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  • Nahum 3:17
    New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures (Study Edition)
    • 17 Your guards are like the locust,

      And your officers like a locust swarm.

      They camp in the stone pens on a cold day,

      But when the sun shines, they fly away;

      And no one knows where they are.

  • Nahum 3:17
    New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures
    • 17 Your guards are like the locust,

      And your officers like a locust swarm.

      They camp in the stone pens on a cold day,

      But when the sun shines, they fly away;

      And no one knows where they are.

  • Nahum 3:17
    New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures—With References
    • 17 Your guardsmen are like the locust,* and your recruiting officers like the locust swarm.* They are camping in the stone pens in a cold day. The sun itself has but to shine forth, and away they certainly flee; and their place is really unknown where they are.+

  • Nahum 3:17
    The Bible in Living English
    • 17 Your policemen are like grasshoppers and your clerks like young grasshoppers that camp in the hedges on a cold day; the sun is up and off they go, and there is no knowing what place they were in.

  • Nahum 3:17
    American Standard Version
    • 17 Thy princes are as the locusts, and thy marshals as the swarms of grasshoppers, which encamp in the hedges in the cold day, but when the sun ariseth they flee away, and their place is not known where they are.

  • Nahum 3:17
    King James Version
    • 17 Thy crowned are as the locusts, and thy captains as the great grasshoppers, which camp in the hedges in the cold day, but when the sun ariseth they flee away, and their place is not known where they are.

  • Nahum
    Watch Tower Publications Index 1986-2025
    • 3:17 it-2 261

  • Nahum
    Watch Tower Publications Index 1930-1985
    • 3:17 g84 11/22 24; ad 1072; w34 156

  • Nahum
    Research Guide for Jehovah’s Witnesses—2019 Edition
    • 3:17

      Insight, Volume 2, p. 261

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