Nahum 3:17

Nahum 3:17 in 6 English translations. Each links through to the full chapter for context.

New International Version (NIV)

17Your guards are like locusts,

your officials like swarms of locusts

that settle in the walls on a cold day—

but when the sun appears they fly away,

and no one knows where.

17Your courtiers are like the migratory locust.

Your officials are like a swarm of locusts

Settling in the stone shelters on a cold day.

The sun rises and they flee,

And the place where they are is not known.

17Your guardsmen are like the swarming locust.

Your marshals are like hordes of grasshoppers

Settling in the stone walls on a cold day.

The sun rises and they flee,

And the place where they are is not known.

17Your guardsmen are like the swarming locusts.

Your marshals are like the hordes of grasshoppers

Settling in the stone walls on a cold day.

When the sun rises, they fly away,

And no one knows the place where they are.

17Your guards3:17 Or princes are like the swarming locust,

and your scribes3:17 Or marshals like clouds of locusts

that settle on the walls on a cold day.

When the sun rises, they fly away,

and no one knows where.

17Your guards are like grasshoppers.

Your officials are like swarms of locusts.

They settle in the walls on a cold day.

But when the sun appears, they fly away.

And no one knows where they go.