Nahum 3:15-17

New King James Version

¹⁵There the fire will devour you,
The sword will cut you off;
It will eat you up like a ^(A)locust.

Make yourself many—like the locust!
Make yourself many—like the swarming locusts!
¹⁶You have multiplied your ^(B)merchants more than the stars of heaven.
The locust plunders and flies away.
¹⁷^(C)Your commanders are like swarming locusts,
And your generals like great grasshoppers,
Which camp in the hedges on a cold day;
When the sun rises they flee away,
And the place where they are is not known.

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Nahum 3:15-17

English Standard Version

¹⁵There will the fire devour you;
    the sword will cut you off.
    It will ^(A)devour you ^(B)like the locust.
Multiply yourselves ^(C)like the locust;
    multiply ^(D)like the grasshopper!
¹⁶You increased ^(E)your merchants
    more than the stars of the heavens.
    ^(F)The locust spreads its wings and flies away.

¹⁷Your ^(G)princes^[a] are ^(H)like grasshoppers,
    ^(I)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

Nahum 3:17 Or guards
Nahum 3:17 Or marshals

Nahum 3:15-17

New International Version

¹⁵There the fire^(A) will consume you;
    the sword^(B) will cut you down—
    they will devour you like a swarm of locusts.
Multiply like grasshoppers,
    multiply like locusts!^(C)
¹⁶You have increased the number of your merchants
    till they are more numerous than the stars in the sky,
but like locusts^(D) they strip the land
    and then fly away.
¹⁷Your guards are like locusts,^(E)
    your officials like swarms of locusts
    that settle in the walls on a cold day—
but when the sun appears they fly away,
    and no one knows where.