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Nahum

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Your 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.

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Verse part Definition: Part of speech: Strong's: Hebrew: Transliteration:
Your guardsmen perhaps consecrated ones, princes Noun H4502 מִנְּזָרַ֙יִךְ֙ min·ne·za·ra·yich
are like the swarming locust. (a kind of) locust Noun H697 כָּֽאַרְבֶּ֔ה ka·'ar·beh,
Your marshals a scribe, marshal Noun H2951 וְטַפְסְרַ֖יִךְ ve·taf·se·ra·yich
are like hordes locusts Noun H1462 כְּגֹ֣וב ke·go·vv
of grasshoppers locusts Noun H1462 גֹּבָ֑י go·vai;
Settling to decline, bend down, encamp Verb H2583 הַֽחֹונִ֤ים ha·cho·v·nim
in the stone walls a wall Noun H1448 בַּגְּדֵרֹות֙ bag·ge·de·ro·vt
on a cold cold Noun H7135 קָרָ֔ה ka·rah,
day. day Noun H3117 בְּיֹ֣ום be·yo·vm
The sun sun Noun H8121 שֶׁ֤מֶשׁ she·mesh
rises to rise, come forth Verb H2224 זָֽרְחָה֙ za·re·chah
and they flee, to retreat, flee, depart, stray, wander, flutter Verb H5074 וְנֹודַ֔ד ve·no·v·dad,
And the place a standing place, place Noun H4725 מְקֹומֹ֖ו me·ko·v·mov
where where? Int H335 אַיָּֽם׃ ai·yam.
they are is not known. to know Verb H3045 נֹודַ֥ע no·v·da

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New American Standard Bible 1995 Your 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.
King James Bible Your guardsmen Thy crowned are like as the swarming locust. Your marshals are like hordes of grasshoppers Settling locusts, and thy captains as the great grasshoppers, which camp in the stone walls on a hedges in the cold day. The day, but when the sun rises and ariseth they flee, And the flee away, and their place is not known where they are is not known.are.
Hebrew Greek English Your 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.