Nahum 3:15-17

Woe to Nineveh

15 There will the fire devour you;
the sword will cut you off.
It will v devour you w like the locust.
Multiply yourselves w like the locust;
multiply w like the grasshopper!
 16 You increased x your merchants
more than the stars of the heavens.
w The locust spreads its wings and flies away.

17 Your z princes are w like grasshoppers,
a your scribes 1 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.

  1. Cross References
    Joel 2:3
    Fire devours before them, and behind them a flame burns. The land is like the garden of Eden before them, but behind them a desolate wilderness, and nothing escapes them.
  2. Cross References
    Joel 1:4
    What the cutting locust left, the swarming locust has eaten. What the swarming locust left, the hopping locust has eaten, and what the hopping locust left, the destroying locust has eaten.
    Joel 1:6
    For a nation has come up against my land, powerful and beyond number; its teeth are lions' teeth, and it has the fangs of a lioness.
  3. Cross References
    Joel 1:4
    What the cutting locust left, the swarming locust has eaten. What the swarming locust left, the hopping locust has eaten, and what the hopping locust left, the destroying locust has eaten.
    Joel 1:6
    For a nation has come up against my land, powerful and beyond number; its teeth are lions' teeth, and it has the fangs of a lioness.
  4. Cross References
    Joel 1:4
    What the cutting locust left, the swarming locust has eaten. What the swarming locust left, the hopping locust has eaten, and what the hopping locust left, the destroying locust has eaten.
    Joel 1:6
    For a nation has come up against my land, powerful and beyond number; its teeth are lions' teeth, and it has the fangs of a lioness.
  5. Cross References
    Ezekiel 27:23 - 24
    Haran, Canneh, Eden, traders of Sheba, Asshur, and Chilmad traded with you.
  6. Cross References
    Nahum 3:15
    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!
  7. Cross References
    Isaiah 10:8
    For he says: "Are not my commanders all kings?
  8. Cross References
    Nahum 3:15
    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!
  9. Cross References
    Jeremiah 51:27
    Set up a standard on the earth; blow the trumpet among the nations; prepare the nations for war against her; summon against her the kingdoms, Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz; appoint a marshal against her; bring up horses like bristling locusts.
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