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12 All your fortifications will be fig trees with firstfruits—
    when shaken, they will fall, into an eater’s mouth.
13 See, your people within you are women[a].
The gates of your land are wide open to your enemies—
fire has devoured your gate-bars.
14 Draw water for a siege.
Strengthen your fortifications!
Go into the mud and tread mortar.
Take hold of the brick mold.

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Footnotes

  1. Nahum 3:13 i.e., incapable of getting the better of armed adversaries.