Nahum 3:14
“(Verse 13 onwards) Behold, your people, women in your midst: the gates of your land will be opened wide to your enemies: fire will devour your bars. Draw water for the siege: build your fortifications, go into the mud, and trample: force the brick. There the fire will consume you; you will perish by the sword, you wil…”
Source: Septuagint
14Draw thee water for a siege, and well secure thy strongholds: enter into the clay, and be thou trodden in the chaff, make the fortifications stronger than brick.
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12All thy strongholds are as fig trees having watchers: if they be shaken, they shall fall into the mouth of the eater.
13Behold, thy people within thee are as women: the gates of thy land shall surely be opened to thine enemies: the fire shall devour thy bars.
— Nahum 3:14 —
15There the fire shall devour thee; the sword shall utterly destroy thee, it shall devour thee as the locust, and thou shalt be pressed down as a palmerworm.
16Thou hast multiplied thy merchandise beyond the stars of heaven: the palmerworm has attacked it, and has flown away.