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.
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.
13 Look at your troops- they are all women! The gates of your land are wide open to your enemies; fire has consumed their bars.
14 Draw water for the siege, strengthen your defenses! Work the clay, tread the mortar, repair the brickwork!
15 There the fire will devour you; the sword will cut you down and, like grasshoppers, consume you. Multiply like grasshoppers, multiply like locusts!
16 You 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.
17 Your guards are like locusts, your officials like swarms of locusts that settle in the walls on a cold day- but when the sun appears they fly away, and no one knows where.
18 O king of Assyria, your shepherds slumber; your nobles lie down to rest. Your people are scattered on the mountains with no one to gather them.
3:16Thou hast multiplied thy merchants above the stars of heaven: the cankerworm spoileth, and fleeth away.
3:16Thou hast multiplied thy merchants above the stars of heaven: the canker-worm ravageth, and fleeth away.
3:16Thou hast multiplied thy merchandises above the stars of heaven: the bruchus hath spread himself and flown away.
3:16Thou hast multiplied thy merchants more than the stars of the heavens; the cankerworm spreadeth himself out and flieth away.
3:16Thou hast multiplied thy merchants above the stars of heaven: the cankerworm spoileth, and flieth away.
3:16Thou hast multiplied thy merchants above the stars of heaven: the canker-worm spoileth, and flieth away.
3:16You have increased your merchants more than the stars of the skies. The grasshopper strips, and flees away.
3:16Multiply thy merchants above the stars of the heavens, The cankerworm hath stripped off, and doth flee away.
3:16You have multiplied your merchants above the stars of heaven: the cankerworm spoils, and flees away.