Nahum 3:11-13
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
11 You, too, will drink of this;
you will be overcome;(A)
You, too, will seek
a refuge from the foe.
12 But all your fortresses are fig trees,
bearing early figs;[a]
When shaken, they fall
into the devourer’s mouth.
13 Indeed your troops
are women in your midst;
To your foes are open wide
the gates of your land,
fire has consumed their bars.
Footnotes
- 3:12 Early figs: the refugees from Nineveh who escape to presumably secure fortresses.
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