Nahum 3:16 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁶ You increased your merchants more than the stars of the heavens. The locust sheds its skin 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

Jeremiah 33:22

Just as the host of heaven cannot be numbered and the sands of the sea cannot be measured, so I will increase the offspring of my servant David and the Levites who minister to me.

Nehemiah 9:23

You multiplied their descendants like the stars of heaven and brought them into the land that you had told their ancestors to enter and possess.

Genesis 22:17

I will indeed bless you, and I will make your offspring as numerous as the stars of heaven and as the sand that is on the seashore. And your offspring shall possess the gate of their enemies,

Genesis 15:5

He brought him outside and said, “Look toward heaven and count the stars, if you are able to count them.” Then he said to him, “So shall your descendants be.”

Psalm 105:34

He spoke, and the locusts came, and young locusts without number;

Isaiah 23:8

Who has planned this against Tyre, the bestower of crowns, whose merchants were princes, whose traders were the honored of the earth?

Joel 1:4

What the cutting locust left, the swarming locust has eaten; what the swarming locust left, the hopping locust has eaten; and what the hopping locust left, the destroying locust has eaten.