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Nahum 3:17-19
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
Nahum 3:17-19
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
17 Your guards are like grasshoppers,
your scribes like swarms[a] of locusts
settling on the fences
on a cold day—
when the sun rises, they fly away;
no one knows where they have gone.
18 Your shepherds are asleep,
O king of Assyria;
your nobles slumber.
Your people are scattered on the mountains
with no one to gather them.(A)
19 There is no assuaging your hurt;
your wound is mortal.
All who hear the news about you
clap their hands over you.
For who has ever escaped
your endless cruelty?(B)
Footnotes
- 3.17 Meaning of Heb uncertain
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