Nahum 3:17

Modern English Version

Your leaders are like grasshoppers, your commanders like swarms of locusts, which camp in the hedges on a cold day; when the sun rises they fly away, and the place where they are is not known.

Cross References

Jeremiah 51:27

Set up a standard in the land, blow the trumpet among the nations, prepare the nations against her, call together against her the kingdoms of Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz; appoint a captain against her. Cause the horses to come up as the rough locusts.

Ezekiel 31:12

Foreigners, the tyrants of the nations have cut it off and left it. Upon the mountains and in all the valleys its branches have fallen, and its boughs have been broken by all the rivers of the land. And all the peoples of the earth have gone down from its shadow and have left it.

Nahum 2:9

“Plunder the silver! Plunder the gold! There is no limit to the treasure, or to the wealth of every precious thing.”

Revelation 9:7

The shape of the locusts was like horses prepared for battle. On their heads were something like crowns of gold, and their faces were like faces of men.