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Nahum 3:16-18
New International Version - UK
Nahum 3:16-18
New International Version - UK
16 You have increased the number of your merchants
till they are more numerous than the stars in the sky,
but like locusts they strip the land
and then fly away.
17 Your guards are like locusts,
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.
18 King of Assyria, your shepherds[a] slumber;
your nobles lie down to rest.
Your people are scattered on the mountains
with no one to gather them.
Footnotes
- Nahum 3:18 That is, rulers
New International Version - UK (NIVUK)
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