Nahum 3:16

You have multiplied your merchants more than the stars in the heavens; but they are like young locusts: they plunder the land and then fly away. 1

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

In Context

15Fire will devour you there, and the sword will destroy you. It will devour you as young locusts devour everything. 1 Make yourselves as many as the young locusts, as many as the full-grown locusts. 1

17Your princes are as many as the full-grown locusts, and your generals are like swarms of them 1 that camp in the walls on a cold day. 1 But when the sun rises they fly away to no one knows where. 1

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Cross References

Genesis 15:5Then he brought him outside, and said, “Look toward heaven, and number the stars, if you are able to number them.” Then he said to him, “So will your descendants be.”

Nehemiah 9:23You made their children as numerous as the stars of heaven, and you brought them into the land that you told their ancestors to go in and possess.

Matthew Henry on Nahum 3:9-19

The Judgment of Nineveh. ( b. c. 710.) 8 Art thou better than populous No, that was situate among the rivers, that had the waters round about it, whose rampart was the sea, and her wall was from the sea? 9 Ethiopia and Egypt were her strength, and it was infinite; Put and Lubim were thy helpers. 10 Yet was she carried away, she went into captivity: her young children also were dashed in pieces at the top of all the streets: and they cast lots for her honourable men, and all her great men were bound in chains. 11… Read the whole commentary →

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