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Nahum 3:16

American Standard Version

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

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Nahum 3:16 in other translations

You have increased your merchants more than the stars of the skies. The grasshopper strips, and flees away.

Nahum 3:16 · World English Bible

Nahum 3:16 in context

  1. 14Draw thee water for the siege; strengthen thy fortresses; go into the clay, and tread the mortar; make strong the brickkiln.
  2. 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.
  3. 16Thou hast multiplied thy merchants above the stars of heaven: the canker-worm ravageth, and fleeth away.
  4. 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.
  5. 18Thy shepherds slumber, O king of Assyria; thy nobles are at rest; thy people are scattered upon the mountains, and there is none to gather them.