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Nahum 3:14-16
New Catholic Bible
Nahum 3:14-16
New Catholic Bible
14 Draw yourselves water for the siege!
Strengthen your fortifications!
Trample the clay,
tread the mortar,
repair the brickwork!
15 Then the fire will consume you
and the sword will cut you off.
Multiply yourselves like the locusts,
make yourselves as numerous as the grasshoppers.
Like the Locusts, Strip the Land and Fly Away[a]
16 You have increased the number of your merchants
until they now outnumber the stars of the heavens,
but like the locusts, they strip the land
and then fly away.
Footnotes
- Nahum 3:16 Like a swarm of insects, a crowd of businessmen and functionaries had battered the Orient. The wind turns and goes, and takes away the evil-doing swarm.
