Parallel Verses

Youngs Literal Translation

Multiply thy merchants above the stars of the heavens, The cankerworm hath stripped off, and doth flee away.

New American Standard Bible

You have increased your traders more than the stars of heaven—
The creeping locust strips and flies away.

King James Version

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

Holman Bible

You have made your merchants
more numerous than the stars of the sky.
The young locust strips the land
and flies away.

International Standard Version

You added to your inventory of businessmen they number more than the stars of heaven. The creeping locust sheds its skin and flies away.

A Conservative Version

Thou have multiplied thy merchants above the stars of heaven. The canker-worm ravages, and flees away.

American Standard Version

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

Amplified


You have increased your traders more than the [visible] stars of heaven—
The creeping locust strips and destroys and then flies away.

Bible in Basic English

Let your traders be increased more than the stars of heaven:

Darby Translation

Thou hast multiplied thy merchants more than the stars of the heavens; the cankerworm spreadeth himself out and flieth away.

Julia Smith Translation

Thou didst multiply thy traffics above the stars of the heavens: the feeder spread out and it will fly away.

King James 2000

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

Lexham Expanded Bible

You have increased your merchants more than the stars of heaven; [like] the locust they will shed [their skin] and fly away.

Modern King James verseion

You have multiplied your merchants above the stars of heaven; the locust larvae shall strip off and fly away.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Thy merchants have been numbered with the stars of heaven: but now shall they spread abroad as the locusts, and flee their way.

NET Bible

Increase your merchants more than the stars of heaven! They are like the young locust which sheds its skin and flies away.

New Heart English Bible

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

The Emphasized Bible

Though thou have multiplied thy foot-soldiers beyond the stars of the heavens, the grass locust, hath stript itself and flown away!

Webster

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

World English Bible

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

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
רכל 
Rakal 
Usage: 17

above the stars
כּוכב 
Kowkab 
Usage: 37

of heaven
שׁמה שׁמים 
Shamayim 
Usage: 420

ילק 
Yekeq 
Usage: 9

References

Morish

Smith

Context Readings

Nineveh's Defenders Will Flee

15 There consume thee doth a fire, Cut thee off doth a sword, It doth consume thee as a cankerworm! Make thyself heavy as the cankerworm, Make thyself heavy as the locust. 16 Multiply thy merchants above the stars of the heavens, The cankerworm hath stripped off, and doth flee away. 17 Thy crowned ones are as a locust, And thy princes as great grasshoppers, That encamp in hedges in a day of cold, The sun hath risen, and it doth flee away, And not known is its place where they are.



Cross References

Genesis 15:5

and He bringeth him out without, and saith, 'Look attentively, I pray thee, towards the heavens, and count the stars, if thou art able to count them;' and He saith to him, 'Thus is thy seed.'

Genesis 22:17

that blessing I bless thee, and multiplying I multiply thy seed as stars of the heavens, and as sand which is on the sea-shore; and thy seed doth possess the gate of his enemies;

Nehemiah 9:23

And their sons Thou hast multiplied as the stars of the heavens, and bringest them in unto the land that Thou hast said to their fathers to go in to possess.

Jeremiah 33:22

As the host of the heavens is not numbered, Nor the sand of the sea measured, So I multiply the seed of David My servant, And the Levites My ministers.'

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