Nahum 3:13

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Look, your people are like women within you. The gates of your land are wide open to your enemies, and fire has consumed your bars.

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  • Jer 51:30 : 30 The warriors of Babylon have stopped fighting; they remain in their strongholds. Their strength has failed; they have become like women. Her dwellings are set on fire; the bars of her gates are broken.
  • Isa 19:16 : 16 In that day, the Egyptians will be like women and will tremble with fear before the uplifted hand of the LORD of Hosts, which He raises against them.
  • Nah 2:6 : 6 He summons his elite warriors, but they stumble on their way. They rush to the wall, and the siege device is prepared.
  • Jer 50:37 : 37 A sword is against her horses and her chariots, and against all the mixed multitude in her midst. They will become like women. A sword is against her treasures, and they will be plundered.
  • Isa 45:1-2 : 1 This is what the LORD says to His anointed one, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have strengthened to subdue nations before him and to strip kings of their armor, to open doors before him so that gates will not be shut. 2 I will go before you and level the mountains; I will break down the gates of bronze and cut through the bars of iron.
  • Ps 107:16 : 16 For He has broken down the gates of bronze and cut through the bars of iron.
  • Ps 147:13 : 13 For He strengthens the bars of your gates; He blesses your children within you.

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  • Nah 3:14-15
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    80%

    14Draw water for the siege, strengthen your fortresses. Go into the clay and tread the mortar; take hold of the brick mold.

    15There the fire will devour you; the sword will cut you down. It will consume you like the young locusts. Multiply yourselves like locusts; increase yourselves like swarming locusts.

  • Nah 3:11-12
    2 verses
    79%

    11You too will become drunk; you will go into hiding. You too will seek refuge from the enemy.

    12All your fortresses are like fig trees with the first ripe fruit; when they are shaken, they fall into the mouth of the eater.

  • Isa 3:25-26
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    77%

    25Your men will fall by the sword, and your warriors in battle.

    26The city gates will lament and mourn; destitute, she will sit on the ground.

  • Ezek 26:8-12
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    75%

    8'Your villages in the countryside will be killed by the sword, and he will build siege walls against you, raise a siege ramp against you, and set up a shield wall against you.'

    9'He will direct the blows of his battering rams against your walls, and he will demolish your towers with his weapons.'

    10'The dust from his many horses will cover you. The noise of the horsemen, the wheels, and the chariots will make your walls shake when he enters your gates like warriors entering a breached city.'

    11'With the hooves of his horses, he will trample all your streets. He will kill your people with the sword, and your mighty pillars will collapse to the ground.'

    12'They will plunder your wealth and loot your merchandise. They will break down your walls and destroy your luxurious homes. They will throw your stones, timber, and rubble into the sea.'

  • Jer 5:16-17
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    75%

    16Their quiver is like an open grave; all of them are mighty warriors.

    17They will consume your harvest and your bread, devour your sons and daughters, eat your flocks and herds, and consume your vines and fig trees. With the sword, they will destroy your fortified cities in which you trust.

  • Isa 1:7
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    7Your land is desolate, your cities are burned with fire; in your presence, foreigners devour your fields. It is desolate, as if overthrown by strangers.

  • Deut 28:52
    74%

    52They will lay siege to all the cities throughout your land until your high fortified walls, in which you trusted, come down. They will besiege all the cities in the land the LORD your God has given you.

  • Jer 38:22
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    22"All the women who are left in the palace of the king of Judah will be brought out to the officials of the king of Babylon. They will say to you: ‘Your trusted friends have misled you and have overcome you. Your feet are sunk in the mud, and they have turned away and left you.’

  • Jer 51:30
    74%

    30The warriors of Babylon have stopped fighting; they remain in their strongholds. Their strength has failed; they have become like women. Her dwellings are set on fire; the bars of her gates are broken.

  • Deut 28:56-57
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    74%

    56The most tender and delicate woman among you, so refined that she would not venture to set the sole of her foot on the ground, will begrudge the husband she loves, her son, and her daughter.

    57She will secretly eat her afterbirth and the children she bears during the siege and suffering that your enemy inflicts upon your cities, because she is in dire need of food.

  • Amos 4:3
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    3You will go out through breaches in the wall, each woman straight ahead, and you will be cast out toward Harmon,' declares the LORD.

