16 You increased (A)your merchants
    more than the stars of the heavens.
    (B)The locust spreads its wings and flies away.

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17 Your (A)princes[a] are (B)like grasshoppers,
    (C)your scribes[b] like clouds of locusts
settling on the fences
    in a day of cold—
when the sun rises, they fly away;
    no one knows where they are.

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Footnotes

  1. Nahum 3:17 Or guards
  2. Nahum 3:17 Or marshals

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