Nahum 3:16

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

You increased your merchants more than the stars of the heavens. The locust sheds its skin and flies away.

Cross References

Genesis 15:5

He brought him outside and said, “Look toward heaven and count the stars, if you are able to count them.” Then he said to him, “So shall your descendants be.”

Genesis 22:17

I will indeed bless you, and I will make your offspring as numerous as the stars of heaven and as the sand that is on the seashore. And your offspring shall possess the gate of their enemies,

Nehemiah 9:23

You multiplied their descendants like the stars of heaven and brought them into the land that you had told their ancestors to enter and possess.

Psalm 105:34

He spoke, and the locusts came, and young locusts without number;

Isaiah 23:8

Who has planned this against Tyre, the bestower of crowns, whose merchants were princes, whose traders were the honored of the earth?

Jeremiah 33:22

Just as the host of heaven cannot be numbered and the sands of the sea cannot be measured, so I will increase the offspring of my servant David and the Levites who minister to me.

Joel 1:4

What the cutting locust left, the swarming locust has eaten; what the swarming locust left, the hopping locust has eaten; and what the hopping locust left, the destroying locust has eaten.