Nahum 3:15
King James VersionSource notes
“There shall the fire devour thee; the sword shall cut thee off, it shall eat thee up like the cankerworm: make thyself many as the cankerworm, make thyself many as the locusts.”
Context
12All thy strong holds fig trees with the firstripe figs: if they be shaken, they shall even fall into the mouth of the eater.
13Behold, thy people in the midst of thee women: the gates of thy land shall be set wide open unto thine enemies: the fire shall devour thy bars.
14Draw thee waters for the siege, fortify thy strong holds: go into clay, and tread the morter, make strong the brickkiln.
15There shall the fire devour thee; the sword shall cut thee off, it shall eat thee up like the cankerworm: make thyself many as the cankerworm, make thyself many as the locusts.
16Thou hast multiplied thy merchants above the stars of heaven: the cankerworm spoileth, and fleeth away.
17Thy crowned as the locusts, and thy captains as the great grasshoppers, which camp in the hedges in the cold day, when the sun ariseth they flee away, and their place is not known where they
18Thy shepherds slumber, O king of Assyria: thy nobles shall dwell thy people is scattered upon the mountains, and no man gathereth