Nahum 3:17
Berean Standard Bible
Your guards * are like the swarming locust, and your scribes * like clouds of locusts that settle on the walls on a cold day. When the sun rises, they fly away, and no one knows where.
Context
15There the fire will devour you;
the sword will cut you down
and consume you like a young locust.
Make yourself many like the young locust;
make yourself many like the swarming locust! 16You have multiplied your merchants
more than the stars of the sky.
The young locust strips the land
and flies away. 17Your guards * are like the swarming locust,
and your scribes * like clouds of locusts
that settle on the walls on a cold day.
When the sun rises, they fly away,
and no one knows where. 18O king of Assyria, your shepherds slumber;
your officers sleep.
Your people are scattered on the mountains
with no one to gather them. 19There is no healing for your injury;
your wound is severe.
All who hear the news of you
applaud your downfall,
for who has not experienced
your constant cruelty?
English text: Berean Standard Bible (BSB). English audio: Berean Standard Audio Bible.