Nahum 3:15 — Bible Verse (KJV)
“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.”
Nahum 3:15 — King James Version (KJV), 1611
Nahum 3:15 in 6 Bible Translations
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Nahum 3:15 WEB — World English Bible (2000)
“There the fire will devour you. The sword will cut you off. It will devour you like the grasshopper. Multiply like grasshoppers. Multiply like the locust.”
Nahum 3:15 — World English Bible
Nahum 3:15 ASV — American Standard Version (1901)
“There shall the fire devour thee; the sword shall cut thee off; it shall devour thee like the canker-worm: make thyself many as the canker-worm; make thyself many as the locust.”
Nahum 3:15 — American Standard Version
Nahum 3:15 YLT — Young's Literal Translation (1862)
“There consume thee doth a fire, Cut thee off doth a sword, It doth consume thee as a cankerworm! Make thyself heavy as the cankerworm, Make thyself heavy as the locust.”
Nahum 3:15 — Young's Literal Translation
Nahum 3:15 DBY — Darby Translation (1890)
“There shall the fire devour thee; the sword shall cut thee off; it shall devour thee like the cankerworm. Make thyself many as the cankerworm, make thyself many as the locust. ”
Nahum 3:15 — Darby Translation
Nahum 3:15 GEN — Geneva Bible (1599)
“There shall ye fire deuoure thee: the sword shall cut thee off: it shall eate thee vp like the locustes, though thou bee multiplied like the locustes, and multiplyed like the grashopper.”
Nahum 3:15 — Geneva Bible
Nahum 3:15 in Context — Nahum 3
13 Behold, thy people in the midst of thee are women: the gates of thy land shall be set wide open unto thine enemies: the fire shall devour thy bars.
14 Draw thee waters for the siege, fortify thy strong holds: go into clay, and tread the morter, make strong the brickkiln.
15 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.
16 Thou hast multiplied thy merchants above the stars of heaven: the cankerworm spoileth, and flieth away.
17 Thy crowned are as the locusts, and thy captains as the great grasshoppers, which camp in the hedges in the cold day, but when the sun ariseth they flee away, and their place is not known where they are.
What Does Nahum 3:15 Mean?
Nahum 3:15 is a verse from the Book of Nahum, part of the Old Testament. It appears in Nahum chapter 3. Use The Living Sword's word-by-word study mode to explore every word in the original Hebrew and Aramaic.
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