Nahum 3:17

New International Version

Your guards are like locusts, your officials like swarms of locusts that settle in the walls on a cold day— but when the sun appears they fly away, and no one knows where.

Cross References

Jeremiah 51:27

“Lift up a banner in the land! Blow the trumpet among the nations! Prepare the nations for battle against her; summon against her these kingdoms: Ararat, Minni and Ashkenaz. Appoint a commander against her; send up horses like a swarm of locusts.

Ezekiel 31:12

and the most ruthless of foreign nations cut it down and left it. Its boughs fell on the mountains and in all the valleys; its branches lay broken in all the ravines of the land. All the nations of the earth came out from under its shade and left it.

Nahum 2:9

Plunder the silver! Plunder the gold! The supply is endless, the wealth from all its treasures!

Revelation 9:7

The locusts looked like horses prepared for battle. On their heads they wore something like crowns of gold, and their faces resembled human faces.