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Nahum 3:16
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14 Draw your water for the siege!
aFortify your strongholds!
Go into the clay and tread the mortar!
Make strong the brick kiln! 
15 There the fire will devour you,
The sword will cut you off;
It will eat you up like a alocust.
Make yourself many—like the locust!
Make yourself many— like the swarming locusts! 
16 You have multiplied your amerchants more than the stars of heaven.
The locust plunders and flies away. 
17 aYour commanders are like swarming locusts,
And your generals like great grasshoppers,
Which camp in the hedges on a cold day;
When the sun rises they flee away,
And the place where they are is not known. 
18 aYour shepherds slumber, O bking of Assyria;
Your nobles rest in the dust.
Your people are cscattered on the mountains,
And no one gathers them. 
19 Your injury has no healing,
aYour wound is severe.
bAll who hear news of you
Will clap their hands over you,
For upon whom has not your wickedness passed continually? 
Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
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Nahum 3:16

multiplied thy merchants— (Ezekiel 27:23-24). Nineveh, by large canals, had easy access to Babylon; and it was one of the great routes for the people of the west and northwest to that city; lying on the Tigris it had access to the sea. The Phœnicians carried its wares everywhere. Hence its merchandise is so much spoken of.

the cankerworm spoileth, and fleeth away—that is, spoiled thy merchants. The "cankerworm," or licking locust, answers to the Medo-Babylonian invaders of Nineveh [G. V. SMITH]. CALVIN explains less probably, "Thy merchants spoiled many regions; but the same shall befall them as befalls locusts, they in a moment shall be scattered and flee away." MAURER, somewhat similarly, "The licking locust puts off (the envelope in which his wings had been folded), and teeth away" (Nahum 2:9; compare Joel 1:4). The Hebrew has ten different names for the locust, so destructive was it.




Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Nahum 3:16:

Isaiah 47:15
Joel 1:4
Nahum 2:9

 

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