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Nahum 3:15-17
Christian Standard Bible
Nahum 3:15-17
Christian Standard Bible
15 The fire will devour you there;
the sword will cut you down.
It will devour you like the young locust.(A)
Multiply yourselves like the young locust;
multiply like the swarming locust!
16 You have made your merchants(B)
more numerous than the stars of the sky.
The young locust strips[a] the land
and flies away.
17 Your court officials are like the swarming locust,
and your scribes like clouds of locusts,
which settle on the walls on a cold day;
when the sun rises, they take off,
and no one knows where they are.
Footnotes
- 3:16 Or sheds its skin
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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