Nahum 3:16

Translations

Modern

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

Traditional

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

Literal

You have multiplied your merchants above the stars of the heavens; the young locust strips it and flies away.

Latin

Plures fecisti negotiationes tuas quam stellæ sint cæli; bruchus expansus est, et avolavit.

Original

Hebrew

English

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

Notes

Nahum 3:16

Assyrian merchants spread across the Near East like locusts, bringing great wealth to Nineveh. However, like locusts that eat and leave, the merchants took their goods and departed during Nineveh's difficult times, leaving the people in need.

Events

Prophecies of Nahumc. 663 BC

Related verses

Nehemiah 9:23
You multiplied their descendants like the stars of heaven and brought them to the land You had told their fathers to enter and possess.
Genesis 22:17
I will surely bless you, and I will multiply your descendants like the stars in the sky and the sand on the seashore. Your descendants will possess the gates of their enemies.
Jeremiah 33:22
As the hosts of heaven cannot be counted and as the sand on the seashore cannot be measured, so too will I multiply the descendants of My servant David and the Levites who minister before Me.”
Genesis 15:5
And the LORD took him outside and said, “Now look to the heavens and count the stars, if you are able.” Then He told him, “So shall your offspring be.”

Glossary

Book of Nahum Locusts Merchant

Topics

Cankerworm: Sent As a Judgment Commerce: Carried on by Ninevites Commerce: Ninevites Insects: Cankerworm Merchant: General Scriptures Concerning Nineveh: Commercial

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