Nahum 3:16

Good News Translation

You produced more merchants than there are stars in the sky! But now they are gone, like locusts that spread their wings and fly away.

Cross References

Genesis 15:5

The Lord took him outside and said, “Look at the sky and try to count the stars; you will have as many descendants as that.”

Genesis 22:17

I promise that I will give you as many descendants as there are stars in the sky or grains of sand along the seashore. Your descendants will conquer their enemies.

Nehemiah 9:23

You gave them as many children as there are stars in the sky, and let them conquer and live in the land that you had promised their ancestors to give them.

Psalm 105:34

He commanded, and the locusts came, countless millions of them;

Isaiah 23:8

Who was it that planned to bring all this on Tyre, that imperial city, whose merchant princes were the most honored men on earth?

Jeremiah 33:22

I will increase the number of descendants of my servant David and the number of priests from the tribe of Levi, so that it will be as impossible to count them as it is to count the stars in the sky or the grains of sand on the seashore.”

Joel 1:4

Swarm after swarm of locusts settled on the crops; what one swarm left, the next swarm devoured.