  • Isa 60:11
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    11Your gates will always be open; they will never be shut, day or night, so that the wealth of the nations may be brought to you, and their kings led in procession.

  • Mic 2:8-9
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    8But lately, my people have risen up like an enemy. You strip off the garments of those who pass by trustingly, returning from war.

    9You drive the women of my people out of their pleasant homes. You take away my splendor from their children forever.

  • Hos 10:14
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    14the roar of battle will rise against your people, and all your fortresses will be devastated—as Shalman destroyed Beth Arbel on the day of battle, when mothers were dashed to pieces with their children.

  • Amos 3:11
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    11Therefore, this is what the Lord God says: "An enemy will surround the land, bring down your strength, and plunder your fortresses."

  • Zech 14:1-2
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    1Behold, a day is coming for the Lord, when your plunder will be divided in your midst.

    2For I will gather all the nations against Jerusalem for battle, and the city will be captured, the houses will be plundered, and the women violated. Half of the city will go into exile, but the rest of the people will not be cut off from the city.

  • Luke 19:43
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    43For the days will come upon you when your enemies will build a barricade against you, surround you, and hem you in on every side.

  • Lam 2:16
    73%

    16All your enemies open their mouths against you; they hiss and grind their teeth, saying, 'We have swallowed her up. Surely this is the day we hoped for; we have found it, we have seen it.'

  • Isa 3:12
    72%

    12My people! Children oppress you, and women rule over you. Your guides mislead you and destroy the way of your paths.

  • Ezek 16:39-41
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    72%

    39I will deliver you into their hands, and they will tear down your mounds and demolish your high places. They will strip you of your clothes, take your fine jewelry, and leave you naked and bare.

    40They will bring a crowd against you, stone you to death, and cut you to pieces with their swords.

    41They will burn down your houses and execute judgment on you in the sight of many women. I will bring an end to your prostitution, and you will no longer pay fees to anyone.

  • Isa 49:19
    72%

    19Your ruins, desolate places, and devastated land will now be too small for your inhabitants, and those who devoured you will be far away.

  • Jer 50:37
    72%

    37A sword is against her horses and her chariots, and against all the mixed multitude in her midst. They will become like women. A sword is against her treasures, and they will be plundered.

  • Isa 24:12
    72%

    12Only desolation is left in the city; the gate is battered into ruins.

  • Lam 2:9
    72%

    9Her gates have sunk into the ground; he has destroyed and broken her bars. Her king and princes are among the nations, and there is no law. Even her prophets receive no vision from the LORD.

  • Jer 15:13-14
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    71%

    13Your wealth and your treasures I will give as plunder, without price, because of all your sins throughout your territory.

    14I will make your enemies pass into a land you do not know, for a fire is kindled in My anger, and it will burn against you.

  • Isa 13:16
    71%

    16Their infants will be dashed to pieces before their eyes; their houses will be plundered, and their wives will be violated.

  • Jer 6:25
    71%

    25Do not go out into the fields or walk on the roads, for the enemy has a sword; there is terror on every side.

  • Jer 13:20
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    20Lift up your eyes and see those coming from the north. Where is the flock that was given to you—the sheep of your glorious care?

  • Isa 32:13
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    13The land of my people will be covered with thorns and briers, indeed over all the joyful houses in the jubilant city.

  • Jer 1:18
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    18Today I have made you a fortified city, an iron pillar, and bronze walls to stand against the whole land—against the kings of Judah, its officials, its priests, and the people of the land.

  • Mic 4:11
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    11But now many nations are gathered against you, saying, 'Let her be defiled, and let our eyes gloat over Zion.'

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    17Therefore, this is what the Lord says: 'Your wife will become a prostitute in the city, your sons and daughters will fall by the sword, your land will be divided up with a measuring line, and you yourself will die in a polluted land. Israel will surely go into exile away from their homeland.'

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    1See, on the mountains, the feet of the one who brings good news, who proclaims peace! Celebrate your festivals, Judah, and fulfill your vows, for the wicked one will never again pass through you; he is completely cut off.

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    25I will direct my jealous fury against you, and they will deal with you in anger. They will cut off your nose and ears, and your survivors will fall by the sword. They will take your sons and daughters, and those who remain will be consumed by fire.

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    12You will come to seize spoil and carry off plunder, to turn your hand against resettled ruins and against a people gathered from the nations, people acquiring livestock and goods, who live at the center of the land.