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16 You have increased your (A)traders more than the stars of heaven—
The creeping locust [a]strips and flies away.
17 Your [b](B)guardsmen are like the swarming locust.
Your (C)marshals are like a locust-swarm
Encamping in the stone walls on a cold day.
The sun rises, and they flee,
And the place where they are is not known.
18 Your shepherds are (D)sleeping, O (E)king of Assyria;
Your (F)mighty ones are [c]lying down.
Your people are (G)scattered on the mountains,
And there is no one to regather them.

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Footnotes

  1. Nahum 3:16 Strips vegetation; or molts
  2. Nahum 3:17 Or officials
  3. Nahum 3:18 Lit dwelling