Graphic Bible · Scene 16 of 19

Empty baskets and folded market cloth lie beside stripped plants as insects fly away beneath fading stars.
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Nahum 3:16

Merchants Strip and Depart

The City of Bloodshed Has No Comforter · Nahum 3

Story guide: The emptied market goods and stripped plants illustrate merchants compared with locusts that consume and then depart.

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16You multiplied your merchants more than the stars of the heavens; the locust strips bare and flies away.

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