Nahum 3:15

Bible in Basic English (1941)

There the fire will make you waste; you will be cut off by the sword: make yourself as great in number as the worms, as great in number as the locusts.

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Referenced Verses

  • Joel 1:4 : 4 What the worm did not make a meal of, has been taken by the locust; and what the locust did not take, has been food for the plant-worm; and what the plant-worm did not take, has been food for the field-fly.
  • Nah 2:13 : 13 Food enough for his young and for his she-lions was pulled down by the lion; his hole was full of flesh and his resting-place stored with meat.
  • Nah 3:13 : 13 See, the people who are in you are women; the doorways of your land are wide open to your attackers: the locks of your doors have been burned away in the fire.
  • Zeph 2:13 : 13 And his hand will be stretched out against the north, for the destruction of Assyria; and he will make Nineveh unpeopled and dry like the waste land.
  • Joel 2:25 : 25 I will give back to you the years which were food for the locust, the plant-worm, the field-fly, and the worm, my great army which I sent among you.
  • Exod 10:13-15 : 13 And Moses' rod was stretched out over the land of Egypt, and the Lord sent an east wind over the land all that day and all the night; and in the morning the locusts came up with the east wind. 14 And the locusts went up over all the land of Egypt, resting on every part of the land, in very great numbers; such an army of locusts had never been seen before, and never will be again. 15 For all the face of the earth was covered with them, so that the land was black; and every green plant and all the fruit of the trees which was untouched by the ice-storm they took for food: not one green thing, no plant or tree, was to be seen in all the land of Egypt.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Nah 3:16-17
    2 verses
    87%

    16 Let your traders be increased more than the stars of heaven:

    17 Your crowned ones are like the locusts, and your scribes like the clouds of insects which take cover in the walls on a cold day, but when the sun comes up they go in flight, and are seen no longer in their place.

  • Deut 28:42
    80%

    42 All your trees and the fruit of your land will be the locust's.

  • Jer 51:14
    80%

    14 The Lord of armies has taken an oath by himself, saying, Truly, I will make you full with men as with locusts, and their voices will be loud against you.

  • Isa 33:4
    79%

    4 And the goods taken in war will be got together like the massing of young locusts; men will be rushing on them like the rushing of locusts.

  • Deut 28:38-39
    2 verses
    79%

    38 You will take much seed out into the field, and get little in; for the locust will get it.

    39 You will put in vines and take care of them, but you will get no wine or grapes from them; for they will be food for worms.

  • Isa 33:11-12
    2 verses
    78%

    11 Your designs will be without profit, and their effect will be nothing: you will be burned up by the fire of my breath.

    12 And the peoples will be like the burning of chalk: as thorns cut down, which are burned in the fire.

  • Joel 1:4
    78%

    4 What the worm did not make a meal of, has been taken by the locust; and what the locust did not take, has been food for the plant-worm; and what the plant-worm did not take, has been food for the field-fly.

  • Nah 3:12-14
    3 verses
    78%

    12 All your walled places will be like fig-trees and your people like the first figs, falling at a shake into the mouth which is open for them.

    13 See, the people who are in you are women; the doorways of your land are wide open to your attackers: the locks of your doors have been burned away in the fire.

    14 Get water for the time when you are shut in, make strong your towns: go into the potter's earth, stamping it down with your feet, make strong the brickworks.

  • Jer 5:17
    77%

    17 They will take all the produce of your fields, which would have been food for your sons and your daughters: they will take your flocks and your herds: they will take all your vines and your fig-trees: and with the sword they will make waste your walled towns in which you put your faith.

  • Lev 26:38
    76%

    38 And death will overtake you among strange nations, and the land of your haters will be your destruction.

  • Joel 2:25
    76%

    25 I will give back to you the years which were food for the locust, the plant-worm, the field-fly, and the worm, my great army which I sent among you.

  • Jer 46:22-23
    2 verses
    76%

    22 She makes a sound like the hiss of a snake when they come on with strength; they go against her with axes, like wood-cutters.

    23 They will be cutting down her woods, for they may not be searched out; because they are like locusts, more than may be numbered.

  • Mic 6:14
    76%

    14 You will have food, but not enough; your shame will be ever with you: you will get your goods moved, but you will not take them away safely; and what you do take away I will give to the sword.

  • Deut 28:21-22
    2 verses
    76%

    21 The Lord will send disease after disease on you, till you have been cut off by death from the land to which you are going.

    22 The Lord will send wasting disease, and burning pain, and flaming heat against you, keeping back the rain till your land is waste and dead; so will it be till your destruction is complete.

  • Jer 22:7
    75%

    7 And I will make ready those who will send destruction on you, everyone armed for war: by them your best cedar-trees will be cut down and put in the fire.

