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Nahum 3:15-17
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
Nahum 3:15-17
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
15 There the fire will devour you;
the sword will cut you off.
It will devour you like the locust.
Multiply yourselves like the locust;
multiply like the grasshopper!(A)
16 You increased your merchants
more than the stars of the heavens.
The locust sheds its skin and flies away.
17 Your guards are like grasshoppers,
your scribes like swarms[a] of locusts
settling on the fences
on a cold day—
when the sun rises, they fly away;
no one knows where they have gone.
Footnotes
- 3.17 Meaning of Heb uncertain
Nahum 3:15-17
Evangelical Heritage Version
Nahum 3:15-17
Evangelical Heritage Version
15 There the fire will consume you. There the sword will cut you down. It will devour you as a swarm of grasshoppers would, even if you heap up your numbers like swarms of grasshoppers and locusts. 16 You have increased your merchants so that they are more than the stars of heaven! But they are like grasshoppers, which spread out and fly away. 17 Your courtiers are like locusts. Your field marshals are like swarming locusts! They camp in the walls on a cold day. Yet when the sun rises, they fly away, and no one knows where they are.
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Nahum 3:15-17
New International Version
Nahum 3:15-17
New International Version
15 There 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)
16 You 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.
17 Your 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.
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