Nahum 3:15 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

¹⁵ The fire will devour you there; the sword will cut you down. It will devour you like the young locust. Multiply yourselves like the young locust; multiply like the swarming locust!

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁵ 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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁵ [But] there [in the very midst of these preparations] will the fire devour you; the sword will cut you off; it will destroy you as the locusts [destroy]. Multiply yourselves like the licking locusts; make yourselves many like the swarming locusts!

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁵ There shall the fire devour thee; the sword shall cut thee off; it shall devour thee like the canker-worm: make thyself many as the canker-worm; make thyself many as the locust.

Common English Bible

¹⁵ Fire will consume you there; the sword will cut you down; like the locust it will consume you. Multiply like the locust; multiply like the grasshopper!

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁵ There, fire will devour you. You will perish by the sword; it will devour you like the beetle. Gather together like the beetle. Multiply like the locust.

Nahum 3:15 Cross References

Isaiah 66:15

Look, the Lord will come with fire   – his chariots are like the whirlwind   – to execute his anger with fury and his rebuke with flames of fire.

Isaiah 66:16

For the Lord will execute judgement on all humanity  with his fiery sword, and many will be slain by the  Lord.

Jeremiah 51:14

The Lord of Armies has sworn by himself: I will fill you up with men as with locusts, and they will sing the victory song over you.

Joel 1:4

What the devouring locust  has left, the swarming locust has eaten; what the swarming locust has left, the young locust  has eaten; and what the young locust has left, the destroying locust  has eaten.

Joel 2:25

I will repay you for the years that the swarming locust ate, the young locust, the destroying locust, and the devouring locust – my great army that I sent against you.

Amos 7:1

The Lord God showed me this: He was forming a swarm of locusts  at the time the spring crop first began to sprout #– #after the cutting of the king’s hay.

Nahum 2:13

Beware, I am against you. This is the declaration of the  Lord of Armies. I will make your chariots go up in smoke, and the sword will devour your young lions. I will cut off your prey from the earth, and the sound of your messengers will never be heard again.

Nahum 3:13

Look, your troops are like women among you; your land’s city gates are wide open to your enemies. Fire will devour the bars of your gates.

Zephaniah 2:13

He will also stretch out his hand against the north and destroy Assyria; he will make Nineveh a desolate ruin, dry as the desert.