17 Your (A)princes are (B)like grasshoppers,
    (C)your scribes[a] 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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  1. Nahum 3:17 Or marshals

17 Your guards are like locusts,(A)
    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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(A)In appearance the locusts were like horses prepared for battle: (B)on their heads were what looked like crowns of gold; their faces were (C)like human faces,

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The locusts looked like horses prepared for battle.(A) On their heads they wore something like crowns of gold, and their faces resembled human faces.(B)

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27 (A)“Set up a standard on the earth;
    (B)blow the trumpet among the nations;
(C)prepare (D)the nations for war against her;
    summon against her (E)the kingdoms,
    (F)Ararat, Minni, and (G)Ashkenaz;
appoint a (H)marshal against her;
    (I)bring up horses like bristling locusts.

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27 “Lift up a banner(A) in the land!
    Blow the trumpet among the nations!
Prepare the nations for battle against her;
    summon against her these kingdoms:(B)
    Ararat,(C) Minni and Ashkenaz.(D)
Appoint a commander against her;
    send up horses like a swarm of locusts.(E)

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