Nahum 3:16

KJV1611 – Modern English

You have multiplied your merchants more than the stars of heaven: the locust spoils, and flies away.

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  • Gen 15:5 : 5 And he brought him outside, and said, Look now toward heaven, and count the stars, if you are able to number them: and he said to him, So shall your offspring be.
  • Gen 22:17 : 17 That in blessing I will bless you, and in multiplying I will multiply your descendants as the stars of the heavens, and as the sand which is upon the seashore; and your descendants shall possess the gate of their enemies;
  • Neh 9:23 : 23 You also multiplied their children as the stars of heaven, and brought them into the land which You had promised to their forefathers they would enter and possess.
  • Jer 33:22 : 22 As the host of heaven cannot be numbered, nor the sand of the sea measured: so will I multiply the descendants of David my servant, and the Levites that minister to me.

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    17Your crowned are as the locusts, and your captains as the great grasshoppers, which camp in the hedges in the cold day, but when the sun arises they flee away, and their place is not known where they are.

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  • Isa 33:4
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    4Your spoil will be gathered like the gathering of the caterpillar; as locusts run to and fro, he will run upon them.

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

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  • Deut 28:38-39
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    38You shall carry much seed out into the field, and shall gather but little in; for the locust shall consume it.

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    42All your trees and fruit of your land shall the locust consume.

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    25And I will restore to you the years that the locust has eaten, the cankerworm, and the caterpillar, and the palmerworm, my great army which I sent among you.

  • Isa 47:15
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    15Thus shall they be to you with whom you have labored, your merchants from your youth; they shall wander each one to his own quarter; none shall save you.

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    34He spoke, and the locusts came, and caterpillars, and that without number,

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    23They shall cut down her forest, says the LORD, though it cannot be comprehended; because they are more numerous than the grasshoppers, and are innumerable.

  • Isa 14:11
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    11Your pomp is brought down to the grave, and the noise of your viols: the worm is spread under you, and the worms cover you.

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    9I have struck you with blight and mildew: when your gardens, your vineyards, your fig trees, and your olive trees increased, the locust devoured them: yet you have not returned to me, says the LORD.

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    14And the fruits that your soul longed for have departed from you, and all things which were luxurious and splendid have departed from you, and you shall find them no more at all.

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    17And they shall eat up your harvest, and your bread, which your sons and your daughters should eat: they shall eat up your flocks and your herds: they shall eat up your vines and your fig trees: they shall impoverish your fortified cities, wherein you trusted, with the sword.

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    4Though you exalt yourself like the eagle, and though you set your nest among the stars, from there I will bring you down, says the LORD.

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