Nahum 3:15

15 In spite of all of your hard work,

fire will burn you up inside your city.

Your enemies will cut you down with their swords.

They will destroy you

just as grasshoppers eat up crops.

Multiply like grasshoppers!

Increase your numbers like locusts!

Nahum 3:15 — New International Version (2011) (NIV)

15 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!

Nahum 3:15 — English Standard Version (ESV)

15 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!

Nahum 3:15 — King James Version (KJV 1900)

15 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.

Nahum 3:15 — New Living Translation (NLT)

15 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.

Nahum 3:15 — The New King James Version (NKJV)

15 There the fire will devour you,

The sword will cut you off;

It will eat you up like a locust.

Make yourself many—like the locust!

Make yourself many—like the swarming locusts!

Nahum 3:15 — New Century Version (NCV)

15 There the fire will burn you up.

The sword will kill you;

like grasshoppers eating crops, the battle will completely destroy you.

Grow in number like hopping locusts;

grow in number like swarming locusts!

Nahum 3:15 — American Standard Version (ASV)

15 There shall the fire devour thee; the sword shall cut thee off; it shall devour thee like the canker-worm: make thyself many as the canker-worm; make thyself many as the locust.

Nahum 3:15 — 1890 Darby Bible (DARBY)

15 There shall the fire devour thee; the sword shall cut thee off; it shall devour thee like the cankerworm. Make thyself many as the cankerworm, make thyself many as the locust.