Nahum 3:17

Geneva Bible (1560)

Thy princes are as the grashoppers, and thy captaines as the great grashoppers which remaine in the hedges in the colde day: but when the sunne ariseth, they flee away and their place is not knowen where they are.

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Referenced Verses

  • Jer 51:27 : 27 Set vp a standard in the lande: blowe the trumpets among the nations: prepare the nations against her: call vp the kingdomes of Ararat, Minni, and Ashchenaz against her: appoynt the prince against her: cause horses to come vp as the rough caterpillers.
  • Rev 9:7 : 7 And the forme of the locustes was like vnto horses prepared vnto battel, and on their heads were as it were crownes, like vnto golde, and their faces were like the faces of men.

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    15There 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.

    16Thou hast multiplied thy marchantes aboue the starres of heauen: the locust spoileth and flyeth away.

  • Nah 3:18
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    18Thy shepheardes doe sleepe, O King of Asshur: thy strong men lie downe: thy people is scattered vpon the mountaines, and no man gathereth them.

  • Isa 33:3-4
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    78%

    3At the noise of the tumult, the people fled: at thine exalting the nations were scattered.

    4And your spoyle shall be gathered like the gathering of caterpillers: and he shall go against him like the leaping of grashoppers.

  • Prov 30:27
    76%

    27The grashopper hath no King, yet goe they forth all by bandes:

  • Isa 37:27
    74%

    27Whose inhabitants haue small power, and are afrayd & confounded: they are like the grasse of the field & greene herbe, or grasse on the house tops, or corne blassed afore it be growen.

  • Deut 28:42
    73%

    42All thy trees and fruite of thy land shall the grashopper consume.

  • Amos 7:1
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    1Thus hath the Lorde God shewed vnto mee, and beholde, he formed grashoppers in the beginning of ye shooting vp of the latter grouth: and loe, it was in the latter grouth after the Kings mowing.

  • 2 Kgs 19:26
    72%

    26Whose inhabitants haue small power, and are afraid, & confounded: they are like the grasse of the field, and greene herbe, or grasse on ye house toppes, or as corne blasted before it be growen.

  • Jer 51:14
    72%

    14The Lord of hostes hath sworne by him selfe, saying, Surely I will fill thee with men, as with caterpillers, and they shall cry and shoute against thee.

  • Isa 29:5
    72%

    5Moreouer, the multitude of thy strangers shalbe like small dust, and the multitude of strong men shalbe as chaffe that passeth away, and it shal be in a moment, euen suddenly.

  • Jer 46:23
    72%

    23They shall cut downe her forest, saith the Lord: for they cannot be counted, because they are moe then ye grashoppers, & are innumerable.

  • Isa 7:17-19
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    71%

    17The Lord shall bring vpon thee, and vpon thy people, and vpon thy fathers house (the dayes that haue not come from the day that Ephraim departed from Iudah) euen the King of Asshur.

    18And in that day shall the Lorde hisse for the flie that is at the vttermost part of the floods of Egypt, and for the bee which is in the lande of Asshur,

    19And they shall come and shall light all in the desolate valleys, and in the holes of the rockes, and vpon all thorny places, and vpon all bushy places.

  • Isa 22:3
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    3All thy princes shal flee together from the bowe: they shalbe bound: all that shall be found in thee, shall be bound together, which haue fled from farre.

  • Exod 10:14
    71%

    14So the grashoppers went vp vpon all the land of Egypt, and remained in all quarters of Egypt: so grieuous Grashoppers, like to these were neuer before, neither after them shalbe such.

  • Isa 34:12
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    12The nobles thereof shal call to the kingdome, and there shalbe none, and all the princes thereof shalbe as nothing.

  • Rev 9:7
    70%

    7And the forme of the locustes was like vnto horses prepared vnto battel, and on their heads were as it were crownes, like vnto golde, and their faces were like the faces of men.

  • Joel 2:5
    70%

    5Like the noyse of charrets in the toppes of the mountaines shal they leape, like the noyse of a flame of fire that deuoureth the stubble, and as a mightie people prepared to the battel.

  • Ps 78:46
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    46He gaue also their fruites vnto the caterpiller, and their labour vnto the grassehopper.

  • Amos 1:15
    70%

    15And their King shall go into captiuitie, he and his princes together, saith the Lord.

  • Obad 1:5
    70%

    5Came theeues to thee or robbers by night? howe wast thou brought to silence? woulde they not haue stolen, til they had ynough? if the grape gatherers came to thee, woulde they not leaue some grapes?

