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NAHUM
- 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.
- Thou hast multiplied thy merchants above the stars of heaven:
- The cankerworm spoileth, and fleeth away.
- 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.
- Thy shepherds slumber, O king of Assyria: thy nobles shall dwell in the dust:
- Thy people is scattered upon the mountains, and no man gathereth them.
- There is no healing of thy bruise; thy wound is grievous:
- All that hear the bruit of thee shall clap the hands over thee:
- For upon whom hath not thy wickedness passed continually?
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