Nahum 3:15-17
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
15 There the fire will devour you;
the sword will cut you off.
It will devour you like the locust.
Multiply yourselves like the locust;
multiply like the grasshopper!(A)
16 You increased your merchants
more than the stars of the heavens.
The locust sheds its skin and flies away.
17 Your guards are like grasshoppers,
your scribes like swarms[a] of locusts
settling on the fences
on a cold day—
when the sun rises, they fly away;
no one knows where they have gone.
Footnotes
- 3.17 Meaning of Heb uncertain
Nahum 3:15-17
English Standard Version
15 There will the fire devour you;
the sword will cut you off.
It will (A)devour you (B)like the locust.
Multiply yourselves (C)like the locust;
multiply (D)like the grasshopper!
16 You increased (E)your merchants
more than the stars of the heavens.
(F)The locust spreads its wings and flies away.
17 Your (G)princes are (H)like grasshoppers,
(I)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.
Footnotes
- Nahum 3:17 Or marshals
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