Nahum 3:16-18
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
16 You have made your traders[a] more numerous
than the stars of the heavens;
like grasshoppers that shed their skins and fly away.
17 Your sentries are like locusts,
and your scribes like locust swarms
Gathered on the rubble fences
on a cold day!
Yet when the sun rises, they vanish,
and no one knows where they have gone.
18 Your shepherds slumber,
O king of Assyria,
your nobles have gone to rest;
Your people are scattered upon the mountains,
with none to gather them.
Footnotes
- 3:16 Traders: agents of the economic exploitation that sustained and enriched the Assyrian empire.
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