Nahum 3:16 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

¹⁶ You have made your merchants more numerous than the stars of the sky. The young locust strips  the land and flies away.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁶ Thou hast multiplied thy merchants above the stars of heaven: the cankerworm spoileth, and fleeth away.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁶ You increased your merchants more than the [visible] stars of the heavens. The swarming locust spreads itself and destroys, and then flies away.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁶ Thou hast multiplied thy merchants above the stars of heaven: the canker-worm ravageth, and fleeth away.

Common English Bible

¹⁶ You boasted more traders than the heavens have stars. The locust sheds its skin and flies away.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁶ You have made more negotiations than there are stars in the sky. The beetle has spread out and flown away.

Nahum 3:16 Cross References

Genesis 15:5

He took him outside and said, ‘Look at the sky and count the stars, if you are able to count them.’ Then he said to him, ‘Your offspring will be that numerous.’

Genesis 22:17

I will indeed bless you  and make your offspring as numerous as the stars of the sky  and the sand on the seashore.  Your offspring will possess the city gates of their  enemies.

Nehemiah 9:23

You multiplied their descendants like the stars of the sky and brought them to the land you told their ancestors to go in and possess.

Isaiah 23:8

Who planned this against Tyre, the bestower of crowns, whose traders are princes, whose merchants are the honoured ones of the earth?

Jeremiah 33:22

Even as the stars of heaven cannot be counted, and the sand of the sea cannot be measured,  so too I will make innumerable the descendants of my servant David and the Levites who minister to me.’

Joel 1:4

What the devouring locust  has left, the swarming locust has eaten; what the swarming locust has left, the young locust  has eaten; and what the young locust has left, the destroying locust  has eaten.