Context 13Behold, your people are women in your midst!The gates of your land are opened wide to your enemies; Fire consumes your gate bars. 14Draw for yourself water for the siege! 15There fire will consume you, 16You have increased your traders more than the stars of heaven 17Your guardsmen are like the swarming locust. 18Your shepherds are sleeping, O king of Assyria; 19There is no relief for your breakdown, Parallel Verses American Standard VersionBehold, 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. Douay-Rheims Bible 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. Darby Bible 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. English Revised 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. Webster's Bible Translation 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. Young's 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. Library "Nineveh, that Great City"Among the cities of the ancient world in the days of divided Israel one of the greatest was Nineveh, the capital of the Assyrian realm. Founded on the fertile bank of the Tigris, soon after the dispersion from the tower of Babel, it had flourished through the centuries until it had become "an exceeding great city of three days' journey." Jonah 3:3. In the time of its temporal prosperity Nineveh was a center of crime and wickedness. Inspiration has characterized it as "the bloody city, . . . full … Ellen Gould White—The Story of Prophets and Kings The Tenth Commandment Nahum Links Nahum 3:13 NIV • Nahum 3:13 NLT • Nahum 3:13 ESV • Nahum 3:13 NASB • Nahum 3:13 KJV • Nahum 3:13 Bible Apps • Nahum 3:13 Parallel • Bible Hub |