Nahum 3:16
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“You have multiplied your merchants more than the stars of the sky. The young locust strips the land and flies away.”
A short, plain-language explanation of Nahum 3:16 goes here — the kind of answer a reader (or an AI assistant) can quote in one breath. Original meaning coming soon.
“You have multiplied your merchants more than the stars of the sky. The young locust strips the land and flies away.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“Thou hast multiplied thy merchants above the stars of heaven: the cankerworm spoileth, and flieth away.”
King James Version · Public Domain“Thou hast multiplied thy merchants above the stars of heaven: the canker-worm ravageth, and fleeth away.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“Multiply thy merchants above the stars of the heavens, The cankerworm hath stripped off, and doth flee away.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Nahum 3:16 — 4 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Genesis 15:5And the LORD took him outside and said, “Now look to the heavens and count the stars, if you are able.” Then He told him, “So shall your offspring be.”
- Genesis 22:17I will surely bless you, and I will multiply your descendants like the stars in the sky and the sand on the seashore. Your descendants will possess the gates of their enemies.
- Nehemiah 9:23You multiplied their descendants like the stars of heaven and brought them to the land You had told their fathers to enter and possess.
- Jeremiah 33:22As the hosts of heaven cannot be counted and as the sand on the seashore cannot be measured, so too will I multiply the descendants of My servant David and the Levites who minister before Me.”
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