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13 Look! The troops among you are women in the face of your enemies.[a] The gates of your land will be wide open. Fire will consume the bars of your gates.

14 Draw water to prepare yourselves for a siege! Strengthen your fortifications! Trample the mud and tread the clay! Make mud bricks to strengthen your walls!

15 There the fire will consume you. There the sword will cut you down. It will devour you as a swarm of grasshoppers would, even if you heap up your numbers like swarms of grasshoppers and locusts.

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  1. Nahum 3:13 The last phrase may go with the next line.