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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 · WEB

This verse in other languages

ગુજરાતીનાહૂમ ૩:૧૫
અગ્નિ તને ભસ્મ કરી નાખશે, તલવાર તારી હત્યા કરશે. તે તને તીડની જેમ ભસ્મ કરી નાખશે. તીડની તથા કાતરાઓની જેમ તને વધારશે.
हिन्दीनहूम ३:१५
वहाँ तू आग में भस्म होगी , और तलवार से तू नष्ट हो जाएगी। वह येलेक नाम टिड्डी के समान तुझे निगल जाएगी। यद्यपि तू अर्बे नामक टिड्डी के समान अनगिनत भी हो जाए!

In context

13Behold, your troops among you are women. The gates of your land are set wide open to your enemies. The fire has devoured your bars.

14Draw water for the siege. Strengthen your fortresses. Go into the clay, and tread the mortar. Make the brick kiln strong.

15There 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.

16You have increased your merchants more than the stars of the skies. The grasshopper strips and flees away.

17Your 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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