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Nahum 3:15 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" There the fire will devour you. The sword will cut you off. It will devour you like the grasshopper. Multiply like grasshoppers. Multiply like the locust. "
Nahum 3:15
Verse in Context
Understanding the surrounding verses prevents misinterpretation:
13 Behold, your troops among you are women. The gates of your land are set wide open to your enemies. The fire has devoured your bars.
14 Draw water for the siege. Strengthen your fortresses. Go into the clay, and tread the mortar. Make the brick kiln strong.
15 There the fire will devour you. The sword will cut you off. It will devour you like the grasshopper. Multiply like grasshoppers. Multiply like the locust.
16 You have increased your merchants more than the stars of the skies. The grasshopper strips and flees away.
17 Your guards are like the locusts, and your officials like the swarms of locusts, which settle on the walls on a cold day, but when the sun appears, they flee away, and their place is not known where they are.
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Nahum 3:1
"Woe to the bloody city! It is all full of lies and robbery—no end to the prey."
Nahum 3:2
"The noise of the whip, the noise of the rattling of wheels, prancing horses, and bounding chariots,"
Nahum 3:3
"the horseman charging, and the flashing sword, the glittering spear, and a multitude of slain, and a great heap of corpses, and there is no end of the bodies. They stumble on their bodies"
Nahum 3:4
"because of the multitude of the prostitution of the alluring prostitute, the mistress of witchcraft, who sells nations through her prostitution, and families through her witchcraft."
Nahum 3:5
"“Behold, I am against you,” says the LORD of Armies, “and I will lift your skirts over your face. I will show the nations your nakedness, and the kingdoms your shame."
Nahum 3:6
"I will throw abominable filth on you and make you vile, and will make you a spectacle."
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