Parallel Verses
American Standard Version
Thou hast multiplied thy merchants above the stars of heaven: the canker-worm ravageth, and fleeth away.
New American Standard Bible
The creeping locust
King James Version
Thou hast multiplied thy merchants above the stars of heaven: the cankerworm spoileth, and flieth away.
Holman Bible
more numerous than the stars of the sky.
The young locust strips
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.
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.
Youngs Literal Translation
Multiply thy merchants above the stars of the heavens, The cankerworm hath stripped off, and doth flee away.
Themes
Cankerworm » Sent as a judgment
Commerce » Carried on by » Ninevites
Interlinear
References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Nahum 3:16
Verse Info
Context Readings
Nineveh's Defenders Will Flee
15 There 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. 16 Thou hast multiplied thy merchants above the stars of heaven: the canker-worm ravageth, and fleeth away. 17 Thy 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.
Phrases
Cross References
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 seashore. 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.
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.