16You have increased your merchants more than the stars of the skies. The grasshopper strips, and flees away.
16You have increased your merchants more than the stars of the skies. The grasshopper strips, and flees away.
13 Behold, your troops in your midst are women. The gates of your land are set wide open to your enemies. The fire has devoured your bars.
14 Draw water for the siege. Strengthen your fortresses. Go into the clay, and tread the mortar. Make the brick kiln strong.
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.
18 Your shepherds slumber, king of Assyria. Your nobles lie down. Your people are scattered on the mountains, and there is no one to gather them.
3:16Thou hast multiplied thy merchants above the stars of heaven: the cankerworm spoileth, and fleeth away.
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.
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.
3:16Multiply 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.