Nahum 3:15

There the fire will consume you, the sword will cut you down. Multiply like the locust or a swarm of grasshoppers.

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In The King 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.

In Context

14“Draw water for the siege, strengthen your forts. Go to the clay pits and tread the clay; take up the brick moulds.

16Increase the numbers of your merchants until they are more than the stars of heaven,

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Cross References

Joel 2:25I will repay you for the years which the swarming locust has eaten. The hopping, the destroying, and the cutting locusts, my great army which I sent among you, and my people will never again be put to shame.

Nahum 3:13Your troops are weak as women before your foes; the gates of your land are wide open; your defenses burned down.

Matthew Henry on Nahum 3:9-19

The Judgment of Nineveh. ( b. c. 710.) 8 Art thou better than populous No, that was situate among the rivers, that had the waters round about it, whose rampart was the sea, and her wall was from the sea? 9 Ethiopia and Egypt were her strength, and it was infinite; Put and Lubim were thy helpers. 10 Yet was she carried away, she went into captivity: her young children also were dashed in pieces at the top of all the streets: and they cast lots for her honourable men, and all her great men were bound in chains. 11… Read the whole commentary →

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