Parallel Verses

World English Bible

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

Youngs Literal Translation

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



Cross References

Genesis 15:5

Yahweh brought him outside, and said, "Look now toward the sky, and count the stars, if you are able to count them." He said to Abram, "So shall your seed be."

Genesis 22:17

that I will bless you greatly, and I will multiply your seed greatly like the stars of the heavens, and like the sand which is on the seashore. Your seed will possess the gate of his enemies.

Nehemiah 9:23

You also multiplied their children as the stars of the sky, and brought them into the land concerning which you said to their fathers, that they should go in to possess it.

Jeremiah 33:22

As the army of the sky can't be numbered, neither the sand of the sea measured; so will I multiply the seed of David my servant, and the Levites who minister to me.

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