Nahum 3:16 “You have multiplied your merchants more than the stars of the sky. The…”

Nahum 3:16

You have multiplied your merchants more than the stars of the sky. The young locust strips the land and flies away.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Thou hast multiplied thy merchants above the stars of heaven: the cankerworm spoileth, and flieth away.

World English Bible

You have increased your merchants more than the stars of the skies. The grasshopper strips and flees away.

American Standard Version

Thou hast multiplied thy merchants above the stars of heaven: the canker-worm ravageth, and fleeth away.

Geneva Bible 1599

Thou hast multiplied thy marchantes aboue the starres of heauen: the locust spoileth and flyeth away.

Darby Translation

Thou hast multiplied thy merchants more than the stars of the heavens; the cankerworm spreadeth himself out and flieth away.

Young's Literal Translation

Multiply thy merchants above the stars of the heavens, The cankerworm hath stripped off, and doth flee away.

Bible in Basic English

Let your traders be increased more than the stars of heaven:

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Cross references

“above”

Genesis 15:5 Genesis 22:17 Nehemiah 9:23 Jeremiah 33:22

Genesis 15:5 · BSB

And the LORD took him outside and said, “Now look to the heavens and count the stars, if you are able.” Then He told him, “So shall your offspring be.”

Genesis 22:17 · BSB

I will surely bless you, and I will multiply your descendants like the stars in the sky and the sand on the seashore. Your descendants will possess the gates of their enemies.

Nehemiah 9:23 · BSB

You multiplied their descendants like the stars of heaven and brought them to the land You had told their fathers to enter and possess.

Jeremiah 33:22 · BSB

As the hosts of heaven cannot be counted and as the sand on the seashore cannot be measured, so too will I multiply the descendants of My servant David and the Levites who minister before Me.”

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

15There the fire will devour you; the sword will cut you down and consume you like a young locust. Make yourself many like the young locust; make yourself many like the swarming locust!

17Your 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.

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