Nahum 3:13-19

13 Look at your troops— they are all weaklings. The gates of your land are wide open to your enemies; fire has consumed the bars of your gates.
14 Draw water for the siege, strengthen your defenses! Work the clay, tread the mortar, repair the brickwork!
15 There the fire will consume you; the sword will cut you down— they will devour you like a swarm of locusts. Multiply like grasshoppers, multiply like locusts!
16 You have increased the number of your merchants till they are more numerous than the stars in the sky, but like locusts they strip the land and then fly away.
17 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.
18 King of Assyria, your shepherds[a] slumber; your nobles lie down to rest. Your people are scattered on the mountains with no one to gather them.
19 Nothing can heal you; your wound is fatal. All who hear the news about you clap their hands at your fall, for who has not felt your endless cruelty?

Cross References 16

  • 1. S Isaiah 19:16; Jeremiah 50:37
  • 2. S Nahum 2:6
  • 3. S Isaiah 45:2
  • 4. S 2 Chronicles 32:4
  • 5. Nahum 2:1
  • 6. S Isaiah 27:1
  • 7. S 2 Samuel 2:26
  • 8. S Jeremiah 51:14; S Joel 1:4
  • 9. S Exodus 10:13
  • 10. Jeremiah 51:27
  • 11. Psalms 76:5-6; S Jeremiah 25:27
  • 12. Isaiah 56:10
  • 13. S 1 Kings 22:17
  • 14. S Jeremiah 30:13; S Micah 1:9
  • 15. S Job 27:23; S Lamentations 2:15; Zephaniah 2:15
  • 16. Isaiah 37:18

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