Nahum 3:17
Parallel Strong's
Berean Study Bible
Your guards are like the swarming locust, and your scribes like clouds of locusts that settle on the walls on a cold day. When the sun rises, they fly away, and no one knows where.

Young's Literal Translation
Thy crowned ones [are] as a locust, And thy princes as great grasshoppers, That encamp in hedges in a day of cold, The sun hath risen, and it doth flee away, And not known is its place where they are.

King James Bible
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].

Hebrew
Your guardsmen
מִנְּזָרַ֙יִךְ֙ (min·nə·zā·ra·yiḵ)
Noun - masculine plural construct | second person feminine singular
Strong's 4502: Perhaps consecrated ones, princes

are like the swarming locust,
כָּֽאַרְבֶּ֔ה (kā·’ar·beh)
Preposition-k, Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 697: (a kind of) locust

and your scribes
וְטַפְסְרַ֖יִךְ (wə·ṭap̄·sə·ra·yiḵ)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine plural construct | second person feminine singular
Strong's 2951: A military governor

like clouds of locusts,
כְּג֣וֹב (kə·ḡō·wḇ)
Preposition-k | Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 1462: The locust

that settle
הַֽחוֹנִ֤ים (ha·ḥō·w·nîm)
Article | Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine plural
Strong's 2583: To incline, to decline, to pitch a, tent, gen, to encamp

on the walls
בַּגְּדֵרוֹת֙ (bag·gə·ḏê·rō·wṯ)
Preposition-b, Article | Noun - feminine plural
Strong's 1448: Enclosure

on a cold
קָרָ֔ה (qā·rāh)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 7135: Coolness

day.
בְּי֣וֹם (bə·yō·wm)
Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 3117: A day

When the sun
שֶׁ֤מֶשׁ (še·meš)
Noun - common singular
Strong's 8121: The sun, the east, a ray, a notched battlement

rises,
זָֽרְחָה֙ (zā·rə·ḥāh)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person feminine singular
Strong's 2224: To irradiate, to rise, to appear

they fly away,
וְנוֹדַ֔ד (wə·nō·w·ḏaḏ)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Pual - Conjunctive perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 5074: To wave to and fro, to rove, flee, to drive away

and no
וְלֹֽא־ (wə·lō-)
Conjunctive waw | Adverb - Negative particle
Strong's 3808: Not, no

one knows
נוֹדַ֥ע (nō·w·ḏa‘)
Verb - Nifal - Perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 3045: To know

where.
אַיָּֽם׃ (’ay·yām)
Interrogative | third person masculine plural
Strong's 335: Where?, how?

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
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