Look, the Lord will come with fire – his chariots are like the whirlwind – to execute his anger with fury and his rebuke with flames of fire.
Nahum 3:15 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised The fire will devour you there; the sword will cut you down. It will devour you like the young locust. Multiply yourselves like the young locust; multiply like the swarming locust! Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 There shall the fire devour thee; the sword shall cut thee off, it shall eat thee up like the cankerworm: make thyself many as the cankerworm, make thyself many as the locusts. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition [But] there [in the very midst of these preparations] will the fire devour you; the sword will cut you off; it will destroy you as the locusts [destroy]. Multiply yourselves like the licking locusts; make yourselves many like the swarming locusts! American Standard Version (1901) There shall the fire devour thee; the sword shall cut thee off; it shall devour thee like the canker-worm: make thyself many as the canker-worm; make thyself many as the locust. Common English Bible Fire will consume you there; the sword will cut you down; like the locust it will consume you. Multiply like the locust; multiply like the grasshopper! Catholic Public Domain Version There, fire will devour you. You will perish by the sword; it will devour you like the beetle. Gather together like the beetle. Multiply like the locust. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version There shall the fire devour thee: thou shalt perish by the sword, it shall devour thee like the bruchus: assemble together like the bruchus, make thyself many like the locust. |
Look, the Lord will come with fire – his chariots are like the whirlwind – to execute his anger with fury and his rebuke with flames of fire.
For the Lord will execute judgement on all humanity with his fiery sword, and many will be slain by the Lord.
The Lord of Armies has sworn by himself: I will fill you up with men as with locusts, and they will sing the victory song over you.
What the devouring locust has left, the swarming locust has eaten; what the swarming locust has left, the young locust has eaten; and what the young locust has left, the destroying locust has eaten.
I will repay you for the years that the swarming locust ate, the young locust, the destroying locust, and the devouring locust – my great army that I sent against you.
The Lord God showed me this: He was forming a swarm of locusts at the time the spring crop first began to sprout #– #after the cutting of the king’s hay.
Beware, I am against you. This is the declaration of the Lord of Armies. I will make your chariots go up in smoke, and the sword will devour your young lions. I will cut off your prey from the earth, and the sound of your messengers will never be heard again.
Look, your troops are like women among you; your land’s city gates are wide open to your enemies. Fire will devour the bars of your gates.
He will also stretch out his hand against the north and destroy Assyria; he will make Nineveh a desolate ruin, dry as the desert.