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Nahum 3:15

dThere shall the fire devour thee; the sword shall cut thee off, it shall eat thee up like the e*cankerworm: fmake thyself many as the cankerworm, make thyself many as the locusts.

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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d:

Nahum 3:13 Behold, thy people in the midst of thee are women: the gates of thy land shall be set wide open unto thine enemies: the fire shall devour thy bars.

Nahum 3:3 The horseman lifteth up both the bright sword and the glittering spear: and there is a multitude of slain, and a great number of carcases; and there is none end of their corpses; they stumble upon their corpses:

Zephaniah 2:13 And he will stretch out his hand against the north, and destroy Assyria; and will make Nineveh a desolation, and dry like a wilderness.

Ezekiel 31:12 And strangers, the terrible of the nations, have cut him off, and have left him: upon the mountains and in all the valleys his branches are fallen, and his boughs are broken by all the rivers of the land; and all the people of the earth are gone down from his shadow, and have left him.

Ezekiel 32:22 Asshur is there and all her company: his graves are about him: all of them slain, fallen by the sword:

Ezekiel 32:23 Whose graves are set in the sides of the pit, and her company is round about her grave: all of them slain, fallen by the sword, which caused terror in the land of the living.

e:

Joel 2:25 And I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten, the cankerworm, and the caterpiller, and the palmerworm, my great army which I sent among you.

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cankerworm-hopping locust.

f:

Psalms 33:16 There is no king saved by the multitude of an host: a mighty man is not delivered by much strength.

Psalms 33:17 An horse is a vain thing for safety: neither shall he deliver any by his great strength.

Proverbs 21:30 There is no wisdom nor understanding nor counsel against the LORD.

Joel 1:4 That which the palmerworm hath left hath the locust eaten; and that which the locust hath left hath the cankerworm eaten; and that which the cankerworm hath left hath the caterpiller eaten.

Joel 3:14 Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision: for the day of the LORD is near in the valley of decision.

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in the very fortresses.

either literally, or figuratively, the wrath of the enemy hot as fire, or the pestilence, or all together.

their wars, (after all that the Scythians have done against thee,) these shall utterly destroy thee.

this tells us the manner how the Ninevites shall be destroyed, they shall be eaten up.

either the enemy shall as easily eat thee up as the cankerworm eats the green herb, or thou shalt as soon be devoured as canker-worms are destroyed by storms, rain, fire, or change of weather.

they are innumerable, be thou so if thou canst be, all will be to no purpose.

the same irony repeated: when Ninevites have done all they can, they shall as fully and suddenly be destroyed as these vermin are.