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Nahum 3:17
English Standard Version
Nahum 3:17
English Standard Version
17 Your (A)princes are (B)like grasshoppers,
(C)your scribes[a] like clouds of locusts
settling on the fences
in a day of cold—
when the sun rises, they fly away;
no one knows where they are.
Footnotes
- Nahum 3:17 Or marshals
Nahum 3:17
New International Version
Nahum 3:17
New International Version
17 Your guards are like locusts,(A)
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.
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