(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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I considered the horns, and behold, (A)there came up among them another horn, a little one, (B)before which three of the first horns were plucked up by the roots. And behold, in this horn were eyes like the eyes of a man, and (C)a mouth speaking great things.

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“While I was thinking about the horns, there before me was another horn, a little(A) one, which came up among them; and three of the first horns were uprooted before it. This horn had eyes like the eyes of a human being(B) and a mouth that spoke boastfully.(C)

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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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Footnotes

  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)Their appearance is like the appearance of horses,
    and like war horses they run.
(B)As with the rumbling of chariots,
    they leap on the tops of the mountains,
like the crackling of (C)a flame of fire
    devouring the stubble,
(D)like a powerful army
    drawn up for battle.

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They have the appearance of horses;(A)
    they gallop along like cavalry.
With a noise like that of chariots(B)
    they leap over the mountaintops,
like a crackling fire(C) consuming stubble,
    like a mighty army drawn up for battle.

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The first was like a lion and had eagles' wings. Then as I looked its wings were plucked off, and it was lifted up from the ground and made to stand on two feet like a man, and the mind of a man was given to it.

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“The first was like a lion,(A) and it had the wings of an eagle.(B) I watched until its wings were torn off and it was lifted from the ground so that it stood on two feet like a human being, and the mind of a human was given to it.

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