Nahum 3:17

The English Standar Version

Your princes are like grasshoppers, your scribes[3] like clouds of locusts settling on the fences in a day of cold -- when the sun rises, they fly away; no one knows where they are.

Cross References

Jeremiah 51:27

"Set up a standard on the earth; blow the trumpet among the nations; prepare the nations for war against her; summon against her the kingdoms, Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz; appoint a marshal against her; bring up horses like bristling locusts.

Ezekiel 31:12

Foreigners, the most ruthless of nations, have cut it down and left it. On the mountains and in all the valleys its branches have fallen, and its boughs have been broken in all the ravines of the land, and all the peoples of the earth have gone away from its shadow and left it.

Nahum 2:9

Plunder the silver, plunder the gold! There is no end of the treasure or of the wealth of all precious things.

Revelation 9:7

In appearance the locusts were like horses prepared for battle: on their heads were what looked like crowns of gold; their faces were like human faces,