16 You increased (A)your merchants
    more than the stars of the heavens.
    (B)The locust spreads its wings and flies away.

17 Your (C)princes[a] are (D)like grasshoppers,
    (E)your scribes[b] 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.

18 Your shepherds (F)are asleep,
    O king of Assyria;
    (G)your nobles slumber.
Your people (H)are scattered on the mountains
    with none to gather them.

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Footnotes

  1. Nahum 3:17 Or guards
  2. Nahum 3:17 Or marshals

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