Nahum 3:16-18
Legacy Standard Bible
16 You have increased your (A)traders more than the stars of heaven—
The creeping locust [a]strips and flies away.
17 Your [b](B)guardsmen are like the swarming locust.
Your (C)marshals are like a locust-swarm
Encamping in the stone walls on a cold day.
The sun rises, and they flee,
And the place where they are is not known.
18 Your shepherds are (D)sleeping, O (E)king of Assyria;
Your (F)mighty ones are [c]lying down.
Your people are (G)scattered on the mountains,
And there is no one to regather them.
Footnotes
- Nahum 3:16 Strips vegetation; or molts
- Nahum 3:17 Or officials
- Nahum 3:18 Lit dwelling
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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