Nahum 3:16-18
Holman Christian Standard Bible
16 You have made your merchants(A)
more numerous than the stars of the sky.
The young locust strips[a] the land
and flies away.
17 Your court officials are like the swarming locust,
and your scribes like clouds of locusts,
which settle on the walls on a cold day;
when the sun rises, they take off,
and no one knows where they are.
18 King of Assyria, your shepherds slumber;
your officers sleep.
Your people are scattered across the mountains
with no one to gather them together.(B)
Footnotes
- Nahum 3:16 Or sheds [its skin]
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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