And you will go out through the broken places, every one going straight before her, and you will be sent into Harmon, says the Lord.

  • Isa 60:11
    73%

    11Your doors will be open at all times; they will not be shut day or night; so that men may come into you with the wealth of the nations, with their kings at their head.

  • Mic 2:8-9
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    73%

    8As for you, you have become haters of those who were at peace with you: you take the clothing of those who go by without fear, and make them prisoners of war.

    9The women of my people you have been driving away from their dearly loved children; from their young ones you are taking my glory for ever.

  • Hos 10:14
    73%

    14So a great outcry will go up from among your people, and all your strong places will be broken, as Beth-arbel was broken by Shalman in the day of war, as the mother was broken on the rocks with her children.

  • Amos 3:11
    73%

    11For this reason, says the Lord, an attacker will come, shutting in the land on every side; and your strength will come down and your great houses will be made waste.

  • Zech 14:1-2
    2 verses
    73%

    1See, a day of the Lord is coming when they will make division of your goods taken by force before your eyes.

    2For I will get all the nations together to make war against Jerusalem; and the town will be overcome, and the goods taken from the houses, and the women taken by force: and half the town will go away as prisoners, and the rest of the people will not be cut off from the town.

  • Luke 19:43
    73%

    43For the time will come when your attackers will put a wall round you, and come all round you and keep you in on every side,

  • Lam 2:16
    73%

    16All your haters are opening their mouths wide against you; making hisses and whistling through their teeth, they say, We have made a meal of her: certainly this is the day we have been looking for; it has come, we have seen it.

  • Isa 3:12
    72%

    12As for my people, their ruler is acting like a child, and those who have authority over them are women. O my people, your guides are the cause of your wandering, turning your footsteps out of the right way.

  • Ezek 16:39-41
    3 verses
    72%

    39I will give you into their hands, and your arched room will be overturned and your high places broken down; they will take your clothing off you and take away your fair jewels: and when they have done, you will be uncovered and shamed.

    40And they will get together a meeting against you, stoning you with stones and wounding you with their swords.

    41And they will have you burned with fire, sending punishments on you before the eyes of great numbers of women; and I will put an end to your loose ways, and you will no longer give payment.

  • Isa 49:19
    72%

    19For though the waste places of your land have been given to destruction, now you will not be wide enough for your people, and those who made you waste will be far away.

  • Jer 50:37
    72%

    37A sword is on all the mixed people in her, and they will become like women: a sword is on her store-houses, and they will be taken by her attackers.

  • Isa 24:12
    72%

    12In the town all is waste, and in the public place is destruction.

  • Lam 2:9
    72%

    9Her doors have gone down into the earth; he has sent destruction on her locks: her king and her princes are among the nations where the law is not; even her prophets have had no vision from the Lord.

  • Jer 15:13-14
    2 verses
    71%

    13I will give your wealth and your stores to your attackers, without a price, because of all your sins, even in every part of your land.

    14They will go away with your haters into a land which is strange to you: for my wrath is on fire with a flame which will be burning on you.

  • Isa 13:16
    71%

    16Their young children will be broken up before their eyes; their goods will be taken away, and their wives made the property of others.

  • Jer 6:25
    71%

    25Go not out into the field or by the way; for there is the sword of the attacker, and fear on every side.

  • Jer 13:20
    71%

    20Let your eyes be lifted up (O Jerusalem), and see those who are coming from the north. Where is the flock which was given to you, your beautiful flock?

  • Isa 32:13
    71%

    13And for the land of my people, where thorns will come up; even for all the houses of joy in the glad town.

  • Jer 1:18
    71%

    18For see, this day have I made you a walled town, and an iron pillar, and walls of brass, against all the land, against the kings of Judah, against its captains, against its priests, and against the people of the land.

  • Mic 4:11
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    11And now a number of nations have come together against you, and they say, Let her be made unclean and let our eyes see the fate of Zion.

  • Amos 7:17
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    17So this is what the Lord has said: Your wife will be a loose woman in the town, and your sons and your daughters will be put to the sword, and your land will be cut up into parts by a line; and you yourself will come to your end in an unclean land, and Israel will certainly be taken away a prisoner out of his land.

  • Nah 2:1
    71%

    1See on the mountains the feet of him who comes with good news, giving word of peace! Keep your feasts, O Judah, give effect to your oaths: for the good-for-nothing man will never again go through you; he is completely cut off.

  • Lev 26:38
    71%

    38And death will overtake you among strange nations, and the land of your haters will be your destruction.

  • Ezek 23:25
    71%

    25And my bitter feeling will be working against you, and they will take you in hand with passion; they will take away your nose and your ears, and the rest of you will be put to the sword: they will take your sons and daughters, and the rest of you will be burned up in the fire.

  • Ezek 38:12
    71%

    12To take their property by force and go off with their goods; turning your hand against the waste places which now are peopled, and against the people who have been got together out of the nations, who have got cattle and goods for themselves, who are living in the middle of the earth.