Nahum 3:16 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

¹⁶ Behold ye among the nations, and see: wonder, and be astonished: for a work is done in your days, which no man will believe when it shall be told.

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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

And he thought him forth abroad, and said to him: Look up to heaven and number the stars, if thou canst. And he said to him: So shall thy seed be.

Genesis 22:17

7 I will bless thee, and I will multiply thy seed as the stars of heaven, and as the sand that is by the seashore: thy seed shall possess the gates of their enemies.

Nehemiah 9:23

8 But after they had rest, they returned to do evil in thy sight : and thou leftest them in the hand of their enemies, and they had dominion over them. Then they returned, and cried to thee: and thou heardest from heaven, and deliveredst them many times in thy mercies.

Psalm 105:34

1 He opened the rock, and waters flowed: rivers ran down in the dry land.

Isaiah 23:8

6 Take a harp, go about the city, thou harlot that hast been forgotten: sing well, sing many a song, that thou mayst be remembered.

Jeremiah 33:22

Yet hear the word of the Lord, O Sedecias king of Juda: Thus saith the Lord to thee: Thou shalt not die by the sword.

Joel 1:4

2 The vineyard is confounded, and the fig tree hath languished: the pomegranate tree, and the palm tree, and the apple tree, and all the trees of the field are withered: because joy is withdrawn from the children of men.