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Nahum 3:14-16
International Standard Version
Nahum 3:14-16
International Standard Version
The Futility of Avoiding God’s Judgment
14 “Draw water, because a siege is coming![a]
Strengthen your fortresses!
Make the clay good and strong!
Mix the mortar!
Go get your brick molds![b]
15 In that place fire will consume you,
the sword will cut you down,
consuming you as locusts do.
Multiply yourself like locusts,
increase like swarming grasshoppers.
16 You added to your inventory of businessmen—
they number more than the stars of heaven.
The creeping locust sheds its skin and flies away.
Footnotes
- Nahum 3:14 The Heb. lacks coming
- Nahum 3:14 I.e. this verse appears to be affirming the uselessness of constructing a defense against God’s coming judgment.
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