Nahum 3:16
World English Bible (WEB)
You have increased your merchants more than the stars of the skies. The grasshopper strips and flees away.
In context
14 Draw water for the siege. Strengthen your fortresses. Go into the clay, and tread the mortar. Make the brick kiln strong.
15 There the fire will devour you. The sword will cut you off. It will devour you like the grasshopper. Multiply like grasshoppers. Multiply like the locust.
16 You have increased your merchants more than the stars of the skies. The grasshopper strips and flees away.
17 Your guards are like the locusts, and your officials like the swarms of locusts, which settle on the walls on a cold day, but when the sun appears, they flee away, and their place is not known where they are.
18 Your shepherds slumber, king of Assyria. Your nobles lie down. Your people are scattered on the mountains, and there is no one to gather them.
Nahum 3:16 in every translation
- WEB World English Bible
- You have increased your merchants more than the stars of the skies. The grasshopper strips and flees away.
- KJV King James Version
- Thou hast multiplied thy merchants above the stars of heaven: the cankerworm spoileth, and flieth away.
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- You have multiplied your merchants more than the stars of the sky. The young locust strips the land and flies away.
- ASV American Standard Version
- Thou hast multiplied thy merchants above the stars of heaven: the canker-worm ravageth, and fleeth away.
- YLT Young's Literal Translation
- Multiply thy merchants above the stars of the heavens, The cankerworm hath stripped off, and doth flee away.
- DBY Darby Translation
- Thou hast multiplied thy merchants more than the stars of the heavens; the cankerworm spreadeth himself out and flieth away.
- WBS Webster Bible
- Thou hast multiplied thy merchants above the stars of heaven: the canker-worm spoileth, and flieth away.