“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.”
There the fire will devour you; the sword will cut you off; it will devour you like the locust; multiply yourselves like the locust; multiply like the grasshopper—the locusts and grasshoppers, symbols of devouring plague and insatiable consumption, turn the tables on Nineveh's own predatory nature. Nineveh, which consumed others like a lion, will be consumed like insects. The judgment employs poetic reversal: the consumer becomes the consumed.
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