Nahum 3:16 - Modern English Version

¹⁶ You have multiplied your merchants more than the stars of heaven. The locust plunders and flies away.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁶ Thou hast multiplied thy merchants above the stars of heaven: the cankerworm spoileth, and fleeth away.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁶ You increased your merchants more than the [visible] stars of the heavens. The swarming locust spreads itself and destroys, and then flies away.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁶ Thou hast multiplied thy merchants above the stars of heaven: the canker-worm ravageth, and fleeth away.

Common English Bible

¹⁶ You boasted more traders than the heavens have stars. The locust sheds its skin and flies away.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁶ You have made more negotiations than there are stars in the sky. The beetle has spread out and flown away.

Nahum 3:16 Tagairtí Cros

Genesis 15:5

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

Genesis 22:17

I will indeed bless you and I will indeed multiply your descendants as the stars of the heavens and as the sand that is on the seashore. Your descendants will possess the gate of their enemies.

Nehemiah 9:23

Their descendants You increased like the stars of heaven, and You brought them into the land, which You had promised to their fathers that they would enter and possess it.

Psalm 105:34

He spoke and locusts came, young locusts without number,

Isaiah 23:8

Who has planned this against Tyre, the crowning city, whose merchants are princes, whose traffickers are the honorable of the earth?

Jeremiah 33:22

As the host of heaven cannot be numbered nor the sand of the sea measured, so I will multiply the seed of David My servant and the Levites that minister to Me.

Joel 1:4

What the fledging locust left, the adult locust has eaten; what the adult locust left, the larval locust has eaten; what the larval locust left, the hopper locust has eaten.