Nahum 3:16

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

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  • Gen 15:5 : 5 He took him outside and said, "Look up at the sky and count the stars, if you are able to count them." Then He added, "So will your descendants be."
  • Gen 22:17 : 17 I will surely bless you and will greatly multiply your offspring like the stars of the heavens and like the sand on the seashore, and your offspring will possess the gates of their enemies.
  • Neh 9:23 : 23 You multiplied their descendants like the stars of heaven and brought them to the land You had promised their ancestors they would enter and take possession of.
  • Jer 33:22 : 22 Just as the stars in the sky cannot be counted and the sand on the seashore cannot be measured, so will I multiply the descendants of David my servant and the Levites who minister before me.

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    15 There the fire will devour you; the sword will cut you down. It will consume you like the young locusts. Multiply yourselves like locusts; increase yourselves like swarming locusts.

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    17 Your crowned guards are like locusts, and your officials are like swarms of locusts camping in the walls on a cold day. When the sun rises, they flee away, and no one knows where they are.

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  • Isa 33:4
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    4 Your plunder will be gathered like the gathering of locusts; people will swarm over it like locusts swarming.

  • Jer 51:13-14
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    13 You who dwell by many waters, rich in treasures, your end has come, the measure of your covetousness.

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    4 What the cutting locust left, the swarming locust has eaten; what the swarming locust left, the hopping locust has eaten; and what the hopping locust left, the destroying locust has eaten.

  • Ps 78:46
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    46 He gave their crops to the caterpillar and the fruit of their labor to the locust.

  • Deut 28:38-39
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    38 You will sow much seed in the field but gather little, because locusts will consume it.

    39 You will plant vineyards and cultivate them, but you will not drink their wine or gather their grapes, for worms will eat them.

  • Deut 28:42
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    42 Swarms of insects will take possession of all your trees and the produce of your land.

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    25 I will restore to you the years that the swarming locust has eaten—the young locust, the destroying locust, and the devouring locust—my great army that I sent among you.

  • Isa 47:15
    72%

    15 This is how it will be for those with whom you have labored, those who have traded with you from your youth; each one wanders to his own way—there is no one to save you.

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    34 He spoke, and locusts came, young locusts without number.

  • Jer 46:23
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    23 They will cut down her forest, declares the Lord, though it is dense. They are more numerous than locusts; they cannot be counted.

  • Isa 14:11
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    11 Your pride has been brought down to Sheol, along with the music of your harps. Beneath you is a bed of maggots, and worms cover you.

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    9 I struck you with blight and mildew; the locust devoured your many gardens, vineyards, fig trees, and olive trees, yet you did not return to Me,' declares the LORD.

  • Rev 18:14-15
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    14 The fruit your soul longed for has departed from you. All your luxurious and splendid things are lost to you, never to be found again.

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  • Jer 5:17
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    17 They will consume your harvest and your bread, devour your sons and daughters, eat your flocks and herds, and consume your vines and fig trees. With the sword, they will destroy your fortified cities in which you trust.

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    4 Though you soar like the eagle and make your nest among the stars, even from there I will bring you down, declares the LORD.

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    2 Your wealth has rotted, and your clothes have become moth-eaten.

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