Nahum 3:17

Thy crowned [are] as the locusts, and thy captains as the great grasshoppers, which camp in the hedges in the cold day, [but] when the sun ariseth they flee away, and their place is not known where they [are].

Thy crowned {H4502} are as the locusts {H697}, and thy captains {H2951} as the great grasshoppers {H1462}, which camp {H2583} in the hedges {H1448} in the cold {H7135} day {H3117}, but when the sun {H8121} ariseth {H2224} they flee away {H5074}, and their place {H4725} is not known {H3045} where {H335} they are.

Your guards are like grasshoppers, your marshals like swarms of locusts, which settle on the walls on a cold day, but when the sun rises they fly away; they vanish to no one knows where.

Your guards are like the swarming locust, and your scribes like clouds of locusts that settle on the walls on a cold day. When the sun rises, they fly away, and no one knows where.

Thy princes are as the locusts, and thy marshals as the swarms of grasshoppers, which encamp in the hedges in the cold day, but when the sun ariseth they flee away, and their place is not known where they are.

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Cross-References

  • Revelation 9:7 (3 votes)

    And the shapes of the locusts [were] like unto horses prepared unto battle; and on their heads [were] as it were crowns like gold, and their faces [were] as the faces of men.

  • Jeremiah 51:27 (3 votes)

    Set ye up a standard in the land, blow the trumpet among the nations, prepare the nations against her, call together against her the kingdoms of Ararat, Minni, and Ashchenaz; appoint a captain against her; cause the horses to come up as the rough caterpillers.