14 Draw thee waters for the siege: fortify thy strongholds: go into the clay, and temper the mortar: make strong brick.

15 There shall the fire devour thee: the sword shall cut thee off: it shall eat thee up like the [a]locusts, though thou be multiplied like the locusts, and multiplied like the grasshopper.

16 Thou hast multiplied thy merchants above the stars of heaven: the locust spoileth and flieth away.

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Footnotes

  1. Nahum 3:15 Signifying, that God’s judgments should suddenly destroy the Assyrians, as these vermin are with rain or change of weather.

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