Nahum 3:16

New Century Version

Your traders are more than the stars in the sky, but like locusts, they strip the land and then fly away.

Cross References

Jeremiah 33:22

But I will give many descendants to my servant David and to the family group of Levi who serve me in the Temple. They will be as many as the stars in the sky that no one can count. They will be as many as the grains of sand on the seashore that no one can measure.”

Nehemiah 9:23

You made their children as many as the stars in the sky, and you brought them into the land that you told their ancestors to enter and take over.

Genesis 22:17

I will surely bless you and give you many descendants. They will be as many as the stars in the sky and the sand on the seashore, and they will capture the cities of their enemies.

Genesis 15:5

Then God led Abram outside and said, “Look at the sky. There are so many stars you cannot count them. Your descendants also will be too many to count.”

Psalm 105:34

He spoke and grasshoppers came; the locusts were too many to count.

Isaiah 23:8

Who planned Tyre’s destruction? Tyre made others rich. Its merchants were treated like princes, and its traders were greatly respected.

Joel 1:4

What the cutting locusts have left, the swarming locusts have eaten; what the swarming locusts have left, the hopping locusts have eaten, and what the hopping locusts have left, the destroying locusts have eaten.