Nahum 3:13

KJV1611 – Modern English

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

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  • Jer 51:30 : 30 The mighty men of Babylon have ceased to fight, they have remained in their strongholds; their might has failed; they became like women; they have burned her dwelling places; her bars are broken.
  • Isa 19:16 : 16 In that day Egypt shall be like women, and it shall be afraid and fear because of the shaking of the hand of the LORD of hosts, which He shakes over it.
  • Nah 2:6 : 6 The gates of the rivers shall be opened, and the palace shall be dissolved.
  • Jer 50:37 : 37 A sword is upon their horses, and upon their chariots, and upon all the mixed people that are in the midst of her; and they shall become like women: a sword is upon her treasures; and they shall be robbed.
  • Isa 45:1-2 : 1 Thus says the LORD to His anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have held, to subdue nations before him; and I will loose the loins of kings, to open before him the double doors; and the gates shall not be shut. 2 I will go before you, and make the crooked places straight: I will break in pieces the gates of bronze, and cut through the bars of iron.
  • Ps 107:16 : 16 For he has broken the gates of bronze, and cut the bars of iron apart.
  • Ps 147:13 : 13 For he has strengthened the bars of your gates; he has blessed your children within you.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Nah 3:14-15
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    80%

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

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

  • Nah 3:11-12
    2 verses
    79%

    11You also shall be drunk: you shall be hidden, you also shall seek strength because of the enemy.

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

  • Isa 3:25-26
    2 verses
    77%

    25Your men shall fall by the sword, and your mighty in battle.

    26And her gates shall lament and mourn, and she being desolate shall sit on the ground.

  • Ezek 26:8-12
    5 verses
    75%

    8He shall slay with the sword your daughters in the field; and he shall build a fort against you, and cast a mound against you, and lift up a shield against you.

    9And he shall set up engines of war against your walls, and with his axes he shall break down your towers.

    10Because of the abundance of his horses, their dust shall cover you; your walls shall shake at the noise of the horsemen, and of the wheels, and of the chariots, when he enters into your gates, as men enter a city that has been breached.

    11With the hooves of his horses he shall tread down all your streets; he shall slay your people by the sword, and your strong garrisons shall fall to the ground.

    12And they shall make a spoil of your riches, and make a prey of your merchandise; and they shall break down your walls, and destroy your pleasant houses; and they shall lay your stones and your timber and your dust in the midst of the water.

  • Jer 5:16-17
    2 verses
    75%

    16Their quiver is like an open sepulchre, they are all mighty men.

    17And they shall eat up your harvest, and your bread, which your sons and your daughters should eat: they shall eat up your flocks and your herds: they shall eat up your vines and your fig trees: they shall impoverish your fortified cities, wherein you trusted, with the sword.

  • Isa 1:7
    75%

    7Your country is desolate, your cities are burned with fire: your land, strangers devour it in your presence, and it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers.

  • Deut 28:52
    74%

    52And he shall besiege you in all your gates, until your high and fortified walls come down, in which you trusted, throughout all your land: and he shall besiege you in all your gates throughout all your land, which the LORD your God has given you.

  • Jer 38:22
    74%

    22And, behold, all the women who are left in the king of Judah's house shall be brought forth to the king of Babylon's princes, and those women shall say, Your friends have set you on and have prevailed against you; your feet are sunk in the mire, and they have turned away back.

  • Jer 51:30
    74%

    30The mighty men of Babylon have ceased to fight, they have remained in their strongholds; their might has failed; they became like women; they have burned her dwelling places; her bars are broken.

  • Deut 28:56-57
    2 verses
    74%

    56The tender and delicate woman among you, who would not venture to set the sole of her foot upon the ground for delicateness and tenderness, her eye shall be evil toward the husband of her bosom, and toward her son, and toward her daughter,

    57And toward her young one that comes out from between her feet, and toward her children who she shall bear: for she shall eat them for want of all things secretly in the siege and distress, with which your enemy shall distress you in your gates.

  • Amos 4:3
    73%

    3And you shall go out at the breaches, each cow straight ahead, and you shall cast them into the palace, says the LORD.

  • Isa 60:11
    73%

    11Therefore your gates shall be open continually; they shall not be shut day or night, that men may bring to you the wealth of the Gentiles, and that their kings may be brought.

  • Mic 2:8-9
    2 verses
    73%

    8Even of late my people has risen up as an enemy: you pull off the robe with the garment from those who pass by securely as men averse from war.

