Nahum 3:15-17
Revised Standard Version
15 There will the fire devour you,
the sword will cut you off.
It will devour you like the locust.
Multiply yourselves like the locust,
multiply like the grasshopper!
16 You increased your merchants
more than the stars of the heavens.
The locust spreads its wings and flies away.
17 Your princes are like grasshoppers,
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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- Nahum 3:17 Or marshals
Nahum 3:15-17
American Standard Version
15 There shall the fire devour thee; the sword shall cut thee off; it shall devour thee like the canker-worm: make thyself many as the canker-worm; make thyself many as the locust. 16 Thou hast multiplied thy merchants above the stars of heaven: the canker-worm [a]ravageth, and fleeth away. 17 Thy princes are as the locusts, and thy [b]marshals as the swarms of grasshoppers, which encamp in the [c]hedges in the cold day, but when the sun ariseth they flee away, and their place is not known where they are.
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- Nahum 3:16 Or, spreadeth himself
- Nahum 3:17 Or, scribes
- Nahum 3:17 Or, walls
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