Nahum 3:15-17
New American Standard Bible
15 There (A)fire will consume you,
The sword will cut you down;
It will (B)consume you as the creeping locust consumes a crop.
Multiply yourself like the creeping locust,
Multiply yourself like the migratory locust.
16 You have made your (C)traders more numerous than the stars of heaven—
The creeping locust sheds its skin and flies away.
17 Your (D)courtiers are like the migratory locust.
Your (E)officials are like a swarm of locusts
Settling in the stone shelters on a cold day.
The sun rises and they flee,
And the place where they are is not known.
Nahum 3:15-17
International Standard Version
15 In that place fire will consume you,
the sword will cut you down,
consuming you as locusts do.
Multiply yourself like locusts,
increase like swarming grasshoppers.
16 You added to your inventory of businessmen—
they number more than the stars of heaven.
The creeping locust sheds its skin and flies away.
17 Your imperial guards are like the swarming grasshopper;
your marshals are like hordes of grasshoppers,
settling in the stone walls on a chilly day.
The sun rises, and they flee away;
no one knows where they went.
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