    9The women of my people you have cast out from their pleasant houses; from their children you have taken away my glory forever.

  • Hos 10:14
    73%

    14Therefore a tumult shall arise among your people, and all your fortresses shall be plundered, as Shalman plundered Beth-arbel in the day of battle: the mother was dashed in pieces on her children.

  • Amos 3:11
    73%

    11Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: An adversary shall be all around the land; he shall bring down your strength from you, and your palaces shall be plundered.

  • Zech 14:1-2
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    73%

    1Behold, the day of the LORD comes, and your spoil shall be divided in the midst of you.

    2For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall be taken, and the houses plundered, and the women violated; and half of the city shall go forth into captivity, and the rest of the people shall not be cut off from the city.

  • Luke 19:43
    73%

    43For the days shall come upon you, when your enemies will build an embankment around you and surround you and enclose you on every side,

  • Lam 2:16
    73%

    16All your enemies have opened their mouth against you: they hiss and gnash the teeth: they say, We have swallowed her up: certainly, this is the day we looked for; we have found, we have seen it.

  • Isa 3:12
    72%

    12As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, those who lead you cause you to err, and destroy the way of your paths.

  • Ezek 16:39-41
    3 verses
    72%

    39And I will also give you into their hand, and they shall throw down your eminent place, and shall break down your high places; they shall strip you also of your clothes, and shall take your beautiful jewels, and leave you naked and bare.

    40They shall also bring up an assembly against you, and they shall stone you with stones, and thrust you through with their swords.

    41And they shall burn your houses with fire, and execute judgments upon you in the sight of many women; and I will cause you to cease from playing the harlot, and you also shall give no remuneration any more.

  • Isa 49:19
    72%

    19For your waste and your desolate places, and the land of your destruction, shall now be too narrow by reason of the inhabitants, and those who swallowed you up shall be far away.

  • Jer 50:37
    72%

    37A sword is upon their horses, and upon their chariots, and upon all the mixed people that are in the midst of her; and they shall become like women: a sword is upon her treasures; and they shall be robbed.

  • Isa 24:12
    72%

    12In the city is left desolation, and the gate is struck with destruction.

  • Lam 2:9
    72%

    9Her gates have sunk into the ground; He has destroyed and broken her bars: her king and her princes are among the Gentiles: the law is no more; her prophets also find no vision from the Lord.

  • Jer 15:13-14
    2 verses
    71%

    13Your substance and your treasures I will give to the spoil without price, and that for all your sins, even in all your borders.

    14And I will make you to pass with your enemies into a land you do not know: for a fire is kindled in my anger, which shall burn upon you.

  • Isa 13:16
    71%

    16Their children also will be dashed to pieces before their eyes; their houses will be plundered, and their wives ravished.

  • Jer 6:25
    71%

    25Do not go forth into the field, nor walk by the way; for the sword of the enemy and fear is on every side.

  • Jer 13:20
    71%

    20Lift up your eyes, and behold those who come from the north: where is the flock that was given to you, your beautiful flock?

  • Isa 32:13
    71%

    13Upon the land of my people shall come up thorns and briers; yes, upon all the houses of joy in the joyous city:

  • Jer 1:18
    71%

    18For behold, I have made you this day a fortified city, and an iron pillar, and bronze walls against the whole land, against the kings of Judah, against its princes, against its priests, and against the people of the land.

  • Mic 4:11
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    11Now also are many nations gathered against you, that say, 'Let her be defiled, and let our eyes gaze upon Zion.'

  • Amos 7:17
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    17Therefore thus says the LORD; Your wife shall be a harlot in the city, and your sons and your daughters shall fall by the sword, and your land shall be divided by line; and you shall die in a polluted land: and Israel shall surely go into captivity from his land.

  • Nah 2:1
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    1The one who dashes in pieces is coming up before you: keep the fortress, watch the road, make your loins strong, fortify your power mightily.

  • Lev 26:38
    71%

    38And you shall perish among the nations, and the land of your enemies shall eat you up.

  • Ezek 23:25
    71%

    25And I will set my jealousy against you, and they shall deal furiously with you: they shall take away your nose and your ears; and your remnant shall fall by the sword: they shall take your sons and your daughters; and your residue shall be devoured by the fire.

  • Ezek 38:12
    71%

    12To take a spoil, and to take a prey; to turn your hand upon the desolate places that are now inhabited, and upon the people that are gathered out of the nations, who have acquired cattle and goods, who dwell in the midst of the land.