Parallel Verses
Modern King James verseion
You have multiplied your merchants above the stars of heaven; the locust larvae shall strip off and fly 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.
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 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
Rabah
References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Nahum 3:16
Verse Info
Context Readings
Nineveh's Defenders Will Flee
15 There fire shall devour you; the sword shall cut you off, it shall eat you up like the locust. Make yourself as many as the larvae, multiply yourself like the locusts. 16 You have multiplied your merchants above the stars of heaven; the locust larvae shall strip off and fly away. 17 Your rulers are like the locusts, and your officials are a swarm of locusts that camp in the hedges in the cold day; the sun rises, and they flee, and the place where they are is not known.
Phrases
Cross References
Genesis 15:5
And He brought him outside and said, Look now toward the heavens and count the stars, if you are able to count them. And He said to him, So shall your seed be.
Genesis 22:17
that in blessing I will bless you, and in multiplying I will multiply your seed like the stars of the heavens, and as the sand which is upon the seashore. And your Seed shall possess the gate of His enemies.
Nehemiah 9:23
And You multiplied their sons like the stars of the heavens, and brought them into the land concerning which You had promised to their fathers that they should go in to possess it.
Jeremiah 33:22
As the host of the heavens cannot be numbered, nor the sand of the sea measured, so I will multiply the seed of David My servant and the Levites who minister to Me.