Nahum 3:16

In 11 translations

BSB

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

KJV

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

WEB

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

ASV

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

LSV

Multiply your merchants above the stars of the heavens, || The cankerworm has stripped off, and flees away.

YLT

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

DBY

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

DRC

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

GNV

Thou hast multiplied thy marchantes aboue the starres of heauen: the locust spoileth and flyeth away.

JPS

Thou hast multiplied thy merchants above the stars of heaven; the canker-worm spreadeth itself, and flieth away.

LXXE

Thou hast multiplied thy merchandise beyond the stars of heaven: the palmerworm has attacked it, and has flown away.

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WLC

הִרְבֵּית֙ רֹֽכְלַ֔יִךְ מִכּוֹכְבֵ֖י הַשָּׁמָ֑יִם יֶ֥לֶק פָּשַׁ֖ט וַיָּעֹֽף׃

LXX-Br

Ἐπλήθυνας τὰς ἐμπορίας σου ὑπὲρ τὰ ἄστρα τοῦ οὐρανοῦ· βροῦχος ὥρμησε, καὶ ἐξεπετάσθη.

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• Nehemiah 9:23You multiplied their descendants like the stars of heaven and brought them to the land You had told their fathers to enter and possess.
• Jeremiah 33:22As 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 15:5And 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.”
• Genesis 22:17I 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.

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