Nah.3.15

Nahum 3:15

KJV

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.

Judgment on Nineveh

Cross References

Isaiah 66:15

KJV

For, behold, the Lord will come with fire, and with his chariots like a whirlwind, to render his anger with fury, and his rebuke with flames of fire.

Final Judgments against the Wicked

Joy in Jerusalem’s Future

Isaiah 66:16

KJV

For by fire and by his sword will the Lord plead with all flesh: and the slain of the Lord shall be many.

Final Judgments against the Wicked

Joy in Jerusalem’s Future

Jeremiah 51:14

KJVGOD

The Lord of hosts hath sworn by himself, saying, Surely I will fill thee with men, as with caterpillers; and they shall lift up a shout against thee.

Judgment on Babylon

Babylon Judged for Sins against Israel

Joel 1:4

KJVGOD

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.

The Invasion of Locusts

The Devastation of Locusts

Amos 7:1

KJV

Thus hath the Lord God shewed unto me; and, behold, he formed grasshoppers in the beginning of the shooting up of the latter growth; and, lo, it was the latter growth after the king’s mowings.

The Locusts, Fire, and Plumb Line

Nahum 2:13

KJVGOD

Behold, I am against thee, saith the Lord of hosts, and I will burn her chariots in the smoke, and the sword shall devour thy young lions: and I will cut off thy prey from the earth, and the voice of thy messengers shall no more be heard.

The Overthrow of Nineveh

Nahum 3:13

KJV

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.