16You have multiplied your merchants above the stars of heaven: the cankerworm spoils, and flees away.


In Context

13 Behold, your people in the middle of you are women: the gates of your land shall be set wide open to your enemies: the fire shall devour your bars.

14 Draw you waters for the siege, fortify your strong holds: go into clay, and tread the mortar, make strong the brick kiln.

15 There shall the fire devour you; the sword shall cut you off, it shall eat you up like the cankerworm: make yourself many as the cankerworm, make yourself many as the locusts.

16 You have multiplied your merchants above the stars of heaven: the cankerworm spoils, and flees away.

17 Your crowned are as the locusts, and your captains as the great grasshoppers, which camp in the hedges in the cold day, but when the sun rises they flee away, and their place is not known where they are.

18 Your shepherds slumber, O king of Assyria: your nobles shall dwell in the dust: your people is scattered on the mountains, and no man gathers them.

Nahum 3:16 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

3:16Thou hast multiplied thy merchants above the stars of heaven: the cankerworm spoileth, and fleeth away.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

3:16You have increased the number of your merchants till they are more than the stars of the sky, but like locusts they strip the land and then fly away.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

3:16Thou hast multiplied thy merchants above the stars of heaven: the canker-worm ravageth, and fleeth away.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

3:16Thou hast multiplied thy merchandises above the stars of heaven: the bruchus hath spread himself and flown away.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

3:16Thou hast multiplied thy merchants more than the stars of the heavens; the cankerworm spreadeth himself out and flieth away.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

3:16Thou hast multiplied thy merchants above the stars of heaven: the cankerworm spoileth, and flieth away.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

3:16Thou hast multiplied thy merchants above the stars of heaven: the canker-worm spoileth, and flieth away.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

3:16You have increased your merchants more than the stars of the skies. The grasshopper strips, and flees away.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

3:16Multiply thy merchants above the stars of the heavens, The cankerworm hath stripped off, and doth flee away.