Nahum 3:16
Nahum chapter 3 · verse 16 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000Thou hast multiplied thy merchants above the stars of heaven: the canker-worm ravageth, and fleeth away.
KJV
King James Version · 1611Thou hast multiplied thy merchants above the stars of heaven: the cankerworm spoileth, and flieth away.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901Thou hast multiplied thy merchants above the stars of heaven: the canker-worm ravageth, and fleeth away.
Context
v.15There shall the fire devour thee; the sword shall cut thee off; it shall devour thee like the canker-worm: make thyself many as the canker-worm; make thyself many as the locust.
v.16This passage
v.17Thy princes are as the locusts, and thy marshals as the swarms of grasshoppers, which encamp in the hedges in the cold day, but when the sun ariseth they flee away, and their place is not known where they are.
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Jeremiah 33:22
As the host of heaven cannot be numbered, neither the sand of the sea measured; so will I multiply the seed of David my servant, and the Levites that minister unto me.
- Genesis 15:5
And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward heaven, and number the stars, if thou be able to number them: and he said unto him, So shall thy seed be.
- Genesis 22:17
that in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heavens, and as the sand which is upon the sea-shore; and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies;
- Nehemiah 9:23
Their children also multipliedst thou as the stars of heaven, and broughtest them into the land concerning which thou didst say to their fathers, that they should go in to possess it.