Nahum 3:17 · Clearspring

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WEBBE

Your guards are like the locusts, and your officials like the swarms of locusts, which settle on the walls on a cold day, but when the sun appears, they flee away, and their place is not known where they are.

BSB

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.

KJV

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.

ASV

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.

BBE

Your crowned ones are like the locusts, and your scribes like the clouds of insects which take cover in the walls on a cold day, but when the sun comes up they go in flight, and are seen no longer in their place.

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מִנְּזָרַיִךְ mi·ne·za·ra·yikh courtiers your H4502 כָּאַרְבֶּה ka·'ar·beh [are] like the locust H697 וְטַפְסְרַיִךְ ve·taf·se·ra·yikh and officials your H2951 כְּגוֹב ke·gov [are] like a locust of H1462 גֹּבָי goyai locusts H1462 הַחוֹנִים ha·cho·nim which encamp H2583 בַּגְּדֵרוֹת ba·ge·de·rot in the walls H1448 בְּיוֹם be·yom on a day of H3117 קָרָה ka·rah coldness H7135 שֶׁמֶשׁ she·mesh [the] sun H8121 זָרְחָה za·re·chah it rises H2224 וְנוֹדַד ve·no·dad and it flees H5074 וְלֹא־ ve·lo'- and not H3808 נוֹדַע no·da' it is known H3045 מְקוֹמוֹ me·ko·mo place its H4725 אַיָּם 'ai·yam where [are]? they H335

Commentary

Matthew Henry · Verses 8–19

Strong-holds, even the strongest, are no defence against the judgments of God. They shall be unable to do any thing for themselves. The Chaldeans and Medes would devour the land like canker-worms. The Assyrians also would be eaten up by their own numerous hired troops, which seem to be meant by the word rendered "merchants." Those that have done evil to their neighbours, will find it come home to them. Nineveh, and many other cities, states, and empires, have been ruined, and should be a warning to us. Are we better, except as there are some true Christians amongst us, who are a greater security, and a stronger defence, than all the advantages of situation or strength? When the Lord shows himself against a people, every thing they trust in must fail, or prove a disadvantage; but he continues good to Israel. He is a strong-hold for every believer in time of trouble, that cannot be stormed or taken; and he knoweth those that trust in Him.

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