New American Standard Bible 2020

Nahum 3:14-19

14 1Draw for yourself water for a siege! 2Strengthen your fortifications! Go into the clay and tread the mortar! Take hold of the brick mold!15There 3fire will consume you, The sword will cut you down; It will 4consume you as the creeping locust consumes a crop. Multiply yourself like the creeping locust, Multiply yourself like the migratory locust.16You have made your 5traders more numerous than the stars of heaven-- The creeping locust sheds its skin and flies away.17Your 6courtiers are like the migratory locust. Your 7officials are like a swarm of locusts Settling in the stone shelters on a cold day. The sun rises and they flee, And the place where they are is not known.18Your shepherds are 8sleeping, O 9king of Assyria; Your 10officers are lying down. Your people are 11scattered on the mountains And there is no one to gather them.19There is 12no relief for your collapse, Your 13wound is incurable. All who hear 14about you Will 15clap their hands over you, For upon whom has your evil not come continually?

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Notes

1. Nahum 3:14 2 Chr 32:3, 4 ↩
2. Nahum 3:14 Nah 2:1 ↩
3. Nahum 3:15 Is 66:15, 16; Nah 2:13; 3:13 ↩
4. Nahum 3:15 Joel 1:4 ↩
5. Nahum 3:16 Is 23:8 ↩
6. Nahum 3:17 Rev 9:7 ↩
7. Nahum 3:17 Jer 51:27 ↩
8. Nahum 3:18 Ps 76:5, 6; Is 56:10; Jer 51:57 ↩
9. Nahum 3:18 Jer 50:18 ↩
10. Nahum 3:18 Nah 2:5 ↩
11. Nahum 3:18 1 Kin 22:17; Is 13:14 ↩
12. Nahum 3:19 Jer 46:11; Mic 1:9 ↩
13. Nahum 3:19 Jer 30:12 ↩
14. Nahum 3:19 Lit your report ↩
15. Nahum 3:19 Job 27:23; Lam 2:15 ↩

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