Nahum 3:16-18
Good News Translation
16 You produced more merchants than there are stars in the sky! But now they are gone, like locusts that spread their wings and fly away. 17 Your officials are like a swarm of locusts that stay in the walls on a cold day. But when the sun comes out, they fly away, and no one knows where they have gone!
18 Emperor of Assyria, your governors are dead, and your noblemen are asleep forever! Your people are scattered on the mountains, and there is no one to bring them home again.
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Nahum 3:16-18
New International Version
16 You have increased the number of your merchants
till they are more numerous than the stars in the sky,
but like locusts(A) they strip the land
and then fly away.
17 Your guards are like locusts,(B)
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.
Footnotes
- Nahum 3:18 That is, rulers
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