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Nahum 3:15

There the fire will devour you; the sword will cut you down and consume you like a young locust. Make yourself many like the young locust; make yourself many like the swarming locust!

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ASV

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.

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.

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OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
שָׁ֚םShamthereH8033 →
תֹּאכְלֵ֣ךְto.khe.Lekhit will consume youH398 →
אֵ֔שׁ'EshfireH784 →
תַּכְרִיתֵ֣ךְtakh.ri.Tekhit will cut off youH3772 →
חֶ֔רֶבChe.rev[the] swordH2719 →
תֹּאכְלֵ֖ךְto.khe.Lekhit will consume youH398 →
כַּיָּ֑לֶקkai.Ya.leklike the locustH3218 →
הִתְכַּבֵּ֣דhit.ka.Bedmake yourself numerousH3513 →
כַּיֶּ֔לֶקkai.Ye.leklike the locustH3218 →
הִֽתְכַּבְּדִ֖יhit.ka.be.Dimake yourself numerousH3513 →
כָּאַרְבֶּֽה׃ka.'ar.Behlike the locustH697 →

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Joel 1:4What the devouring locust has left, the swarming locust has eaten; what the swarming locust has left, the young locust has eaten; and what the young locust has left, the destroying locust has eaten.2 Timothy 2:17and the talk of such men will spread like gangrene. Among them are Hymenaeus and Philetus,Nahum 2:13“Behold, I am against you,” declares the LORD of Hosts. “I will send your chariots up in smoke, and the sword will devour your young lions. I will cut off your prey from the earth, and the voices of your messengers will no longer be heard.”Nahum 3:13Look at your troops—they are like your women! The gates of your land are wide open to your enemies; fire consumes their bars.Zephaniah 2:13And He will stretch out His hand against the north and destroy Assyria; He will make Nineveh a desolation, as dry as a desert.Joel 2:25I will repay you for the years eaten by locusts—the swarming locust, the young locust, the destroying locust, and the devouring locust—My great army that I sent against you.Exodus 10:13–15So Moses stretched out his staff over the land of Egypt, and throughout that day and night the LORD sent an east wind across the land. By morning the east wind had brought the locusts.Revelation 9:3And out of the smoke, locusts descended on the earth, and they were given power like that of the scorpions of the earth.

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