Nahum 3:16

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

More merchants are in your city than there are stars in the sky— but they are like locusts that eat everything, then fly away.

Cross References

Genesis 15:5

Then the LORD took Abram outside and said, “Look at the sky and see if you can count the stars. That's how many descendants you will have.”

Genesis 22:17

“I will bless you and give you such a large family, that some day your descendants will be more numerous than the stars in the sky or the grains of sand along the beach. They will defeat their enemies and take over the cities where their enemies live.

Nehemiah 9:23

You brought them into the land that you had promised their ancestors, and you blessed their nation with people who outnumbered the stars in the sky.

Psalm 105:34

God gave the command, and more grasshoppers came than could be counted.

Isaiah 23:8

its merchants were kings honoured all over the world. Who planned to destroy Tyre?

Jeremiah 33:22

and there will be more descendants of David and of the priests from the Levi tribe than stars in the sky or grains of sand on the beach.

Joel 1:4

Swarm after swarm of locusts has attacked our crops, eating everything in sight.