  • Ps 129:6
    70%

    6They shalbe as the grasse on the house tops, which withereth afore it commeth forth.

  • Jer 22:22
    69%

    22The wind shall feede all thy pastors, and thy louers shall goe into captiuitie: and then shalt thou be ashamed and confounded of al thy wickednesse.

  • Joel 2:25
    69%

    25And I will render you the yeeres that the grashopper hath eaten, the canker worme and the caterpiller and the palmer worme, my great hoste which I sent among you.

  • Jer 5:17
    69%

    17And they shall eate thine haruest and thy bread: they shall deuoure thy sonnes and thy daughters: they shall eate vp thy sheepe and thy bullocks: they shall eate thy vines and thy figge trees: they shall destroy with the sworde thy fensed cities, wherein thou didest trust.

  • Joel 2:3
    69%

    3A fire deuoureth before him, and behinde him a flame burneth vp: the land is as the garden of Eden before him, & behinde him a desolate wildernesse, so that nothing shal escape him.

  • Joel 1:4
    69%

    4That which is left of ye palmer worme, hath the grashopper eaten, & the residue of ye grashopper hath the canker worme eaten, and the residue of the canker worme hath the caterpiller eaten.

  • Deut 28:38
    69%

    38Thou shalt carie out much seede into the fielde, and shalt gather but litle in: for the grashoppers shall destroy it.

  • Exod 10:5
    69%

    5And they shall couer the face of the earth, that a man can not see the earth: and they shall eate the residue which remaineth vnto you, and hath escaped from the haile: and they shall eate all your trees that bud in the fielde.

  • Hab 2:7
    69%

    7Shall they not rise vp suddenly, that shall bite thee? and awake, that shal stirre thee? and thou shalt be their praye?

  • Isa 3:25
    69%

    25Thy men shall fall by the sworde, and thy strength in the battell.

  • Ps 105:34
    69%

    34He spake, and the grashoppers came, and caterpillers innumerable,

  • Ezek 31:3
    69%

    3Beholde, Asshur was like a cedar in Lebanon with faire branches, & with thicke shadowing boughes, and shot vp very hye, and his toppe was among the thicke boughes.

  • Isa 28:4
    69%

    4For his glorious beautie shall be a fading floure, which is vpon the head of the valley of them that be fatte, and as the hastie fruite afore sommer, which when hee that looketh vpon it, seeth it, while it is in his hand, he eateth it.

  • Jer 51:27
    69%

    27Set vp a standard in the lande: blowe the trumpets among the nations: prepare the nations against her: call vp the kingdomes of Ararat, Minni, and Ashchenaz against her: appoynt the prince against her: cause horses to come vp as the rough caterpillers.

  • Hab 1:8
    69%

    8Their horses also are swifter then the leopards, and are more fierce then the wolues in the euening: and their horsemen are many: & their horsemen shall come from farre: they shall flie as the eagle hasting to meate.

  • Hos 13:3
    69%

    3Therefore they shall bee as the morning cloude, and as the morning dewe that passeth away, as the chaffe that is driuen with a whirlewind out of the floore, and as the smoke that goeth out of the chimney.

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    7Your land is waste: your cities are burnt with fire: strangers deuoure your lande in your presence, and it is desolate like the ouerthrowe of strangers.

  • Isa 31:9
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    18Say vnto the King and to the Queene, Humble yourselues, sit downe, for the crowne of your glorye shall come downe from your heads.

  • Hos 11:6
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    6And the sworde shall fall on his cities, and shall consume his barres, and deuoure them, because of their owne counsels.

  • Ps 109:23
    68%

    23I depart like the shadowe that declineth, and am shaken off as the grashopper.

  • Jer 25:35
    68%

    35And the flight shall faile from the shepherdes, and the escaping from the principall of the flocke.

  • Zeph 3:3
    68%

    3Her princes within her are as roaring lyons: her iudges are as wolues in the euening, which leaue not the bones till the morow.

  • Exod 10:12
    68%

    12After, the Lord said vnto Moses, Stretch out thine hande vpon the lande of Egypt for the grashoppers, that they may come vpon the lande of Egypt, and eate all the herbes of the land, euen all that the haile hath left.

  • Nah 3:12
    68%

    12All thy strong cities shall be like figtrees with the first ripe figs: for if they be shaken, they fall into the mouth of the eater.

  • Lam 4:19
    68%

    19Our persecuters are swifter then the egles of the heauen: they pursued vs vpon the mountaines, and layed waite for vs in the wildernes.