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## Nahum 3:16-18 in Context (Verses 13–19 KJV)
 
 [13 ](/kjv/nahum/3/13) Behold, thy people in the midst of thee *are* women: the gates of thy land shall be set wide open unto thine enemies: the fire shall devour thy bars.
 
 [14 ](/kjv/nahum/3/14) Draw thee waters for the siege, fortify thy strong holds: go into clay, and tread the morter, make strong the brickkiln.
 
 [15 ](/kjv/nahum/3/15) There shall the fire devour thee; the sword shall cut thee off, it shall eat thee up like the cankerworm: make thyself many as the cankerworm, make thyself many as the locusts.
 
 [16 ](/kjv/nahum/3/16) Thou hast multiplied thy merchants above the stars of heaven: the cankerworm spoileth, and flieth away.*
 
 [17 ](/kjv/nahum/3/17) Thy crowned *are* as the locusts, and thy captains as the great grasshoppers, which camp in the hedges in the cold day, *but* when the sun ariseth they flee away, and their place is not known where they *are*.
 
 [18 ](/kjv/nahum/3/18) Thy shepherds slumber, O king of Assyria: thy nobles shall dwell *in the dust:* thy people is scattered upon the mountains, and no man gathereth *them*.*
 
 [19 ](/kjv/nahum/3/19) *There is* no healing of thy bruise; thy wound is grievous: all that hear the bruit of thee shall clap the hands over thee: for upon whom hath not thy wickedness passed continually?*
 
[Nahum 2](/kjv/nahum/2) [Habakkuk 1](/kjv/habakkuk/1)

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