Behold, your troops are women in your midst. The gates of your land are wide open to your enemies; fire has devoured your bars.
The warriors of Babylon have ceased fighting; they remain in their strongholds; their strength has failed; they have become women; her dwellings are on fire; her bars are broken.
In that day the Egyptians will be like women, and tremble with fear before the hand that the Lord of hosts shakes over them.
The river gates are opened; the palace melts away;
A sword against her horses and against her chariots, and against all the foreign troops in her midst, that they may become women! A sword against all her treasures, that they may be plundered!
Thus says the Lord to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have grasped, to subdue nations before him and to loose the belts of kings, to open doors before him that gates may not be closed: “I will go before you and level the exalted places, I will break in pieces the doors of bronze and cut through the bars of iron,
For he strengthens the bars of your gates; he blesses your children within you.
For he shatters the doors of bronze and cuts in two the bars of iron.
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