...hast multiplied thy merchants above the stars of heaven: the canker-worm spoileth, and fleeth away. Thy crowned are as the locusts, and thy captains as...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,...

...shall enter in at the windows like a thief.... The sun and the moon shall be dark." NAHUM iii. 17. " Thy crowned are as the locusts, and thy captains as the great grasshoppers, which camp in the hedge in the cold day, but when the sun ariseth they flee away, and their place is not known where...

...xxxiii. 4. Locusts represent especially large armies. " Make thyself many as the locusts." * * * " Thy crowned are as the locusts, and thy captains as the great grasshoppers ;" Nahum iii. 15, 17. If The angel of the bottomless pit. — As the host was said to ascend out of...

...stars of heaven ; The cankerworm spoileth, and ileeth away. Thy crowned are as the locusta, And tliy captains as the great grasshoppers, Which camp in...away, And their place is not known where they are." Nah. iii. 15— \T. The phrase here employed of " great grasshoppers," is supposed to refer to the...

...resolutions formed in their own strength. To such purposes may be applied the beautiful image of Nahum : " As the great grasshoppers, which camp in the hedges in the cold day, but when the sun ahseth they flee away, and their place is not known."! II. The prayer, — " Turn thou me," [may be]...

...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...away, And their place is not known where they are." — NaA. iii. 15 — 17. The extent of the desolation here denounced will be better understood if the...

...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...camp in the hedges in the cold day ; but when the sun riseth, they flee away; and their place is not known where they are,' or were. Whether these words...

...people in the midst of thee are women,' and verse 17, 'Thy captains are the great grasshoppers, which when the sun ariseth they flee away, and their place is not known where they are.' In very deed we seemed all to be smitten by the withering frown of Almighty God, and were all but his...

...men, of whom there are many who, as Nineveh's captains, Nah. iii. 17, are like the " great grashoppers which camp in the hedges in the cold day : but when the sun ariseth, they fly away." They stick close in a time of prosperity, but adversity drives them off; and they remember...

...and tauntingly speaks of the Assyrians as locusts, who are only terrible in the cool of the morning, but when the sun ariseth they flee away, and their place is not known (iii. 17). Nahum's style is equal to the best of the prophetic writings. He is earnest and full of...