Nahum 3:17

Your princes are as many as the full-grown locusts, and your generals are like swarms of them 1 that camp in the walls on a cold day. 1 But when the sun rises they fly away to no one knows where. 1

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In The King James Version

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.

In Context

16You have multiplied your merchants more than the stars in the heavens; but they are like young locusts: they plunder the land and then fly away. 1

18King of Assyria, your shepherds are asleep; your rulers are lying down resting. 1 Your people are scattered on the mountains, and there is no one to gather them. 1

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Cross References

Jeremiah 51:27Lift up a banner over the earth. Blow the trumpet over the nations. Call the nations to attack her: 1 Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz. 1 Appoint a commander to attack her; bring up horses like swarming locusts. 1

Revelation 9:7The locusts looked like horses prepared for war. On their heads were something like crowns of gold, and their faces were like human faces.

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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