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Nahum 3:15–16

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15The fire will devour you there;

the sword will cut you down.

It will devour you like the young locust.d

Multiply yourselves like the young locust;

multiply like the swarming locust!

16You have made your merchantse

more numerous than the stars of the sky.

The young locust stripsD the land

and flies away.

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Footnotes

  1. DOr sheds its skin

Cross references

  1. dJl 1:4
  2. eEzk 16:29; 17:4; 27:3,13,20,23–24; Zph 1:11; Rv 18:3,11,15,23

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

There will the fire devour you;

the sword will cut you off.

It will devour you like the locust.

Multiply yourselves like the locust;

multiply like the grasshopper!

You increased your merchants

more than the stars of the heavens.

The locust spreads its wings and flies away.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

There the fire will consume you;

the sword will cut you down—

they will devour you like a swarm of locusts.

Multiply like grasshoppers,

multiply like locusts!

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.

NLTNew Living Translation

But the fire will devour you;

the sword will cut you down.

The enemy will consume you like locusts,

devouring everything they see.

There will be no escape,

even if you multiply like swarming locusts.

Your merchants have multiplied

until they outnumber the stars.

But like a swarm of locusts,

they strip the land and fly away.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

There fire will consume you;

the sword will cut you off.

It will consume you like the locust.

Multiply yourself like the locust!

Multiply yourself like the grasshopper!

You have increased your merchants more than the stars of heaven;

like the locust they will shed their skin and fly away.

KJV 1900King James Version

There shall the fire devour thee;

The sword shall cut thee off,

It shall eat thee up like the cankerworm:

Make thyself many as the cankerworm,

Make thyself many as the locusts.

Thou hast multiplied thy merchants above the stars of heaven:

The cankerworm spoileth, and flieth away.