  • Ps 21:9
    75%

    9 You will make them like a flaming oven before you; the Lord in his wrath will put an end to them, and they will be burned up in the fire.

  • Ps 105:34-35
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    75%

    34 At his word the locusts came, and young locusts more than might be numbered,

    35 And put an end to all the plants of their land, taking all the fruit of the earth for food.

  • Isa 29:5
    75%

    5 And the army of your attackers will be like small dust, and all the cruel ones like dry stems gone before the wind; suddenly it will come about.

  • Ps 78:46
    75%

    46 He gave the increase of their fields to worms, the fruits of their industry to the locusts.

  • Jer 30:16
    75%

    16 For this cause, all those who take you for their food will themselves become your food; and all your attackers, every one of them, will be taken prisoners; and those who send destruction on you will come to destruction; and all those who take away your goods by force will undergo the same themselves.

  • Deut 32:24
    75%

    24 They will be wasted from need of food, and overcome by burning heat and bitter destruction; and the teeth of beasts I will send on them, with the poison of the worms of the dust.

  • Ezek 7:15
    74%

    15 Outside is the sword, and inside disease and need of food: he who is in the open country will be put to the sword; he who is in the town will come to his end through need of food and disease.

  • Joel 2:3
    74%

    3 Before them fire sends destruction, and after them flame is burning: the land is like the garden of Eden before them, and after them an unpeopled waste; truly, nothing has been kept safe from them.

  • Isa 9:18
    74%

    18 For evil was burning like a fire; the blackberries and thorns were burned up; the thick woods took fire, rolling up in dark clouds of smoke.

  • Jer 15:14
    74%

    14 They will go away with your haters into a land which is strange to you: for my wrath is on fire with a flame which will be burning on you.

  • Isa 47:14
    74%

    14 Truly, they have become like dry stems, they have been burned in the fire; they are not able to keep themselves safe from the power of the flame: it is not a coal for warming them, or a fire by which a man may be seated.

  • Amos 7:1
    74%

    1 This is what the Lord God let me see: and I saw that, when the growth of the late grass was starting, he made locusts; it was the late growth after the king's cutting was done.

  • Isa 1:7
    74%

    7 Your country has become waste; your towns are burned with fire; as for your land, it is overturned before your eyes, made waste and overcome by men from strange lands.

  • Hab 2:7
    74%

    7 Will not your creditors suddenly be moved against you, and your troublers get up from their sleep, and you will be to them like goods taken in war?

  • Jer 5:14
    74%

    14 For this reason the Lord, the God of armies, has said: Because you have said this, I will make my words in your mouth a fire, and this people wood, and they will be burned up by it.

  • Deut 28:51
    74%

    51 He will take the fruit of your cattle and of your land till death puts an end to you: he will let you have nothing of your grain or wine or oil or any of the increase of your cattle or the young of your flock, till he has made your destruction complete.

  • Deut 28:25
    74%

    25 The Lord will let you be overcome by your haters: you will go out against them one way, and you will go in flight before them seven ways: you will be the cause of fear among all the kingdoms of the earth.

  • Hos 11:6
    74%

    6 And the sword will go through his towns, wasting his children and causing destruction because of their evil designs.

  • Isa 3:25
    74%

    25 Your men will be put to the sword, and your men of war will come to destruction in the fight.

  • Lev 26:16
    73%

    16 This will I do to you: I will put fear in your hearts, even wasting disease and burning pain, drying up the eyes and making the soul feeble, and you will get no profit from your seed, for your haters will take it for food.

  • Ezek 28:18
    73%

    18 By all your sin, even by your evil trading, you have made your holy places unclean; so I will make a fire come out from you, it will make a meal of you, and I will make you as dust on the earth before the eyes of all who see you.

  • Ezek 16:40
    73%

    40 And they will get together a meeting against you, stoning you with stones and wounding you with their swords.

  • Exod 10:5
    73%

    5 And the face of the earth will be covered with them, so that you will not be able to see the earth: and they will be the destruction of everything which up to now has not been damaged, everything which was not crushed by the ice-storm, and every tree still living in your fields.

  • Job 31:12
    73%

    12 It would be a fire burning even to destruction, and taking away all my produce.

  • Nah 1:10
    73%

    10 For though they are like twisted thorns, and are overcome as with drink, they will come to destruction like stems of grass fully dry.

  • Exod 10:14
    73%

    14 And the locusts went up over all the land of Egypt, resting on every part of the land, in very great numbers; such an army of locusts had never been seen before, and never will be again.

  • Isa 10:16
    73%

    16 For this cause the Lord, the Lord of armies, will make his fat become wasted; and in his inner parts a fire will be lighted like a burning flame.