Nahum 3:15

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

You will still go up in flames and be cut down by swords that will wipe you out like wheat attacked by grasshoppers. So, go ahead and increase like a swarm of locusts!

Cross References

Isaiah 66:15

The LORD will come down like a whirlwind with his flaming chariots. He will be terribly furious and punish his enemies with fire.

Isaiah 66:16

The LORD's fiery sword will bring justice everywhere on this earth and execute many people.

Jeremiah 51:14

I, the LORD All-Powerful, swear by my own life that enemy soldiers will fill your streets like a swarm of locusts. They will shout and celebrate their victory.

Joel 1:4

Swarm after swarm of locusts has attacked our crops, eating everything in sight.

Joel 2:25

I, the LORD your God, will make up for the losses caused by those swarms and swarms of locusts I sent to attack you.

Amos 7:1

The LORD God showed me that he is going to send locusts to attack your crops. It will happen after the king has already been given his share of the grain and before the rest of the grain has been harvested.

Nahum 2:13

The LORD All-Powerful, is against you, Nineveh. God will burn your chariots and send an army to kill those young lions of yours. You will never again make victims of others or send messengers to threaten everyone on this earth.

Nahum 3:13

Your army is weak. Fire has destroyed the crossbars on your city gates; now they stand wide open to your enemy.

Zephaniah 2:13

The LORD will reach to the north to crush Assyria and overthrow Nineveh.