Nahum 3:17

The Scriptures 1998

Your officials are like the locusts, and your marshals are like the great grasshoppers, which settle in the hedges on a cold day – when the sun rises they flee away, and the place where they are is unknown.

Cross References

Jeremiah 51:27

Lift up a banner in the land, blow the ram’s horn among the nations! Prepare the nations against her, call the reigns together against her: Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz. Appoint a commander against her, bring up horses like hairy locusts.

Ezekiel 31:12

‘And foreigners, the most ruthless of the nations, shall cut it down and leave it. Its branches shall fall on the mountains and in all the valleys, its boughs lie broken by all the rivers of the land. And all the peoples of the earth shall come out from under its shadow and leave it.

Nahum 2:9

Plunder the silver! Plunder the gold! There is no limit to the treasure – a wealth of all precious objects.

Revelation 9:7

And the locusts looked like horses prepared for battle, and on their heads were crowns like gold, and their faces were like the faces of men.