Nahum 3:16

New International Reader's Version

You have more traders than the number of stars in the sky. But like locusts they strip the land. Then they fly away.

Cross References

Genesis 15:5

The Lord took Abram outside and said, “Look up at the sky. Count the stars, if you can.” Then he said to him, “That’s how many children will be born into your family.”

Genesis 22:17

So I will certainly bless you. I will make the children born into your family as many as the stars in the sky. I will make them as many as the grains of sand on the seashore. They will take over the cities of their enemies.

Nehemiah 9:23

You gave them as many children as there are stars in the sky. You told their parents to enter the land. You told them to take it over. And you brought their children into it.

Psalm 105:34

He spoke, and the locusts came. There were so many of them they couldn’t be counted.

Isaiah 23:8

Tyre was a city that produced kings. Its traders were princes. They were honored all over the earth. So who planned to destroy such a city?

Jeremiah 33:22

Here is what I will do for my servant David. And here is what I will do for the Levites who serve me. I will make their children after them as many as the stars in the sky. And I will make them as many as the grains of sand on the seashore. It will be impossible to count them.”

Joel 1:4

The giant locusts have eaten what the common locusts have left. The young locusts have eaten what the giant locusts have left. And other locusts have eaten what the young locusts have left.