Nahum 3:16

God's Word

You have produced more businessmen than there are stars in the sky. ⌞They are⌟ like locusts that attack and then fly away.

Cross References

Genesis 15:5

He took Abram outside and said, “Now look up at the sky and count the stars, if you are able to count them.” He also said to him, “That’s how many descendants you will have!”

Genesis 22:17

I will certainly bless you and make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and the grains of sand on the seashore. Your descendants will take possession of their enemies’ cities.

Nehemiah 9:23

You made their children as numerous as the stars in the sky. You brought them into the land you told their parents to enter and possess.

Psalm 105:34

He spoke, and countless locusts and grasshoppers came.

Isaiah 23:8

Who planned such a thing against Tyre, the city that produced kings? Its merchants are princes. Its traders are among the honored people of the world.

Jeremiah 33:22

I will multiply the descendants of my servant David and the Levites who serve me like the stars of heaven that cannot be counted and the sand on the seashore that cannot be measured.”

Joel 1:4

What young locusts leave, mature locusts will eat. What mature locusts leave, adult locusts will eat. What adult locusts leave, grasshoppers will eat.